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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not all of us are ignorant ;-)

My son is 14 and plays travel.  I've definitely seen some crazy soccer parents over the years (one time nearly came to blows between one of our dads and a teenage spectator on the opposing team), but those were on the most competitive teams my son played with.  He's on a B team with a smaller club in NOVA now that plays NCSL and the parents are great and so are the boys!  I think if you feel like your kid is in a negative environment and losing their love of the sport, it's time to shop around.

And by the way, even though he's been playing since he was tiny, I don't have much confidence that he'll make his HS JV soccer team, which I think will be sad, but I'm just keeping it real.  [/quote]

Are you me? Ah, no, your kid's a little older, so I guess not. But my family's story is similar.

Someone mentioned that players in lower-level travel should just go kill it in rec. But it doesn't always work that way. If you're *athletically* ahead of the curve, sure, you can dominate rec. But if you have soccer skills and soccer sense and enjoy putting them to use, rec league at U9-U10 can be rough. Everyone's packed together, no one knows how to pass the ball, and a bunch of kids are just pushed out there by their parents.

Nothing at all wrong with trying out travel at U9 and U10 (and, frankly, it should be open to just about anyone willing to make the commitment at that age) and then going back to rec when rec league gets better in the older ages. [/quote]

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