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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why parents should ask coaches when they’re offered a spot if their will get playing time. 
I literally did this when my U14 DD got offered a spot on a travel soccer team. I don’t care if she plays the whole game but she needs to be playing close to half the game or this isn’t the right team for us. 
Too many parents care too much about the name of the team, or league their kid is in. 
DD will try out for HS soccer next year. I’ll ask tbat coach the same thing. If she’s not playing in games we’re not wasting our time. [/quote]

Coaches are not always honest and sometimes lie about all sorts of things to get players to commit to the team.  We had that experience last year on a club team, as did many other players.  All sorts of promises were made in those initial calls during tryout weekend. Our lesson was to do a lot of research on the coach, if at all possible. Individual coaches are so much more important than the name of the team.  [/quote]

Just out of curiosity: how do you do research on individual coaches? We tried doing that numerous times with extremely limited success. Some coaches have a short bio on the club website, which is rarely useful. You are lucky if you find any info outside the club website. If you stay in the same club, you can use the word of mouth (this was more successful for us). But this is mission impossible if you decide to jump ships. It is even more complicated when you get on a bottom level team, where the club doesn't even know who the coach is going to be. Even clubs like MOCO don't have all their ducks in a row at the tryouts - they know who will coach teams 1 and 2, but they will tell you that the 3rd team coach could not come to the parent meeting (which could be read as "we have no clue who will coach that team"). Clubs closer to the bottom have even more problems attracting and retaining coaches. [/quote]

It’s really hard.  My daughter is U15 this year and we are talking to a lot of parents this year.  From the conversations we are all having at clinics, they seem to be doing the same.  That’s the best we all can do to find out as much information as we can about the clubs all of our daughters played for last year and the coaches they had.  Some know other coaches through their high schools.  Over the years through schools and clubs we all know a lot of parents now and see a lot of people at clinics on the weekends.  But you are right, none of this is guaranteed and everyone has a different experience.  [/quote]

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