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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys are missing the fact that you can play competitive in REC SOCCER. For travel soccer the structure should be different. More competitive in all aspects like playing time. Its natural progression as is HS (no guarantees of time) , college (no guarantees) , And God forbid if your favorite pro team gave everyone equal or even FAIR playing time you would lose your mind. travel sports especially at the young years is a peak into real live where nothing is guaranteed. You get in where you fit in , Make your own luck, Etc. Talent 1st. hard work next. and charisma 3rd. are the the order that seems to play out more often than not.[/quote]

Yeah that’s exactly not right. It is, in fact, really stupid.

Why?  Because (1) everyone is paying the same. Don’t want to play a kid?  Don’t take their $$.  Tell them sorry we have to cut you. 
(2) there is not a coach in the world who can look at a 10 year old and say that kid is going to be a good adult player. If they could do that they would not be coaching here.  But they can’t.  Ever see Moneyball?  That speech about not knowing if a 18 or 19 year old will turn into a good player holds in every sport.  How many blown first round draft picks has your favorite NFL team made?  And those are 21-22 year olds who have worked with big time college programs for years.

I would add that anyone with a kid who has gone through youth soccer and into college can easily point to many players who were “all everything” at 15 and never panned out.  My daughter has an acqientence who she keeps in touch with (same church lots of mutual friends mostly through soccer) who was on a u15 national team.  Never played college ball.  Puberty slowed bhee down more and more.

So - if a club takes the money from 8 to 18 it has to play the kid. Don’t want to do that?  Don’t take the money.  Easy.

And, again, for good clubs with good coaching that is not a problem.  So really ask yourself - if a good club/coach can figure out how to get everyone in a game so that everyone is at least reasonably happy about playing time, why do other clubs/coaches have a problem doing that?

I would add, that the situation on playing time is changing quickly in US colleges with the transfer portal. 
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