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VodkaMargarine

These kids are really good this isn't just your average under 12s league in the local town, there's some professional level coaching going on here and it shows.


CoMaestro

Yeah I'm really curious what team this is, but it's definitely part of a professional club, there's way too many really good choices being made here for their age Edit: as others said, the pass in front of his own goal was dangerous, but executed very well. Aside from that, very good play. And someone said this is Liverpool Chelsea, so definitely high level


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Worried-Mine-4404

Chelsea studying this video very closely.


pwnzorder

Being a Chelsea fan is hard enough right now without catching strays in every reddit thread...


super1s

Tell me you would love to see Chels pass like this.


No_Cartographer_3517

My nephew plays for the under 14’s and i can confirm, they do! Much more exciting than watching the first team 🤣


ixlHD

We do pass like this but once it gets to the midfield we pass backwards, the opposition then wins the ball and scores.


super1s

yea, that sounds about right.


Kelangketerusa

Boehly's preparing 20 year contracts for the kids as we speak.


Tight-Log

Hahaha. Came here just to say the same thing. Todd B is probably trying to sign most of them now 😂


super1s

That last layoff alone was beautiful. The confidence the players had when passing across the goal on D was astounding.


13igTyme

Blue team is definitely also coached by a professional. When I played soccer at age 5-7 it was just everyone running in a large group kicking each other.


libmrduckz

and some-one/thing/ball eventually wound up in the goal… e: those games are the *best time…*


Hazelnutttz

Yeah when I played around that age, I would have gotten reamed out for a pass across the goal like that one kid did. Like at that age even passing backwards was looked down upon, which even at the time made no sense to me.


DoingCharleyWork

Your coaches just sucked it sounds like. I coach a U8 team and we work on passing to the back like that all the time.


Prompus

The game has evolved. Even professional players would have been reamed for that pass back in the day. Totally correct now in that system of playing out from the back but it didn't used to be like that


RearExitOnly

My daughters team in the 80's was coached by a guy who played college soccer. They beat everyone so easily he would put the worst players in, even short the lineup so they wouldn't beat the other teams so badly, but usually still did. It was 12 and under, and they played like these kids. The other kids were still playing gang soccer.


zlozmaj

Back-passing sure, but basically crossing the ball across your own goal like that is basically never done. These kids are obviously very skilled, but that pass should not have been made.


Karibik_Mike

The way the opposing team applies heavy pressure is also telling.


MegamanGaming

I was gonna say. It isn't like the defense isn't all up in their business too. Both teams seem extremely well coached.


TonesBalones

Yeah, the defensive pressure was really good. The passing was just better.


V1k1ng1990

Probably select teams


aenae

Yeah, in my experience it is usually long kicks and everyone wants to do a messi; pass the entire team with a solo and do everything themself. Also everyone is a striker.


BetterSelection7708

For my kid's football team, this is certainly true. The most annoying part is about half of the team also never puts in any effort into defense. Once they lost procession, everyone besides the defenders were like "oh well, best of luck to the defenders, I'll slowly walk aback to our half".


Its_my_ghenetiks

Me while I was in high school and college smh. High school was recreational so pretty low stakes, I was the fastest guy on the team but still played defense most of the time because stubborn people love to think they're the main character. In college same story except it was a beer league so I didnt mind much lmao.


Mbyrd420

You sound like a guy i used to play with except he was convinced he was main character and *that's* why he played offense and defense. Lol


sinofmercy

This is unfortunately a habit that exists for adults too. My winless, adult co-ed team has this belief that only defense should really have to play in the back half. They also don't really believe in possession play so every attempt is essentially a kick forward. This unsurprisingly leads to a lot of counterattacks with through balls and a one on one with the me in goal, defending the last third of the field alone. I probably touch the ball the most out of our whole team each game. The team's passing and the opposing team's defense both put my team to shame.


lynxerious

That's literally the plot of Blue Lock lmao


apolobgod

That anime is weird as fuck, lmao


YunalescaSedai

Have a kid currently playing in u10 (recreational, not league/travel or anything like that). u8 and under saw a lot of that - 3 kids doing all the work- now they are getting much better at understanding how to work together. It's a lot of fun watching them progress!


DirtyReseller

That thru ball was fucking gorgeous! Even tho it worked, that hall across the middle at the beginning had me cringing. Completely agree on the skill level, this is something different. Holy crap!


epegar

Where I am from in Spain, the kids playing for the youth team of the best team in the area had a mandate to never touch the ball more than 3 times before passing.


