How to support son re travel soccer tryout

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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...

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.

The coach is legit and has clout with the club. We did do a try out at another club and it was not good. It was not travel but an academy hybrid style with teams. We thought he had a shot but evidently the mid tier programs are even harder to make at large clubs than we expected. Our little one just may not be an athlete; but he has gotten better at the sport and we are proud of him and his effort.