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[quote=Anonymous]Nobody seems to be answering your question, which I think is essentially:  Where else can a good player play, when they are at a big club that will lock their player card, even at a young age, and the regular season is not offering them enough of a challenge?

1. Ask about guest-playing one or even two years up with her home club, especially on the second or even third team.  Most clubs are very happy to accommodate that in some way, for top players.  Playing against bigger, stronger players can be a good challenge, even if the overall skill level is lower.

2.  Futsal.  There are tons of options, including year-round; usually does not conflict with the player card and can help with speed of game play.

3.  Organizing 3v3 and 5v5 teams.  You can Google and see lots of options.  This requires some coordination by the families, and the tournaments can be hit-or-miss - you can have all easy opponents and no competitive games, or you can get combined with an older age group that actually has strong teams and get annihilated.  Both are bad.  But there can also be fun, competitive days with tons of touches.

All that said, I do agree with other posters that the games aren't actually that important for development at the young ages.  It's best to spend less time schlepping to games, and more time training on the ball.[/quote]

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