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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are in the same situation for a nine year old. My kid lives for soccer, but they are small for their age and a December birthday. I don't understand the mentality of not building in space at the early ages for kids who are really committed to soccer and would benefit from the resources to develop. Another year in development soccer where there are half the practices and no professional coaching means another year of getting further behind.[/quote]

Where are you? At that age we found Potomac Soccer and Bethesda took all the kids and just added teams. At later ages this wasn’t true but at 9 there should be a team. DS has had small players on every team he’s played on as long as they had the skills.  My nephew and nieces play for FC Frederick which is huge and they also have the same mentality. There are 4-5 teams for each age level. My nieces and nephews on the bottom teams are having fun and improving because they get professional coaches and more hours practicing and playing than they would on rec. Don’t hesitate to reach out even after tryouts have ended because often they still need to round out the rosters on lower teams.  I’m sorry I don’t know the travel teams in Va to make any suggestions there. [/quote]

What I've seen in VA is the opposite.

The big clubs scramble to fill teams -- at the older age groups, when a lot of players have either moved up to MLS Next/ECNL/ECNL-R/EDP and a lot more have either dropped out or play rec. At the younger age groups, they're turning dozens of people away -- 100 boys trying out for 44 spots at U9 is pretty common, and the tryouts are often poorly run zoos that may help them pick players 1 through 10 but give them no insight into players 11 through 44.

Those are the *big* clubs, though -- all the clubs that are named after a town (Arlington, Alexandria, McLean, Vienna, Herndon) or a county (Loudoun) -- and things can vary elsewhere. My DS tried out for Great Falls U10 back before the GFR merger. We were told he had to attend at least two of the tryouts to be considered. He went to one and didn't seem too enthused. He didn't have a negative attitude, but he played passively in the scrimmage. I watched a bit and figured, "Yeah, he's just not into this. That's fine." A couple of days later, we had an offer. (We didn't take it -- he was already playing travel at U9 at another small-ish club and decided to stay put.)[/quote]

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