How to support son re travel soccer tryout

[Anonymous]

OP here. Just got a call. Waitlisted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Just got a call. Waitlisted.

Likely what that means is they do not have enough numbers yet to round out another team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Just got a call. Waitlisted.

I hope he finds a team!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Just got a call. Waitlisted.

I hope he finds a team!

Why didn’t you write a check to the coach? Or go on Cardpool, and purchase gift cards at a discounted rate? Right now PF Chang’s and Cracker Barrel are both running at a 20% discount off face value.

[Anonymous]

Op here. Thank you for all of the suggestions and support. Does not look like travel is going to happen for DS next year, but we are going to move forward with both rec in our country and a player development program in another county nearby and head back to next year's tryouts.

[Anonymous]

Aside-which county offers summer futsal?

[Anonymous]

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RantingSoccerDad wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Contact the coaches and have your son practice with the team/club age-group outside of the tryout process. It's getting late in the spring season so there may not be many of those opportunities left.

I wouldn't sweat it too much. Many clubs will find a team for your player especially after the first check clears.

I really wish we'd stop saying that. At U9 and U10, the bigger clubs typically have twice as many kids trying out as they have spots available. No checks can change the basic math.

Yes, you could race around to a smaller club. Not sure if it's still the case with the merger, but Great Falls used to be pretty wide-open. Maybe Cugini, FCBescola, PAC, some other smaller club. That may or may not work.

But let's quit telling parents, "oh, anyone can play travel." It's not always true.

Not a soccer parent here.

Don't almost all if not all kids who play soccer past 3rd grade play on some sort of travel team, be it a Travel team.or a "travel" team?

No.

No, that’s ridiculous. Rec leagues are huge all the way thru high school.

[Anonymous]

same boat, OP....except worse.

Our DS has been in private lessons 1-2 a week, all with a travel coach for a YEAR, academies, camps, etc....and the coach, mind you he can pretty much put anyone on any level team within reason; informed us he is still not ready or skilled for travel.

He loves soccer and after all the training and practice we can afford the coach told us to not even bother trying out! Maybe in another year or two...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:same boat, OP....except worse.

Our DS has been in private lessons 1-2 a week, all with a travel coach for a YEAR, academies, camps, etc....and the coach, mind you he can pretty much put anyone on any level team within reason; informed us he is still not ready or skilled for travel.

He loves soccer and after all the training and practice we can afford the coach told us to not even bother trying out! Maybe in another year or two...

Perhaps you should take your son to a travel tryout and let them tell you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:same boat, OP....except worse.

Our DS has been in private lessons 1-2 a week, all with a travel coach for a YEAR, academies, camps, etc....and the coach, mind you he can pretty much put anyone on any level team within reason; informed us he is still not ready or skilled for travel.

He loves soccer and after all the training and practice we can afford the coach told us to not even bother trying out! Maybe in another year or two...

Perhaps you should take your son to a travel tryout and let them tell you?

Yeah, I think I'd want a second opinion on that from someone who wasn't receiving year round payment from my family for private lessons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:same boat, OP....except worse.

Our DS has been in private lessons 1-2 a week, all with a travel coach for a YEAR, academies, camps, etc....and the coach, mind you he can pretty much put anyone on any level team within reason; informed us he is still not ready or skilled for travel.

He loves soccer and after all the training and practice we can afford the coach told us to not even bother trying out! Maybe in another year or two...

how old is your kid? why didn't you just take him to a travel tryout? who waits to see what some random guy thinks? I don't put much stock in 'travel coach'. There are some good, some bad, a lot in between.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:same boat, OP....except worse.

Our DS has been in private lessons 1-2 a week, all with a travel coach for a YEAR, academies, camps, etc....and the coach, mind you he can pretty much put anyone on any level team within reason; informed us he is still not ready or skilled for travel.

He loves soccer and after all the training and practice we can afford the coach told us to not even bother trying out! Maybe in another year or two...

how old is your kid? why didn't you just take him to a travel tryout? who waits to see what some random guy thinks? I don't put much stock in 'travel coach'. There are some good, some bad, a lot in between.

Are you sure it's not the travel coach's training ? Our neighbor signed up for training with probably the worst coach in the area. Their strategy was that he was a coach in the Club so, therefore, would help their daughter get a spot. We warned them ahead of time that he was an awful coach (so I can only imagine the training was crap)--our kid had him. Their kid did not make a team either.

[Anonymous]

He loves soccer and after all the training and practice we can afford the coach told us to not even bother trying out! Maybe in another year or two...

OP here - that seems strange - why not just go to the tryout and give it a shot? The coaches gave my son (not me) some feedback during the tryouts (things to try harder at) and I feel like it was a useful experience for him overall.

[Anonymous]

aren't both LMVSC and Alexandria playing in CCL next year? I know Alexandria's red teams are at that age. But, league is irrelevant anyways at this age.

They both are good Clubs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:aren't both LMVSC and Alexandria playing in CCL next year? I know Alexandria's red teams are at that age. But, league is irrelevant anyways at this age.

They both are good Clubs.

oops--wrong thread..sorry