Big ups to Eddie Johnson for developing the next generation. I followed Eddie's career with USMNT and in England with him and Dempsey at Fulham and I don't see many of his peers teaching the next generation the right way. Ray will be a beast. Big Ups all around.
I get there are outliers, and he is def a top top performer for a 10 year old, but most of this video is bogus. 5 hours per day 1on1 training, not playing for a team, "earning everything" as a 10 year old instead of enjoying/playing the game. This isnt it. This isnt a sustainable way to develop players. The best players play all the time. 1on1 training can help, but there needs to be pick up and team trainings/games. look at these drills, it EJ creating the intensity and making every decision for the kid. When. you get close to the pro level, most have these technical skills. Application of these skills + decision making is the difference. This channel really promotes the wrong aspects of youth sports. Im with EJ that winning tournaments, etc is mostly ego driven, but kids should be playing games, formally and informally. You cant just relying on this individual training. EJ should know better. there is so much more to the game than this
@@AndrewS1404 this kid will be good either way, he is an outlier. But this is a terrible way to go about overall player development. This is not the message we should be spreading about youth soccer
The friends that I had go pro and I’m talking about playing for Barcelona, never trained 5hrs a day. 1) from kids they just always seemed good. 2) we played everyday, not training drills, just played with two bricks as nets either side. We had team training two times a week with a game on the weekend that’s it. It was fun seeing them playing in the worldcup. All the kids that went pro ended up by European academies between 14yrs and 16yrs.
This inspired me I am a girl who is trying to be a professional soccer player Raylon Tong Jr you are the best. My name is imitha fono Jr . My favourite play is also Neymar Silva do Santos Jr
Of all so called prodigies whistle has shown this is by far the best he legit should trial for either mls academy or for a European one if the opportunity arises You can never be comfortable in football the talent pool is global everyone is battling for the same spots at the top leagues you get complacent even with talent youre out
Just let him be natural, grow up as a child and learn and train as a child.if he is driven to be a staple, then his star will never shine and he'll end up.playing for second division clubs in Poland or Bulgaria or who knows where. It's good to see his passion and dedication to the game but u less the don't take away the social media hype from him... he'll never meet his idols or play with them.
I will smoke him lol every single time is always the one that are unknown and mostly the pools one that make it pro like now this kid is probably gonna let the social media get his head
With All due respect to the kid. I think most of his skill is doing pullbacks and 1v1 counters. Which is like tricking out a car with a bum engine. It looks nice but your not going anywhere until you fix the vital parts that make the car go. He's talented. That's great but good luck on a field with 10 other players who are trying to find space when you are holding the ball doing 18 moves to beat one person. Anybody can play that way if they put that much focus into that. But ultimately it's much ado about nothing. The kid is doing well because the field is small. But put him on a large field and he's pulling back every three seconds because he's never going to be able to keep good spacing with his team playing like that and he is nowhere near fast enough to outrun a whole team. He's bagging on people wanting fast kids, but I'll take a kid that can make a quick move and be by a defender over a kid doing 19 pullbacks then passing the ball into oblivion because it's impossible for his teammates to know when the ball is coming. And no teammate is going to keep giving you the ball and so they can be ignored while your head is down dribbling. Even in the clip he had two or three easy passes he ignored to do the tricks he did. His talent is predicated on the defender stabbing, which will happen less and less the better his competition gets. Sooner or later he's going to have to change the way he plays to a style that allows the players around him to have chemistry and rhythm. If he keeps doing that, he's going to be in a world of trouble because every coach is going to tell him to get the ball out faster and push the pace. His teammates pushing forward while he's pulling back is going to be a problem constantly until he finds himself wondering why the game doesn't seem as easy to him anymore. It's because these coaches are spending all week teaching these kids to play 1v1 in a 11v11 sport. So all these kids are trying to make clips for Instagram instead of learning when to pass and when to dribble. So in the end they focus on dribbling moves that are useless when most people can do one simple move and get the same result as your five pullbacks and flicks. So I'll take the guy who can cut on a dime and out run four defenders, over a kid doing 19 pullbacks to inevitably end up in a trap that leads to a turnover because his teammates have no way of knowing where they need to be in order to play alongside him.
Is this the kid who went to Supercopa it’s Alphaforms and lost to PST in Dallas cuz I played against this kid and we beat this kid he got locked down by me and my boy Elliot
My opinion on this kid is he is good for sure but keep in mind at his age he needs to get a bit stronger also he's playing in America and ummm... well most Americans aren't great at footie but anyways back to the point he has a good totch and good pace and a alright bribbling technique for his age but if he became a winger he would have to start to learn how to defend and track back to pass to cross to have good chemistry with other players the problem with one and one training is you won't become a team player or let's say striker he would have to get stronger and have better power in his shots and will have to learn to become a potcher
He’s still very very young, if you watch some videos of the top players today they were playing just like him doing tricks and taking the whole team. He will learn the proper play style with age but he has the talent that you can’t teach.
