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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a social/status thing for the parents often.  People get caught up in the whole thing and believe their kid is a better or more serious player.  Meanwhile travel soccer at that age is pay to play and there is a team for anyone who wants to do it.  The 2 travel players on our rec team aren’t even that good.

And by the way rec soccer is robust in elementary school and both my kids found teams with good players where everyone showed up for practices and games and tried.  [/quote]

I think it differs in communities then. By first 90 percent of the kids switch to club teams in our area so it’s just what everyone does. The kids on rec tend to be special needs situations or kids not really playing in any competitive way. [/quote]

This comment is an example of parents trying to make it a big deal that their kids plays in a club, a pay to play activity.  The whole “my child is too good to play with the special needs and non-competitive kids, they need to travel 100 miles to find other sporty kids”.   That’s parents trying to find status.  It doesn’t work because it’s way too common to sign kids up for club sports so it doesn’t really work. [/quote]

Then they end up playing in the rec leagues anyway, "Just to show off" how they spent all year practicing multiple times per week, but everyone is underwhelmed.

When they lose to rec players, they say, "but it doesn't matter", because we're in the advanced social club and you aren't so there hah![/quote]

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