What Ricardo Pepi can (and should) learn from Kobra

Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports A youth coach on Twitter recently offered the following player development maxim with regard to goal-scorers:

Beware of a youth player that can only score one way. The player that scores all their goals only on breakaways at 12-years-old won’t score many at 15-years-old. Develop players that can score multiple ways in different scenarios.

That interested me because (1) it’s a simple, useful screen to pass young strikers through as an indicator of potential, and (2) a lot of people think the addition of Franco Jara could be transformative for FC Dallas’ striker prospect Ricardo Pepi. Maybe the expected growth of Pepi comes in the form of him adding new ways of…