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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]U8 mom that started this chaos here...

Just popping back in to thank the recent posters who spent time to write so much and share their perspective.  It's really helpful as we try to understand this whole youth soccer stuff.[/quote]

Good luck.  We have two children below U-13 at one of the Big 3 CCL clubs.  It is a machine and will take many parents' money for fear of a TD or coach labeling your family, especially if the children are on 1st teams.  Our approach has been that we pay the bare minimum required to be on the travel team so that they have a team, but then we turn down the myriad of other options (private training groups with the IN crowd, ODP, Super Y, endless camps) in order to use that time to train on our own, with siblings, and with friends.  I am no expert, but I see my children improve and learn new things kicking it around with a former dad player and good friends, more then any of the club training.  Their footskills come entirely from what they do on their own.  It seems crazy to pay all the money, but it seems necessary to be able to play with schoolmates and good player friends.  The recreational league is one of the best organized, but the play and competition is so horrible at U9 that travel was the best choice.  We have been told it is virtually impossible to get into these big clubs after U9, and that does seem to be our experience.  We do have lots of friends who have no problem joining a smaller club later on, but they have had to drive farther and they are not with their schoolmates if that matters to you.[/quote]

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