RE: Story of a ball hog, and how it didn't help him in football / soccer at all

he stood out alright and at a young age this was in a good way because most of the opposition is pretty terrible and is only there because their parents make them go. Things get a lot more competitive later though and I used Kevin as an example later on in life when I did some coaching myself. It was always a joy when the kids would actually listen and our team would do much better by utilizing all 11 players rather than just always passing it to the "good guy" on the team. I can vividly recall a team where I basically had to force these two "star players" to learn the power of a cross and finding open space and how they had grins on their faces when my tactics actually worked and worked really well.

I think they had never been taught this up to that point and hopefully they went on to do great things.