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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For my soccer playing DS the difference was quality of coaching, quality of teammates, and quality of competition. It's hard to get better if you are one of the best on the team and the coach may or may not know much about the sport. We saw huge differences between rec/classic and travel. That being said, there are differences within travel too. [b]In our day NSCL was the league to be in[/b] and there was a huge difference between a Div 6 team (in some cases worse than rec) and a Div 1 team.

We started late - 7th grade. Should have started earlier. [/quote]

So what is the best league to be in now?

Our oldest is just starting travel soccer (and a PP is correct that there's not all that much travel involved in the lower age groups), but I agree with several PP that the best reason to do travel is to find teammates who love the sport as much as you do. We had a good rec team but few of the kids even bothered to show up for practice--or perhaps more accurately, few of the families bothered to get their kids to practice. Most of the handful of boys who were routinely there for practices and games made travel teams this year. [/quote]

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