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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Which club ensures 50% of playing time?
 My kids got very little time (10 to 20 minutes total max) per game after long hours drive for away games, very frustrated. 
 I would like to know the club name and try out the club.

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If your kid is only playing 10-20 minutes total at U13-14, moving clubs is likely not the answer. Your kid either needs to work harder and try to improve their game and thus earn more playing time, or your kid needs to be willing to move down to the second team. Other clubs’ top teams are not holding spots open for fringe players. [/quote]

If the kid is playing 10-20 minutes in ECNL then there are probably other teams where the kid would start or contend to start.  That sounds like a better situation to me.  Also with these large rosters playing time decisions are forced to be made and some players lose out that may not be much different than some of the favored starters.

I watched a video of an ECNL game a few days back where I know a few players on the rosters.  They did not play much but in my view are comparable in quality to several of the starters in that game.  But what are you going to do - the coach is going to make decisions on some basis and will prefer some players to others.[/quote]

Good point. Based on our own experience you shouldn’t wait long to act (move down or move out). You can hope that next season your kid would get better luck with coach picks but it won’t happen.  My kid was a starter at U13 and was moved to non starter spot basically because coach wanted another kid to play the full game. The kid playing the full game is skilled but doesn’t make any difference in game, with or w/o this kid the team would have the same result.   I am aware that some kids do make the difference but not all of them and yet coaches grant those kids with full game p time.[/quote]

Or stick it out. Our kid went from being a player who barely played 15 total minutes of games at U13 to being a starter playing the entire game by U17. Kids change a lot over these years, both from puberty and the work - or lack thereof - they put into soccer. Kids who left the team to find a a”better” opportunity rarely found it. Now maybe it wouldn’t have worked if they stayed at their original team, but in my experience the grass is not always greener. [/quote]

Disagree, this is our 4th year in ECNL, in four years I haven’t seen that a nonstarter or fringe player become a starter player and get the full game.  Actually the fringe player are regressing development speaking.  It is probably the “club” that handles things as if they were in a pro league. No interest on individual player success. [/quote]

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