This is a GREAT video of the Philadelphia Flyers Development Coach speaking about what values are important for youth coaches, players and parents. He talks about behaviors, the merits of practice, the love of the sport, playing without a coach and focusing on the technical skills of the sport. He really puts things into perspective and echoes many of the points SCA, the coaches and I have tried to stress over the years.

He reiterates many of the SCA values and philosophies about skill development, treatment of referees, repetition of techniques and the desire to compete and have fun doing it. Many of the SCA coaches spent a lot of time playing pickup games, kicking the ball against the wall or with a friend or dribbling around rocks and cones and rehearsing moves or simply taking a ball alone for hours on end and learning about it. The biggest improvement as an individual came through this, not through team training. I use to go with 3 other friends to park and tip over two trash cans so we could score inside them and play for hours. There would be days the score was 30 to 30 before we would break. If you want to improve, make the next step or play soccer after your youth career you need to be playing more soccer than you get at your team training.
 
Create a strong love for the game, a commitment to improving and the technical skills to truly enjoy the game of soccer by training on your own!