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[quote=Anonymous]My kid switched from house to travel when he was 10, but we wish he would have done it a year sooner.  He has also played soccer since he was 4 and it's always been the thing he loves to do more than anything.  The reasons I wish he would have done it sooner were: 1. He was not developing AT ALL on house.  The coaches were all well-intentioned parents (my husband among them a few times) that could only really get him to a certain point developmentally.  2. All the kids on his level left to play travel and the kids left on house were not at his level, causing him to stagnate further. 3. By the time we realized he should be on travel (we knew nothing about soccer and travel teams, etc.), there was only ONE travel team at his club to try out for (the A team) and their roster was full.  It was REALLY hard to get on that team.  He got a slot, but he was really the least developed kid on the team.  This was in the spring.  The following fall, they created a B team and put him on it, but they staffed it with a coach that was overbooked coaching several other teams and ours was last on his to do list.  I think oftentimes the A teams get the better coaches and more of the clubs focus/resources.  The moral of my story is - I think if he had started travel sooner, he might have been a more competitive player.  Not that we ever thought he was a superstar, but I would have liked him to play on his HS team (he didn't try because he's at an FCPS HS where the teams are made up of older kids from A teams).  But all of that having been said, he's now 16 and still plays travel on a B team and still loves it - and, as many have pointed out - that's the important part.[/quote]

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