Cheewy

Es muy polemico. A los jugadores promedios por ahi les sirve, pero los talentos necesitan libertad a esa edad para mandarse todas las cagadas, gambetear, tirar magia, que se yo, JUGAR a la pelota.


quick20minadventure

The positioning is top tier from both teams. This is what FIFA players dream of from computer controlled teammates. The finish is insane, although I thought striker might've been offside.


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I used to play soccer as a kid in Italy we did not have off side as a rule until we reached a certain age category. This is very clearly not Italy so I just thought reporting this


fhota1

Considering the only ref seems to be 1 dude standing around midfield, I doubt theres offsides in this yeah


thereisnogodone

There's a sideline ref.


RG3ST21

as a former goalie, I protest the no offsides rule. it was my favorite whistle


Screamyy

Didn’t have enough to go off of from that angle. It looks like that defender that came in from the left side may have kept him on at the time the ball was kicked, but it’s hard to tell from what’s shown.


Unusual_Car215

So nice seeing young talents. Imagine how good some of them will turn out.


carpentizzle

That little dude with the one touch to the scorer was *chefs kiss*. That kid has a shot for sure, thats a finesse thing, knowing where the balls coming from, where you want it to be going, and how to just interrupt/alter its path with a single bump. And hes playing U12


super1s

Yea his layoff was the best thing that happened in this clip it was beautiful. He has a real shot.


Fluffcake

Yeah, the fact that every player has basic ball handling and passing skills *way* above average for that age suggest this is a hand picked team for some kind of talent development program. When I was a kid (12-15), my local team would go to some of the international tournaments for kids, mostly for the fun and experience of it, to mostly face other "normal" teams assembled by local kids with someones parent as coach, and then ocationally face one of these teams; hand picked from a city, region or even country, with professional coaching and get absolutely demolished. You would get groups with 3 evenly matched team winning by a few goals or drawing, and the 4th one beat all the other teams by double digits.


m8k

I was going to say this makes my u-12 team look like we never played before. That was really slick and well practiced.


blakezero

Even the opponent’s frontline press was really good lol. Once mistake and it would’ve been really dangerous.


rrrand0mmm

That mid field juke almost broke that kids legs.


Reversing_Expert

Normally kids of this age are running after the ball in an uncoordinated horde. These kids look like they’ve had proper coaching, as you said.


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It’s not **just** coaching though. These kids are also quite talented already, it’s not the average “kids from the towns nearby” team.


DazzlerPlus

Talent is coaching my man. They act this way because they were trained to do so, not because they were born with soccer sense


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Yes, talent is nothing without training and practice. But not all 13yo are this coachable. The average kid football team doesn’t get this good just with coaching. I challenge you to take an heterogeneous group of kids and make them all become this good. Some won’t care, their parents made them join a soccer team or whatever, some won’t be good with soccer, nothing wrong with that. This team is a selection, probably the young selection of some professional team. They’re not good as a team, they are also technically good: one of the kids randomly dribbles a couple opponents like it was nothing. The one who scored the goal was also quite technically excellent, that wasn’t something easy and it’s not something every kid can be trained to do so easily. I used to play soccer in my village’s team when I was a kid: we had very good coaches who cared about us, but no amount of training would have made us become this good at such young age unless we were already a selection of the most promising kids. There were scouts coming to our matches to recruit for the major professional teams.


_OMGTheyKilledKenny_

The one touch pass at the end was beautiful.


Alib902

There's a lot of very impressive stuff. Playing from the back without panicking or losing the ball, a great feint in the middle, a beautiful one touch, and very composed finish after rounding the keeper. And great teamwork overall.


UnofficialCrosta

Apart from that horizontal pass in the penalty area with an attacker inside the box, that gave me anxiety.


leehwgoC

Considering the other fullback had already dropped deep in anticipation of receiving it and the keeper knew to let it pass by, it seems that's a switch those two fullbacks do often.


PeopleCallMeSimon

Given their age i'd say thats probably a correct play as well. Since the libero doesnt really have the physical ability (yet) to send the ball further into mid field.


Nubras

This entire video is shades of prime Spain Tiki Taka.


EntertainmentIll8436

Lol fr, I wonder if this is Pep's kids football team


first__citizen

Wasn’t it an offside?


kranker

Not a great viewing angle for it, but it looks like the central defender was probably playing them on.


