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[quote=LWMS10]My child is playing their first year of travel soccer at U9. They are on the second team of five at a large club. Because there are so many teams (girls and boys practice at the same time), field space is limited. They scrimmage another team in the age group sometimes, but for the other practices they do drills on a small part of the field. Sometimes they mingle all the teams together and do things in small groups including 4v4 mini scrimmages. My child does very well in these, stealing the ball from and scoring on kids who are on the top team. But they seem to be struggling to adjust to 7v7 on the larger field. The team overall is not doing well and I suspect other kids are having similar struggles.

Is it common for U9 players to struggle making this jump to the larger field? Other teams we've played seem to be doing a much better job with it. Do most clubs around here struggle to get adequate field space, or do some have more regular access to a full sized field for practices? It seems like getting more time on a standard size field would help, but maybe I am wrong. If that doesn't matter, what kinds of things should be done at practice to help prepare for games? I am trying to figure out whether my child is having a particular difficulty with this, whether some kids/teams initially struggle with this but it gets better with time, or whether maybe the coaching at this club is not supporting development in this way.[/quote]

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