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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d appreciate recommendations for a trapped 8th grade player.  My son plays for a small club (one team per age group) where most players will be 9th graders in the fall.  It’s unclear if the club will have a fall season for the small number of trapped kids left behind.  Even they do, I worry that the 9th graders will (understandably) no show for practice and perhaps skip games since they are also playing high school soccer.  Practicing with the younger age group team is probably an option but seems less than ideal for development.

I recall seeing some larger clubs form an 8th grade team for the fall season with trapped players from various teams across different levels of the club.  Any experience with those teams and whether they are open to outside players for the trapped fall season?

Any general advice on how best to navigate the trapped 8th grader situation as we approach spring tryouts would be appreciated.  
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The first thing I would do is to cry about the lost 3 months that he will just never get back in his life. The developmental gains those players getting their HS season in while your kid simply rots on the vine and forgets all of the last 10 years of soccer will be irrecoverable. Simply put, its over, he will never be the same player again and will be forever left behind because of those three months.

Or, you could chill out, enjoy the rest, do something else and let his body recover. I don't think I could eye roll this post harder if I tried. So much silly, misplaced worrying over nothing. [/quote]

The saddest part about these paranoid trapped player parents, is the fact that they have multiple options for their DC to get in quality development work over the 3 months that's much better than what the HS kids are getting.[/quote]

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