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[quote=Anonymous]Here is the trajectory of my daughter during her youth career.  Any thoughts on how it compares or what it offers to your own situation? There are some minor details in this that aren't obvious.  She became a GK because nobody else was interested and she was good.  Moral, be careful of playing GK unless you really like it.  We did.  We sought playing time at the highest level of competition we could make during tryouts.  We actually embraced crappy teams, because as a goal keeper you need to have a ton of action (to this day i don't remember a single final game score but a do remember certain plays - i'm also a golfer).  Coaches are a good reason to leave a club, but rarely do you have enough to go on to join a club based on your first impression.  Not enough women coaches for girls.  Driving was a measured sacrific for us when we decided trying out for a national team was our objective. We had one GA offer. But once we played at the higher level (against local ECNL teams) it became a question of which system gave us better access to college coaches (Take a look at colleges that show up to GA events and then look at the same colleges that show up to ECNL events - night and day).  Your investment as a parent is variable, and the cost is too.  I hope this is helpful to other parents to think about how this progression might look like from somebody who has walked the road to this point.  This doesn't capture all the "administrative" work that has to be done regarding the recruiting process (e.g., emails, emails, id sessions, emails).  There can be a bunch of club shit, player shit, parents shit. We haven't found a club that is divorced from the shit (just read this board).  If you took all the money spent on club fees and put them into a brokerage account you would make out WAY BETTER with less soccer memories. Maybe you could invest in more family vacation memories other than hotels in shithole towns in the mid Atlantic.  If you have the means, it may not matter.  I love watching my daughter play - I've spent my hard earned dollars on worse things.

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| Category         | U12        | U13        | U14         | U15         | U16          | U17          |
|------------------|------------|------------|-------------|-------------|--------------|--------------|
| System           | NCSL       | NCSL       | ECNL-R      | ECNL-R      | GA           | ECNL         |
| Club             | Club A     | Club A     | Club A      | Club A      | Club B       | Club C       |
| Position         | Fwd        | Fwd-GK     | Fwd-GK      | GK          | GK           | GK           |
| Team Success     | Mid        | Mid        | Bad         | Mid         | Mid-Bad      | Mid          |
| Competition      | Kickball   | Kickball   | Basic       | Basic       | Organized    | Organized+   |
| Playtime (min)   | 90          | 90          | 90           | 90           | 90            | 45            |
| Chemistry        | Baseline   | Poor       | Bad         | Bad         | Great        | Great        |
| Head Coach       | Dad        | D3 Coach   | College     | Good Coach  | Same as U15  | Great Coach  |
| GK Coach         | None       | None       | Good        | None        | Bad          | Great        |
| Coach Gender     | Dad        | Old Dude   | Young Dude  | Middle Dude | Middle Dude  | Middle Woman |
| Driving (min)    | 5            | 5            | 5             | 5             | 50             | 20             |
| Investment       | Low        | Low        | Middle      | Middle      | High         | High         |
| Cost             | L Ballsac  | R Ballsac  | R Arm       | L Arm       | L Leg        | R Leg        |
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