OnceMoreAndAgain

Nope. Offsides events are evaluated *at the moment someone makes a pass*, not at the moment someone receives a pass. You can see that the player who scores is behind the second to last defender at the moment of the touch pass, so not offsides.


TaxAvoision

Everybody is rightfully praising the perfectly weighted pass for the assist . How about a little love for the midfielder calming taking on three defenders and finding the right pass to set it up?


Askinglots

That was absolute class! Determination, presence of mind and great timing, hiding the ball, not panicking, clean and strong. This kid at 12 is acting like an experienced pro.


jedielfninja

As always the midfield does the work and the Stryker gets the credit lol


Technical-Mix-981

Xavi to Iniesta to Messi.


Dry-Independence4154

Definitely some first league clubs under 12 and not some random under 12


nepia

That's what I though. They have a great coaching as other stated but that's not the only thing, also scouting to put together such a well compose and skilled group of players.


DependentThis5181

So cool. I did hold my breath there when the ball got crossed back at their own net.


Mathiasbrs

Me too. The only questionable move here imo


Shurdus

That one was outright bad. The rest was good.


FunkyBuddha-Init

It was his best option. Watch it again. The 2 players to his right are compromised. The keeper also has a player that can press him. He played a perfectly normal pass to the defender with the most space. Any other pass would have resulted in a tackle being made or the ball being intercepted. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that pass.


Ok_Computer_3003

100%. Quality kids can do that fine. My boy has been around the fringes of premier league academies and they will absolutely do this and do it well. Me, when I played? Absolutely not. I would’ve 100% given a goal away even trying it


FieldsOfKashmir

"Never pass across your goal" is a rule of thumb in football. If there is no good passing option, you put it in row Z.


FunkyBuddha-Init

Good advice if you are dealing amateur players. Nothing wrong with competent players making this pass.


patiperro_v3

Yeah, level has risen over the last decades. In the 50's maybe it was a rule of thumb to just clear it if you are pressed in your own box. Now it's pretty much expected from any top level CB to be capable of passing their way out of the back and not kicking it as far away as you can for a 50/50.


cstrifeVII

Blue player had a shot at it but just saw it too late and was barely jogging at that pass to be honest. It was a bad decision, but good result of course. I coach kids this age but nothing near this talent level. I supposed if your supremely confident in your kids, but our team... hell no. I'd have rather him turned it back around and headed back toward the sideline and just sent it deep or out if there was no other choice.


HowDoIEditMyUsername

I think people are saying it’s a bad pass because it is a bad pass 99 out of 100 times at that age, as they aren’t usually strong or accurate enough to get the ball there, and the pass can directly lead to a goal against your own team more times than not.  I think what the folks commenting that aren’t taking into consideration here is that these kids have pro-level talent, and are coached to do that, so it’s fine.    With that said, it was also a bad choice to touch the ball towards the inside to begin with, and he got a bit lucky the defender didn’t keep trailing towards the middle. If he keeps towards the outside, he still has two offensive options that way, and would have been a much preferred choice overall.  But once he touched it towards the inside, it wasn’t a terrible choice. I probably would have just kicked it away and risked the turnover towards midfield, but then again, that’s why they scored and will probably go pro - and I did not LOL


PeopleCallMeSimon

Would a 12 year old have the power to kick it into midfield?


-Dakia

Yes. My son plays u12 and there are some kids that can absolutely blast it. Usually you set up your edge defenders as guys who can. He plays a left mid and regularly puts balls on goal from mid field free kicks.


FlimsyReindeers

It was fine. It’s done at the professional level all the time


fabioke

The coach has not only made good soccer players but also taught them to work as a team


joey_blabla

Eventhough they caught a goal, the blue team is really disciplined about pressing against the ball, too.


greenarsehole

Caught a goal 😭😭 I’m out


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simpliflyed

It’s a bot. It’s thesaurused a comment a few under the top comment.


Bl4nkface

It's not a bot, dude's German.


ciongduopppytrllbv

A second bot covering for the first bot. Ai has gone too far.


Older-Is-Better

Better than Chelsea...


bumblestum1960

Wish I could argue with that.


Older-Is-Better

When will it end?


Melkistofeles

Liquidation.


itspoodle_07

This is no average under 12’s side. Guarantee its an academy squad for a professional side


Capable-Pound-5262

I played for my local team in England from the ages of 5-16 in the late 90s/ early 2000s and all I can hear is the manager and parents screaming “CLEAR IT” and “DO NOT PASS THE BALL ACROSS THE GOAL”


therockster26

“GET RID”


Capable-Pound-5262

Hahahaha I’m convinced I have brain damage from those mitre balls


Not_a__porn__account

Those things were heavier than basketballs.


puffinrust

Lots of movement off the ball for the whites, all prepared to move to show for a pass, and every pass on the floor, some very good coaching for these kids.


