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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here- thanks for all the great advice! A few follow up questions:

How do you even know who the coach is going to be for a specific age team? At the tryouts do they tell all the kids to go meet a specific coach and do they get to see that coach in action working with the kids?

In our case, he is more familiar with one club (at least knows a few of the coaches from clinics etc). The other two clubs he would be going in cold not knowing any coaches other than who he meets at tryouts. I picked those other clubs simply because they are reasonably close from a commute perspective.

Also, the tryout times for all these clubs are wildly different (almost a month apart--with his preferred club happening last). I would assume that if he has the good fortune to makes a team that has an earlier tryout, they are not going to allow him to 'sit' on it while he waits for the other tryouts, right? I would assume they might get annoyed that he is considering other clubs at this point?  Or is it well understood that kids try out for multiple? Would you say most kids try out for multiple or is it more rare?

PS-  How do I (as a parent) know if a certain team is ranked (as PP noted below)? Or which coach is better than another? Are there specific coaches who are just 'known' to be good and if so how do I as a parent research that? 
Thanks so much!  [/quote]

If you are trying out for clubs rather than specific teams it's harder to know much about the coach.

Depending on age you can look at league rankings from prior seasons (look at NCSL rankings if it's an NCSL team for example), or for older teams look at GotSoccer rankings. GotSoccer is heavily influenced by tournaments and some teams prioritize tournaments so take it with a grain of salt.
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