And I'm not trying to play humble here - this is just simple reality check: level of coaching in Spain is orders higher than in USA. Honestly I think many top level coaches in USA would have hard time to get real coaching job in Barcelona. And not because they don't speak Catalan or Spanish...

MAJORITY OF CLUBS DON'T HAVE OR DON'T EFFICIENTLY IMPLEMENT CURRICULUM BETWEEN ALL THE TEAMS IN THE CLUB. STYLE OF PLAY SOLELY DEPENDS ON VISION OF PARTICULAR COACH.

Coach Tolya talks about danger to be very successful player at young age. What is the biggest deficiency in USA players and why "superstar" status doesn't help in this case. These players learned very early that they can dominate the game by relying on specific feature they developed better than others - speed, strength, technique, field vision, etc. At young stage of their development they advanced in one of these features over the rest of peers and using it successfully all the time and therefore mastering it even more.

To become a pro coach or player requires huge amount of work. It is not just about preparing training session and doing it - it is way more than this! Coaching is very complex type of jobs!

There is no higher reward for me as a youth coach than witnessing success of players with whom I had a fortune to work and spend some time on the fields or/and at SIQ training! So today I will share with you the success of a boy who moved with his family to Barcelona from Colorado.