Why Playing Competitive Football Accelerates Your Child’s Growth

Getting our kids to play competitive football as quickly as possible is one of our main priorities at FAB Football Academy.

We operate out of Golf Course Road in Gurgaon, which has slowly become a hub for competitive grassroots football over the last few years.

At FAB Football Academy, we believe that playing regularly in competitions is the most significant factor contributing to our kids reaching their full potential. 

And we have measured this!

When we evaluate our individual & team performances, we compare the first match of a league to the last match of the league and see exponential growth within our players and team performance.

But when we do the same evaluation for kids who do the bare minimum and only train without playing competitively, the growth is only linear.

Why training alone does not help your child reach their full potential

Good quality Training is essential for growth, but without application in real-life games, even the greatest of training produces mediocre growth at best.

This would be like spending years studying to get an engineering degree and then not pursuing engineering as a career.

If a child spends hours practising his/her favourite skill every day but doesn’t get to use that skill in a competitive game, then they never truly master that skill.

How competitive matches help your child reach their maximum potential

Making consistently good decisions under pressure while having a variety of decisions to choose from is what creates exponential growth.

Competitions provide conditions of pressure where each decision the child makes can have a positive or negative impact on the game. In each game, the kids also have to adapt to different opponents with varying skill sets.

In such situations, kids end up making multiple decisions constantly while learning which ones were good, which were bad, and which were great.

Training alone does not allow for this level of decision-making opportunities under pressure, leading to linear growth as compared to the exponential growth of the combination of training and competition.

This is also why we consistently organise friendly matches for those kids who are just kicking off their football journeys and are not a part of our league and tournament teams. This helps them quickly grow and become ready for the team selection process of the next tournaments.