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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid — now playing college in a good conference — was moved down multiple times in his club career. For context, at one point he was on the fourth level team.

[b]Clubs are generally toxic places and movement/retention is often unrelated to skill. [/b][/quote]

+1 million
2 boys playing D1 that constantly for d@ked around in club and high school.  The politics and favoritism are astounding.  Absolutely toxic.

Thankfully, many college coaches don’t play that game.[/quote]

Yup.

We view my kid as having made it to his college team [i]despite[/i] club soccer, not because of it. The toxicity—something we saw across multiple clubs, not just one—is astonishing. I do think that not trusting the clubs was an excellent decision in hindsight.

OP, trust your instincts. If you don’t feel the move was made for the right reasons, it’s time to switch clubs. [/quote]

Can ppl give examples of the toxicity at clubs? I’m assuming that kids aren’t really promoted or demoted based on their skills? What else?[/quote]

I have a different perspective. From what I have seen, the only players that get moved down to the B team are the ones that are truly struggling on the A team and it shows on the field and ultimately with playing time. Unfortunately, most of those parents are bitter about the demotion and claim toxicity or politics and demotion is not skill based. A few parents realize that playing 15 minutes a game is probably not the best spot for their kid and a change to the B team is actually a good thing which will help their kid develop and where their kid will actually have more fun. The reality is teams are always looking to add players and that means as you add you are going to subtract. Now sometimes those added may ultimately not turn out to be better and that does happen, but the difference is usually marginal. B team parents always think their kid is better than x on the A team. Again for bottom 4 on A team, that may be the case, may be, but it's subjective and really will not make an impact on team performance either way. Trust me if your kid is a superstar on the B team, they will get looks with the A team and more than likely get to guest and train with A team and ultimately may move up. Do you not think the A team coach does not want to field the most talented team, do you not think that if they could add an impact player they would?? But they also are not spending a ton of time figuring out if I replace my 16th 17th 18th player with this one, that will impact the team, they just are not.

Sorry for the rant but tired of parents complaining that their kid didnt make the A team because, insert any # of BS reasons, but not because of their skill level. Then we hear all the stories about how, B team player now plays D1, or I took my kid to another club and made A team. Those are true statements but still doesnt mean your kid should have been on A team at original club. One clubs A team does not equal another clubs A team.[/quote]

+1. I’ve seen a lot (double digits) of kids get moved down at our big club (5 teams at uLittle). It is always glaringly obvious, and my kid was included the one time she got moved down. The move (B down to C) wound up being great for her, and now she starts on the A team.

Unfortunately, we need even more of this. On our current 11v11 roster, there are 2 obvious moves that need to happen, and inexplicably didn’t for the fall. I believe one is due to a sibling being a top player and not wanting to alienate the family. But the girl sitting on the bench and then looking lost for 15 minutes when she comes in is not helping anybody. [/quote]

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