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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If a player is looking to switch clubs, does the potential new club consider the record of the team that the player wants to leave? Or are they mostly evaluate a player based on what they see in training sessions (assuming they let the player come to a few practices) and in tryouts? [/quote]

Old lady here: yes.  It's crazy. It matters more than anything else.  I have a male playing D1 this year and a male Junior in HS.

I always found it absolutely insane that these clubs at the YOUNGEST of ages---would ask for your club and team (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and then 99% of clubs at tryouts would place you on the tryout field with the same rank team.  If you were a U9 third team---you would be placed on field with new club third team. Often, you would never get a single look by coaches for any other team.  There was zero concept that--maybe a kid changed (you now kids do change) or that they were horribly misplaced at other club for various reasons.

We were always fighting to just get our kids seen--and with the high caliber players.  A player with sh*t around them is going to look like sh*t.  My kids always rose to the level of play.  If you put them on the top field they would fit in seamlessly--and excel.  They better the level of play around them, the better they play and look (like most good players).

We found at the pro combines this totally wasn't the case.  They didn't care who you were or where you were from.  They looked at the player in front of them.  That was the break-in point for my kid. AND--college teams work pretty much the same.  Don't bother showing at an id camp if you are on a lower team--doesn't matter if you outplay all those mlsnext/academy kids.  They need the pomp and circumstance to tout their recruiting classes on social media.

US soccer is a joke.[/quote]

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