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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not in the DC area anymore so no use speculating on which club I'm talking about.  Club's first year of travel is U9 for boys. My son tried out along with most of his friends, to the same club.  Large number of kids seemed to be there, maybe 40?  Since it's the first age grouping I naively assumed there would not be a bunch of politics involved.  The club doesn't have a rec program so these kids were all completely unknown to the evaluators and coaches, although I know people know eachother socially (the head coach for the top team grew up around here, as did many of my son's friend's parents) and some people have older kids on teams so are already known to the program. Anyways fast forward until after tryouts, my kid got an offer to be on the second team (out of 2 teams).  So did 2 of his buddies, and a couple other buddies got cut entirely. One of his buddies is a standout player and made the top team.  Now get this- another buddy of his, who is very objectively not athletic, and does not enjoy sports, but whose mom made him try out, made the top team.   When I tell you that at tryouts, he stood out as one of the kids who didn't seem into it and didn't get many touches on the ball in the scrimmages, I am being serious.  He was placed in the lowest tier scrimmage group pretty quickly when they started evaluating.

Please tell me what is happening!  Was it a mistake?? (he has a very common name- think Jack or Henry).  Is his mom sleeping with the coach?? Like literally tell me why this might have happened.  I am new to the travel soccer world and know I can't engage in unkind gossip with the moms of my kid's friends, because he's friends with this kid.  He's also about a hundred times better at soccer than him and the kids that got cut are marginally better too![/quote]

OF COURSE there are long-established parent cliques and they aren't going to cut their friends' son. Dude, it's U9 soccer; it's totally meaningless.

Welcome to the real world. Very little in life is equitable, fair and based on pure merit.[/quote]

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