Soccer beyond rec without travel

[flower]

My son (age 11) has been playing rec soccer for years and would now like to be part of a team that is a little more advanced. His friends who are at a similar level are on or joining travel teams, but it unfortunately isn't going to work for our family to do the travel part of travel soccer. Any suggestions on how he could do soccer at a higher level than rec without having games that are far from DC and with practices in or near NW DC? Thank you!

[Wishiwasatthebeach]

You should be able to find a ppa team that practices near you that fits that bill.

[Mannschaft]

The travel part of travel soccer in DC is minimal. Half the games are home games (about a 15 min drive for us), most of the other games are within 30 minutes, and there might be a handful of games per year that are an hour away. This is NCSL.

[anonimouswon]

flower wrote:My son (age 11) has been playing rec soccer for years and would now like to be part of a team that is a little more advanced. His friends who are at a similar level are on or joining travel teams, but it unfortunately isn't going to work for our family to do the travel part of travel soccer. Any suggestions on how he could do soccer at a higher level than rec without having games that are far from DC and with practices in or near NW DC? Thank you!

In some clubs they have some really good rec teams that take soccer seriously being able to compete with C, D level teams. I would approach your club and ask them to put your son on the best rec team at his age group to be with better players so he can improve. I don't know of many other options other than doing travel soccer.

[dcu13]

MSI Classic might be an option.

https://www.msisoccer.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1021046

If you're not familiar with it MSI is a huge intro level club/league in Montgomery County. At older ages they offer rec, travel, and "classic" league which I think is kind of a "rec plus" level.

[flower]

Thank you! I appreciate these suggestions.