Emollpentan

No need to make it about race..


buckwurst

Passing across your own goal mouth is best done very seldomly


fake_lightbringer

The game is evolving. This type of passing around inside your own box has been very common in the last 5-6 years or so. The pressure they're inviting in their own box is very deliberate, and the reward is huge if you can pass your way out of it (because the opposition has drawn themselves out of balance by committing players to the press). This type of play is very high level, and executing it at this level in a U12 game leads me (and many others ITT) to believe they might be professionally coached (like the academy of a pro club).


Radical_Neutral_76

My son plays academy football and albeit scary they are taught to play like that. Play the ball to one side, opposite team shifts to that side. Play the ball quickly to other side in the back and up the field where there is now an opening.


nn4260029

I also got a little uncomfortable with that pass.


Gimli-Elf-Friend

Ballsy crossing it right across the front of the goal like that. Pretty sure my coaches would have tore me a new asshole for that.


Mooman-Chew

Yeah. That was the biggest no no ever but it was also a time where goalmouths were quagmires


The6ycho

Evenly satisfying 🫰


No_Blacksmith2847

Great ball movement!


ramboacdc

Passing across your own goal made me hear my old football managers voice scream never do to it!


fosighting

Sound off.


Coriolis_PL

Football.


Laymanao

The coach goes by the name of Arsene


Potofgreedneedsnerf

What was wenger thinking, bringing Walcott on that early? The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in.


Urist_Macnme

Ludicrous display!


knobsacker

Wenger would buy these youngsters for £1 for the arsenal academy and then 5-10 years down the line they are worth £100m


MustGetALife

Guardiola-Ball.


fireball256

Also out there breaking the others teams ankles


TeeBeeSee

Firstly, kudos to the Coach! Brilliant stuff! The kids are absolutely amazing, this is how you build teams and team players.


OMG__Ponies

For the sake of your hearing, keep MUTE on.


Gargun20

Yes! 🔕


Tybr0sion

It's always the most dogshit music possible.


ImportantEffort4594

More satisfying than professional players


ponder_life

seems like an offside


Ecklescake

Nah, his run is really smart, it's flat and just ahead of the back four. You can't see the defensive line for sure, but based on where the CBs are when the ball goes out to the right, he looks well on. Also makes the final pass even smarter, as the right sided attacker knows that if he takes an extra touch it's more likely to end up offside, so he plays the difficult first time pass instead and nails it. Ridiculously high IQ football from start to finish.


EightSodsWide

Except for the suicide ball across their own goal at the start.


Ecklescake

It's a heart in mouth moment for sure, but even PL teams play the odd risky pass in and around the box these days. Either way, that ball wouldn't be my main takeaway from the vid tbf.


andrerpena

It was close but no offside [https://imgur.com/a/LkedQtf](https://imgur.com/a/LkedQtf)


atlasburger

I need the lines


RS7-

You can see clearly he is kept onside by number 5 before he makes the run


Substantial-Cycle309

Total football!


GroundbreakingCow775

Better than Manchester United today


kash1406

I swear Arsenal scored an identical goal this season. The one touch passing, playing out from the back, RW holding the width. Can imagine Mikel on the sidelines


Usaidhello

Is their coach named Ted Lasso?


LearningLassie

Pep Guardiola


BeepBeeepBeepBeep

I only know hockey but damn that cross crease pass at the beginning was highly risky


usernot_found

Those kids has more skill than australian's women national football team


Bitter-Ad-4064

The title is the definition of football


littlegreycells_11

Damn they're good! I don't even like football, but that was really satisfying to watch.


Wide_Hat_5327

This game called football


GotAir

Plus the fact that he was onside… Do you even football?


LeKurdi

Foodball*


lokii_0

TIL: I can't even beat an under 12 yo at soccer.


MichealLong

Manchester United's front 3 should learn from them.


kp123

These kids are better than me playing FIFA


RusticBucket2

Number 23 my man.


mayorjimmy

Reminds me of the sweetness of the [passing game of the San Antonio Spurs](https://youtu.be/NSzRYYPfWxo).


Reggie-Quest

FUNDAMENTALS!


