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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I was going to, because I felt that my son's coach could not maintain discipline over the kids, but I feel like he has made a change and that things have improved, so we are staying where we are.

I'm not trashing you, but this is the problem with travel soccer. Most of us talk about coming and going before tryouts even start. It should be ID the teams first, tryout, offer made/not, and them decide. Wish clubs would actually do a real tryout and not just take the kids from the previous year and add a few. We use to be in a club in LA and the tryout scouts were not connected to the coach/team directly. They would just group the kids into the levels, no favoritism, all had to work to earn/reearn their spots.

Tryouts are a horrible way to pick a team. Some of the best girls I have seen are horrible at tryouts. It's specially true for the play makers. Tryouts are a crap shoot.[/quote]

OP here, and I'm confident he'll either get his spot back or get a spot on the team one level down.  He played well this season, and frankly, since both DH and I work full time and we don't have family in the area, there's really only one or two other clubs we could consider in terms of driving distance, and both would be much more inconvenient for us.  We may have him try out at those one or two other places, but unless something goes terribly wrong and he somehow gets no spot at his current club, he's playing there, because it works better for our family.

There's a reason that clubs take back kids from previous years who played well and know the club's system.   They're a known quantity.  Granted, someone else can look good at tryouts, but they're an unknown, and the club really doesn't even know if they're serious about taking the spot, or just hoping to get an offer from a higher level team than where they're currently at.   [/quote]

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