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I would like to clarify. I'm not "selecting" a team and picking out the best kids out of a pool of players and submitting a roster. Parents are allowed to "request" a coach if they want. That's how many rec teams have the same team over and over each year and kids can stay together because the parents request the same coach. But yes, if you don't make a request, the org will put kids together best by neighborhood or school to organize a team.

To further clarify. I choose ABGC because it is the most competitive rec from what I've seen. If I wanted to just beat up teams and win games, I could join a couple other clubs rec programs where the kids just stand there and do nothing. That's not even fun. I'm happy to even run 3v3 or 5 v 5 between the kids themselves and not even join a league. But half the fun for the kids is playing together with friends against other teams. The kids already on the team are physically smaller/slower (my son included) and still quite inexperienced themselves. We will not be dominating games. But all these kids do love to play and give great effort. That is all I ask. It will be a mix of learning well and still having fun. I understand it may seem mean of me to ask for kids with some experience but I've done enough coaching of children are afraid of the ball, don't want to play, just want to goof around, or have discipline issues. I want these kids to learn to dribble some, learn a cool move, makes some good passes, learn to move as a team.  Again, I did travel and that comes with its own issues. [/quote]

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