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[quote=Anonymous]My son is on a U10 travel team and he's been training almost daily along with having a personal coach since summer.  He was suppose to move up to the higher level U10 team this spring, but a day ago we heard from the high tier coach his current coach was very unhappy to hear he wanted to leave and made a fuss about it.  So, they are going to leave him on the current team which is well below is skill level.

I've never seen my son so unhappy.  It's borderline depression.  I'm all for facing real life and realizing life isn't fair.  In fact, I'm the parent who makes sure he realizes it.  But, this really hit him hard.  He trains so much with the hopes of getting moved up because his current team has horrible chemistry and they don't even practice outside of team practice (they don't care).  A portion of the players don't even show up to practice or games and the coach doesn't do anything.  It's a mess.

As a parent, even though this is good for him overall growing up it sucks to see him so sad.  Normally, he's always upbeat and now he doesn't even smile.  It's like someone sucked the life out of him.  I am proud he's trained so hard.  Even during winter break he didn't want to go on a trip.  Instead he went to soccer camp.  Now, he has to deal with a team he hates for another 3-4 months.  I just feel sad for him.  I'm tempted to speak with his current coach about this, but really 50/50 on getting too involved.

Talent and skill wise he 100% is able to perform well if moved up.  But, he's the best player on his current team so his coach doesn't want to lose him.  I think that's selfish (and I used to coach high school sports along with 3 youth sports).  Should I speak with the coach or leave it alone?  [/quote]

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