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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]B.S. I don't particularly care if you want to make yourself feel good, but misinforming others about a soccer players chances of making. H.S team when they stop playing at 12 years old travel and move to rec on this forum is frustrating. So has your DC only played soccer two days a week, has he been practicing on his own, did his rec soccer coach turn out to be a really great teacher and avoids the three 3 L's?

The facts of the story just don't add up.[/quote]

I'm not misinforming anyone -- the fact of the story are exactly as I conveyed them.  My son stopped travel soccer after U12, played rec/house for a few years, and now he's playing on the JV team as a freshman in high school.  His school has around 1,500 students, so not a "small private school."  I don't know whether they're particularly strong, weak, or average in soccer, but so far based on the games they've played to date (both JV and Varsity) I'd say they're about average.

Remember -- the OP was talking about a travel player who was burned out and needed a break, not asking whether skipping travel soccer altogether is a good idea.  Obviously, if a kid never played competitive soccer, only played rec/house his entire childhood, he might not be as good as a kid who used to play travel but then stepped back a bit.  My son is obviously a good athlete and has some natural soccer talent, and also benefitted from learning some good basic skills early on in his soccer days from professional coaches that you get with travel soccer, but he's nothing special at soccer.

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