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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Should we start club soccer at U6?  Is the only downside that club requires some level of specialization at a very young age versus continuing to play various rec program sports and individual sports?  My spouse and I played other sports at a time when it was still possible to be a 3-sport high school athlete.  We know that being good at this young age may not correlate to later success, but DC did stand out in the rec league this year, and DC likes soccer more than everything else we've tried.  [/quote]

What DMV club has a U6 team?  My kid played for Bethesda’s U7 team last year.  My understanding was that it was the first year Bethesda had a U7 team and there weren’t many (any?) other U7 teams in the DMV.  Surprised to hear there are U6 travel teams in the area.[/quote]

OP.  The U6 team doesn't travel. It's a development team within the club and they play other teams within 30 minutes, versus our town program which is all local kids and parents.  I suppose what seperates it from a rec league is paid coaches, 2 practices a week, and a light game schedule in Summer, Spring, and Falll. More emphasis on practice than games.  We are athletes but neither of us played soccer.  At the moment, it is the best fit of the sports we’ve tried. [/quote]

I loved the U7 BSC program.  It’s obviously not hard core club soccer so absolutely no burnout concern, but it’s much more structured / serious / organized than all the local rec leagues.  The kids in the group definitely had a leg up this year at the U8 level, although I highly doubt that will be sustained for more than a year or two.  My kid enjoyed it, so definitely no harm, and he definitely got some benefit out of it, [b]but probably not sustained for a significant amount of time.[/quote][/b]

This is what I tend to think as someone who started my kids early in a different sport. Starting early gives the kids a leg up for a couple years, but by age 9 or 10 other athletic kids can and will catch up. A lot of great athletes start early but starting early does not make a great athlete, if that makes sense. Do it if you want to and your kid will like it, but not to try to gain some advantage over other kids. [/quote]

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