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[quote=NOVASoccerCoach][quote=Anonymous][quote=NOVASoccerCoach][quote=Anonymous]DS is a U12 player that works on his own and is technically advanced than most in his age group and probably older age groups as well. He cannot seem to break into a top team due to size, speed, and aggressiveness and ends up training/playing with lesser skilled players. What would be your advice as we have repeated this cycle for 2 years now looking for other training environments so he can at least train with players that have a good first touch and do the basics well like passing/receiving and dribbling? At this point I feel he gets more from these training environments than his club team and am pretty sure he agrees. [/quote]

I'd say he needs to get evaluated at multiple clubs. Try out for other competitive top teams and see where he would be at. There can only be two reasons- either he is indeed more technical and is getting overlooked or the size/speed/lack of aggression and is not as technical as maybe it seems is really the reason why he is not being selected. I would even think about finding someone qualified to take a look and watch his games and they can probably give you a better unbiased assessment. [/quote]

We did what NOVA coach suggests.  Our kids were at a very political club where your fate is set at U9.  Then, if you try out elsewhere they look at what team you are on on the registration form and you will be assigned a sh*t field before the tryout.  The field of the rejects so to speak.

We looked around and found a great Club that was very much focused on soccer iq and technical skill and tryouts were not all small-sided scrimmages ---but rondos and many other drills.  They both ended up on first team and as a result the past few years they have been playing first division in a strong league and getting to go to State Cup, etc. These are opportunities that they never would have got on a 2nd or third team elsewhere.  The speed of play is so much faster and I could see if you stayed on a 2nd team too long how you would fall behind.  Also, many of their teammates came from first teams of some pretty good Clubs so they are practicing with much higher skilled players.

I tried to buy into the ---work your way up BS---but when your kid does everything asked and is continually beating kids on upper team and for some reason the Club never dips down into the pool---you need to move for a different opportunity.

We had many unbiased soccer ppl----brutally honest former pro Uncle, outside coach, friends, etc. watch our kids prior to make sure it wasn't us watching with blinders on.  Frankly, I am one of the biggest critics of my kids' play.  We are not the type that think our kids are great at everything.  I can see when kids are better and in the past I could see when they weren't ready for a higher team, etc.  When we had a Coach at the former Club tell us we needed to get out because they were getting screwed over---it made the decision easy.  [/quote]

Thanks for sharing this, happy that club coach spoke up to you all and stuck out for the kid. That's probably the biggest misconception of coaches who are just in charge of teams in the area. We have no control over selection, etc. That all falls into the higher ups and usually we are in a tough spot on where we have to balance both the club politics and the reality of the kid. 9/10 times I will support the kid. Others are different.[/quote]

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