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Do the parents of the two years younger and can't hack it kid own the club and pay the coaches?[/quote]

No, that is the crazy conspiracy theory view. Usually on the girls' side the girl playing up can handle it just fine. People freak out when "an 8th grader" is playing with high school sophomores, but typically the younger girl does just fine.

And for the boys, it makes sense to move the kid up. It's no good for him or a team in his age group if every game is just him dribbling past everyone and scoring. Neither he or his team will learn or develop that way. The coaches or parents who move a kid up in that situation deserve credit. The problem is - and this is always what happens - when that kid gets to the older age level he still plays like he is better than everyone on the field. The coaches don't correct his mentality. His parents certainly don't - they are almost always yelling at him "dribble! shoot!" And so the older team, that is playing in a more developed and advanced way, is stuck with this one kid who detracts from the overall style of play of the team.

Usually parental pressure is involved - they don't want their "star" kid to be moved up to a team where he doesn't get much training time and his coach yells at him every time he dribbles instead of passes. If a coach says we will move your kid up, but he won't get much game time, that's when a lot of parents will leave. But for sure, everyone else on the team knows that the young guy just dribbles too much and loses it too much and doesn't pass when he should.[/quote]

This must be rec coached by parents

Which real coach does nothing about a player on his or her own agenda doing nothing for the team nor themselves?
Real coaches aren't giving that kinda power to a kid or their parents. [/quote]

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