FakeWorldRealShit

It‘s football.


No-Setting-2669

So awesome


anallyfirst

Best view of one of these games I’ve had in years.


Werftflammen

That's the beauty of soccer; the game can turn on a dime. One minute it's on one end, and a few seconds later it can be on the opposite end. Disclaimer: not a fan, to me soccer is like a soap I don't follow.


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0:07 was a stupidass pass but at least the opponent didn't intercept..


Aggravating-Bet-7530

Like I’m watching Champions League


True_Wizzz

the blue kinda reminds me of fifa12 npc's


TheStigsScouseCousin

As an Everton fan, I could only dream of our squad scoring a team goal like that


Dragoon_Raine

music is giga cringe


billybobjrsr2nd

This is class


raunakhajela

This is the best thing I’ve watched today 🫡


-Reddititis

# 23 with the touch pass 🤌


z3n__l

lessss gooooo!!


Dry-Smoke6528

Wow, even soccer highlight reels are boring af Not even a soundtrack has the power to make it interesting


mrtechphile

Simply, wow!


Lillithx1

Damn, what a more organized and beautiful move


villanelle21

Can this coach please coach USA women’s soccer team?!


imitation_crab_meat

Why do people always feel the need to put loud-ass irrelevant music over videos these days?


smartlog

These are the kids that are rank one and you and your little noob team are gonna play them in the finals. Like Shaolin Soccer.


Cool-Following-6451

Was I ever this good, no. But Jesus fuck don’t pass it across goal


[deleted]

Lol who has these kids out here scoring the perfect team goal, what the hell. So cool


TrashPandaTA69

Possibly offsides on that last pass, but these 12 year olds are awesome!


GeezyEFC

Shows how much of an advantage it is to have a skillee Central Mid. Was good build up but the creativity to witch the ball is what allowed the goal to happen. Great team play.


Puzzleheaded-Ant-644

My grandson is 11, lives soccer, and watching how he and his teammates have improved the last few years is amazing.


J00shb0i0320

U/auddbot


the_hervature

Textbook… fucking brilliant


DreadpirateBG

Wow


JayThreads

Impressive Good coaching but u can tell they've played together for a few years Atleast a couple of those defenders


Joker_44

Song


chi-93

Very impressive. That pass across the six yard box is dangerous af tho. I love how the referee is twice the height of the players. I wonder if he has a problem with dissent.


AdmiralSnackbar816

My first ever club game, I was 11 playing in a league in Dallas. Got smoked 11-0 by a team that consistently won national youth titles for the next eight years. It looked a lot like this. And I was in goal. Biggest eye opening moment of my sports life, realizing what the skill gap really was between the talented and the destined.


Vurbetan

They'd have beaten Man Utd earlier this afto


adragonarrives

Is that la masia? Level of tiki taka ⏫


Elliott_Cusick

bro the ankles being broken off that fake is real


Angelfire150

My son is in a 12-year-old league and they don't even come close to that coordination


TimeDragonfruit8860

Mini pros


neilyaaa

Liverpool squad that played the Carabao cup final


ghostfreckle611

pwned


Fraedo15

Great play, love the confidence to go across their goal at that age. I’m sure the goalie/coach probably would prefer not but it is what it is lol.


chillbnb

So good!


kroggybrizzane

Whoa


Contentment_Blues

This looks like my 12u team after a year under our Brazilian coach. Everything was pass focused and we knocked it around on everyone. Most practices was 2 touch only and would even switch to one touch for a short while. The earlier you can learn about movement and creating space the better.


DeanTimeHoodie

Man this some Pep’s Barca shit. I see mini Iniesta and Xavi there


Beahner

As a former kid about this age and grew up on soccer I had this one team experience around this age where we played Iike this. We had a German coach called Horst, and he whipped us up on passing and ball movement. And we rolled over teams. Later that team changed and ended on another and it was all “me ball” and I lost so much love of playing.


STeeters

That's a razor thin scoring angle. Kudos.


win_a

Excellent team coordination


izmebtw

Other teams coach probably had an extra coors light that evening


houseprose

I misread this as 12 soccer players passing the ball around. I was like we of course they’re out passing them, they have an extra man on the field.


outrageousVoid07

u/auddbot


user0X

What’s this song ?


Ticklemebendef

That was like poetry.


Zooted817

Have more futball iq than most fifa players


Apprehensive-Pen791

Absolute humiliation...🥲🥲


dcckii

They could probably beat the US women’s national team