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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are super proud of our little guy for proving himself worthy of an invitation for 9u travel.  He's able to do things with a soccer ball beyond his age.

Here is the question.  He turns 7 on 6/9.  Travel team is 9u. While he won't have many friends on the team, he is excited about playing with highly skilled players.

We are not a soccer family, but are 100% supportive of his love for the game.

The question is whether he is too young or would benefit from another year with his buddies?  Could he do both rec with his friends and travel?  How hard is it for him to do other sports he loves (hoops, baseball)?

To us, he seems really young to specialize but we also realize we don't know that much about soccer development.

Thank you for your advice.[/quote]

A lot of pp have their kids play up a year. We declined it at the time as we see no value in pushing our then turning 7yr into competitive sport. Once you are on a travel team, it gets trickier to try other sport as u want to have rest days in between practice and games for their growing body. It’s a personal choice. [/quote]

He would be only playing up 1 year. This is extremely common at the u9 level. I say yes because the sooner you can get him away from the bad habits he may develop in rec soccer the better. Also it only makes him improve faster to play with older better kids.[/quote]

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