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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know this will be flamed. I have a 3.5 year old who is oddly good at soccer in my opinion. He kicks the ball harder than my 2nd grader. He is also faster. He is doing a soccer shots program and the dads there make comments about how they’ve never seen a kid like him. I think they’re probably just making conversation, I have no idea what signs I might see that my kid has a real gift. Can anyone whose child grew up to be a college soccer player, etc tell me what their kid looked like at 3.5?[/quote]

I will both answer you and simultaneously give you the eyeroll you expect.  My son was recruited to play D1 soccer, but ended up playing a diffferent D1 sport.  (He just graduated in May).  He started playing soccer when he was about 2.  Organized soccer around 4.  He was always very aggressive in playing--not physically necessarily, but always had to score.  That really manifested early when some kids were still more interested in watch the planes or birds than in the game.  It levelled off and changed throughout the years; puberty is a big game changer in terms of skill.  The one constant was (is) that any sport he plays, he's surprisingly good quickly.  Skiing, golf, tennis, riding, hockey, football, basketball, surfing, diving, whatever.  It's a long list because we let him play or take lessons in whatever he wanted.

DS2 is the same and is headed to play another D1 sport next fall.  Same story.  No pushing from us, just letting them play and develop, and not fixating on any one sport.  He had 2 offers (in different sports I mean, not two total).

The relative skill may come and go, but just let him be and enjoy all sports.  He'll get to where he's meant to be.[/quote]

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