[Val]

For me, the U12 skills are that I tend to stop rotating every player into goal (which I do for U8s (and yes we use keepers for U8s) and U10s) and start to specialize a bit. Maybe 2-4 keepers.

Although many on here seem to have kids who can handle this earlier, at least here in my corner of the US, I start working on having my players work on beating someone on the dribble. U10 skill sets for me, again here in the US, are going aggressively to goal and shooting, good first touch and diagonal passing. I do a lot more isolations, 1v1 in a 10 yard channel and my SSGs have multiple goals.

And lastly, U12 is typically when we introduce offsides, so I have to spend a lot of time on field position and spacing. I don't introduce the notion of an off-side trap until the kids have played for a year, so depending on the mix of players I have, that might be U12 or u14.