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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a lot of solid information and personal experience in this thread.  Thank you to those posters for taking the time.  It is what makes this site valuable.  My son plays for a U14 MLS Next squad and is in the 5th and 10th percentile nationally for height and weight (about 5' / 80 lbs).  Those percentile ranks are probably 1 and 1 when compared to the kids in the league.  While we haven't taken advantage of it, I think bio-banding and the original ideas behind it are valuable and useful.  My son is a solid player and contributes at this level and in this age group, but it's certainly a struggle physically.  It's hard to maintain confidence in the attack and have the courage to make hard challenges when so many of the opponents are approaching six feet and 140ish lbs.  Every opponent has at least some kids that large and many other above average size players.  Most also have some smaller players.  It's the nature of the age group.  It is also what makes Bethesda's abuse of the rule so infuriating to me.  In other threads, people have called this "sore loser" talk.  Maybe.  I'll own that.  Call it whining if you will, but it sucks to watch my undersize player work so hard to compete just to have others game the system.    [/quote]

I should add that his parents are above average height and he is a true late developer.  The official medical diagnosis is "late growth spurt."  [/quote]

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