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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They changed the age range and now kids can't play with their grade which is not as much fun. On top of this, the fees are high compared to something like little league and there are too many divisions so kids and parents are driving all over the place to play games.[/quote]

What you are describing is travel soccer. The pp’s son is years away from that. The age requirement is not enforced in house soccer. Kids in same grade get to play with each other on the same team. [/quote]

I was just responding to the original post. In our town a lot of people want the option to play travel and eventually make a high school or college team. I think it's discouraging from the outset that travel has a new age requirement. Also, the DC area now has too many leagues at the younger ages which require more travel. It doesn't make sense to have four different travel leagues for U9-U12 for the same area. Parents don't want to travel that much during elementary school.[/quote]

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