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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well he did put them in a boys league at U9 in the spring. And yes - as another poster commented, most of the competitive teams play up a year, and some in 2 leagues as well. Should they have been in the top bracket for this spring.... probably not.

That begs the question of development vs winning. I see some folks take one side or another, when [b]IMO there really needs to be a balance.[/b]  [/quote]

No there doesn't. The kids will keep the score. The kids will naturally compete. The score needs to be forgotten once you leave the field.[/quote]

It’s hard for 10 year olds who had a lot of success up until March, to forget 0-3, 0-5, 0-8 scores on the walk back to the car and tears flowing down, and shrug it off. As much as you can ask them if they even remember scores from a year ago and reinforce the journey - that none of the scores matter, for some players it still matters and the succession week after week after week. Expecting all 10 year olds to shrug off those beat downs, kinda unrealistic.[/quote]

That’s sports. There is always a better team and while it sucks to get stomped like that. Coasting through games winning everything is absolutely worse. Develops complacency and pride.

Playing against tougher competition is how you grow. And 10 years of age is old enough to understand how serious you are with soccer. Ecnl is coming up and makes edp look like rec. Fleeing now is probably the right option for you as the training gets significantly harder and coaching is tougher. [/quote]

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