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[quote=Anonymous]OP I was in your position a year ago. Neither my spouse nor I played soccer growing up so we were clueless. Our son is similar to what you described. I initially thought kids who were good enough for travel would be recruited by coaches at rec games or something. Ha! I didn’t realize that travel clubs would create as many teams as they had parents willing to pay!

That being said, we let our son try out for the club closest to our house. He loves going to practice and never complains about it. He is on the second team of five in the age group. He has guest played for the top team and maybe has a chance of making that team next year when the rosters expand. There’s a wide range of ability between the top and bottom teams at big clubs. If I were you I would see if your son can attend practices of the clubs you could reasonably drive to during the week, and see if the coach will give you an idea of where they think your son would land. I have seen kids randomly come to practices at our club. Some end up joining the club, others do not.

My son’s team has played VYS teams. The top team was good but the lower teams not so much. I personally wouldn’t a lot of money for my son to be on a bottom travel team.

Last thing I will say — a friend of ours said that when he asked his parents if he could play travel soccer back in the 90s, they said they would not pay for it unless he was regularly going out in the backyard on his own to kick a soccer ball/practice skills. I think that’s a good rule of thumb! So many parents put their kids in travel sports thinking it will make the kid good at the sport. It should be the other way around — put your kid in travel because you see some talent and intrinsic motivation.[/quote]

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