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[quote=Anonymous]You are putting the cart in front of the horse a little bit at this point.  But, my DD also did tryouts a year ahead of time.  However, she was 8 at the time and she loved soccer. She was excited and pumped up for tryouts, especially as one of her rec teammates wanted to do it also.

I will say two things:
#1) I would just go to tryouts and see how it goes and if you even get an offer.  There is a chance your kid wont be pumped up about it and a chance they won't receive an offer.  I have seen young kids just be too far behind to even compete with the other kids at tryouts.  It was obvious that it was not a good fit as the kid was just too little and not skilled enough.

#2) If you do get an offer, you will have to be ok with dedicating a lot of time and money that possibly will not well spent.  What I mean is that you will most likely be on the bottom team, which may lose a lot.  And since your kid is so young, they will experience burn out from 3x weekly practices, games and tournaments.  You will have to be ok with them probably not wanting to go to practice quite often to do other kid stuff.

But yeah, if you decide to start a year early and trying to make a higher team is important to you, you will probably see great growth that is not apparent until the following year when your kid plays at their appropriate age level.   Also, I will say the best young kids who play now either started very early and/ or they were just natural athletes that would be good at all team sports.  There are no walk-ons without significant soccer training on the top teams in the U-little ages.

The other thing to consider is his B-Day?  Most likely, all leagues will move to School-Year groupings -vs- Birth-Year groupings starting in the 26-27 season.  So, while he would be young for his Birth-Year team now, he would transition into being one of the older kids on his School-Year team.  And that would most likely prove to be a big boost to his relative ability level... so there is a bright-light at the end of your tunnel in that regard.

My DD started a year early, because she loved it and was good at it already and we are committed to the resources that are required to play at a higher level at the older years.   Attempting to do what it takes to play at the higher levels, is an endurance task that will take a decade to complete.

-Good luck either way![/quote]

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