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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in Europe and find the youth travel soccer business here completely alien.   Why have 9 and 10 year olds sit in a car for 4 hours on a weekend to go beat some poor team 7-0 just to preserve, for proud parents, the conceit that they can’t get a competitive game locally?   Why not have them out in local park playing - surely switching those 5 hours with just an hour of playing time for a couple of hours coaching and a couple of hours of scrimmages/pick-up games would do far more for their development (not to mention a more fun childhood)?  This strict focus on playing age-groups together is also weird to me - I learnt the most soccer from trying to keep up with the older kids from the neighborhood.

The non-travel teams apparently often have crap/parent coaches though.

Is there a third option?  High quality regular (2-3x/wk) coaching with games against the best of neighborhood/city teams and maybe travel to a tournament once a season?

Bethesda has options for something like this?

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You sound like you have it all worked out in your head. Go with that. [/quote]

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