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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well here is a question...why wouldn't a club want to work with the best players?  So parents are complaining that they aren't developing players...well is your kid busting his ass outside of training?  Soccer starts at home.  So if your kid isn't developing, first look at his/her work ethic outside of practice.  Start there.  There is no loyalty to any of this and why should there be?  if you are looking to be the best you can be, you need to work with good coaches, good players, in a supportive club.  Sometimes that just doesn't happen and clubs must recruit not only players but coaches.[/quote]

This is how I look at it too, after years of youth soccer experience.  One of my kids is a very talented player, and was recruited (along with a couple of other kids) by a big club that had a very good coach for the top team.  Some of the parents of kids moved to the B team were extremely disgruntled, but the recruitment ended up being good for everyone--the kids who moved over got to play at a higher level, the top team got better, and the kids moved down thrived with more playing time and leadership opportunities.  The serious ones on the B team moved back up a few years later.  It doesn't always work out so well, but competitive soccer is supposed to be a pyramid, with the better kids moving up.  And contrary to popular wisdom around here, the kids moved up are not always the big early developers.  There are lots of coaches who are good evaluators of talent if you spend time looking and paying attention.

My other kid has a few very good soccer attributes, and a few weaknesses that are obvious to us, and we think the B team is the perfect place for him now.  Every other kid on the B team also has some very obvious (to experienced soccer people) reasons for being on the B team instead of the highly competitive A team, and it's sort of surprising how few of the parents understand why their kid is at they level they are for now, or why some of the kids were moved up or down at the end of the season.  [/quote]

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