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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ and I mean that in all seriousness through the early teen years.

My kid could juggle 1,000 by 10.  He has excellent touch, great IQ, good ball skill—but he hasn’t hit puberty/growth spurt at  age 13/U14.  He will be 13/U15 this Fall and there are enormous boys in the first Division he plays.  Being at the end of the birth year does no favors. Many of these big kids do not have a great first touch or ball skill, but they all are fast and go straight ahead physically dominating the field.

We have height/muscle in our family so hoping once he gains this hopefully he will dominate since he has the whole package.  He’s not slow by any means, just when you are 5’0” playing against 5’11-6’0” kids with mustaches and full blown testosterone it does matter.[/quote]

You should ask the coaches to move him to a lower division so that he can develop better.  [/quote]

To be fair, the entire team is small and composed primarily of late bdays.  He is nowhere near the smallest on the team.  The team did move out of the first division this Spring and did much better.  The teams they played were more size proportioned than the first division where almost every team had giants.  They also were beginning to be able to play around the bigger teams by the end of the year, using possession, etc.  It will be a different landscape in another year or so when these guys hit their growth.

Younger sibling also has a very small/tiny team, but at 10/11-years old it matters a lot less since the boys don't have testosterone and they do just fine against big teams.

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