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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“they love the sport, they have fun with it, it is great exercise and they like being on a team” these are the reasons kids play rec soccer. Perhaps adjust your expectations and let them play rec again. [/quote]

I'm the poster who wrote the long post above, and in our experience, rec soccer just didn't scratch the itch.  At the U11 level, my kid played one season of both travel and rec, and they're just totally different experiences.  Travel was 9 v. 9 whereas rec was still 5 v. 5 or so, with much less specialization at positions and **much** less passing.  My kid could just dribble up the field past all the defenders multiple times a game and score.  (And my kid is a B team travel player.). He would try to pass, but there was no one watching and ready to receive the pass.  (He is a CM who loves tiki-taka, and rec is basically the opposite of that.)

Practices were run by a really well-meaning parent coach, who has coached my kids multiple times over the years, but who just doesn't know all that many drills.  Plus, the kids are **not** all there for the love of the game.  Many of them are there because their parents want to get them out of the house and getting some exercise.  So, during drills, they're goofing off, wrestling with each other, etc.

Also, rec just doesn't have nearly the fun team dynamic that travel has.  In our neighborhood, you're playing with the same old kids you go to school and aftercare with, and there aren't any tournaments or special team lunches.  Probably the number 1 reason I keep my kid in travel soccer is so that he learns teamwork dynamics, and he just wasn't getting that from eight weeks of one practice and one game per week.

Anyway, there's that other thread about whether there's a need for something between rec and travel, and I tend to agree there is (though I don't like that poster's model specifically).  For the moment, I think we've found the sweet spot with a less intense travel team.[/quote]

Op here thanks for articulating this. I would be ok with rec but my did really doesn’t want to do it. I guess the answer here is that we really need to find a better fit travel team. [/quote]

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