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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you do not like playing time why not find a new team at a level you’re kid can start and play at [/quote]

As long as the club will release the player and their money you are good to go. It’s that last part that throws up a roadblock.  Sure your kid is playing 15 mins or so a game but if we release them and let you sign up with another club we don’t want to give you any portion of your money back because we budgeted based on keeping those funds. In short we put your kid on the team to get your money.  If the club gives the money back (or a proportionate figure) and releases the kid then fine.

Why should a 13 year have to wait half a year to play?

Now, in reality, most clubs and coaches are good about playing time so if you really have an ongoing playing time issue talk about it and if not corrected, leave.  Let me say that no club wants parents of kids who do not start to get the idea that they should walk.  And, it only takes one kid before a wildfire of defections can set in.  Clubs want to keep paying customers happy.

Finally most directors also understand that kids develop at different paces.  [b]It is really stupid to focus on kids who are good at 10 and may be all done by the time they are 15, and the star 15 year old may be average at 18[/b].  Keep options open and paying customers happy.

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I find the majority of Clubs/coaches do this.  We have a kid playing up on my youngest child's team who has always played the entire game as striker.  3-years in and he is not effective anymore.  Even when he plays like crap in a game--they never sub him out.  They marked him as some prodigy at age 7-8, but that is already starting to wear off.  There are always favorites and kids that treated differntly in the early years.  I have heard coaches talk about 8 years old like they are the next Messi---even at the most 'developmental' Clubs.  All this does is turn off most of the other players. Watching a kid get treated differently (fawned over and can miss things, behave bad, etc) affects teammates and it also affects the superstar in a negative way as well.  Many I have seen don't work as hard because they are used to everyone fawning over them.  The grit is often missing the first time they are faced with challenge and other kids start catching up.  I had this scenario in my own household.  The way one of my kids was treated at the earliest ages vs the other.  They were of equal ability too.  But, for whatever reason, coaches fawned over one in the younger years.  Who worked harder and kept pushing himself?  The kid that always got shit on and had a lot to prove.  He was light years above the other one by U15 and it was a real wake-up call for the other one who started commiting more to also practicing on his own.  Btw, I've been places where entire teams from age 8 don't vary even as the players become less effective than kids on lower teams.  They are viewed a certain way by club/coach and that benefit will carry up to around the teen years when it is too obvious to ignore they aren't the child prodigy after puberty.[/quote]

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