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[quote=Anonymous]A year ago I would have said to go for it. Our son was in the same boat at tryout time last year (he’s currently u11). He started u10 50% in goal but by the end of the year he rarely saw the field. Several coaches talked up his natural ability in the goal and he seemed to love it. Unlike your son, he wasn’t as strong on the field mostly due to lack of aggressiveness. He was offered a spot this year that required him to specialize. We encouraged our son to go elsewhere because we worried about specializing too soon and had already seen a decline in field skills as goalie time increased over the previous u10 year. But he wanted to play for that team and made it clear that he wanted to be a goalie and was quitting soccer if we didn’t let him play. He said he enjoyed the goal and felt intense stress and anxiety as a field player. He seemed to have a good year and I thought we had made a good choice until our son received a very negative player eval from the coach a few weeks ago that made it clear he won’t be invited back. So now my son will have to find a new team and he hasn’t played anything but goalie for a year. The coach kept him in goal for every practice. And guess what? Now he says he doesn’t want to be a goalie exclusively. We have an uphill battle finding a team. I wish I had honored his wish to pursue goalie but with a coach who had a broader view of development.  [/quote]

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