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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When does the "not so good kid" finally get to the point where their parent stops paying for club soccer?  When the roster expands and the number of teams shrinks?  When middle and high school sports take affect?  Our team has a couple kids who just aren't at the same level and the coach gives them equal playing time (as he should).  [/quote]

It doesn't make sense to me. I'm glad kids are playing sports but why is every kid in travel? We have a handful of unskilled, slow, overweight kids who should be playing rec. It's pretty obvious that they're terrible but parents insist on continuing travel. They'd be well positioned and sufficiently challenged in a lower league so why bring the whole team down? The biggest issue now is that you cannot say that some kids are better than others, or that another kids sucks. For some reason, everyone needs a medal and we can't hurt anyone's feelings. Parents, if your kid has man boobs, sports might not be for him. Your kid might not be good at soccer but could be great at programming, violin, languages, debate or a myriad of other things. I don't understand why we need to insist that all kids are good at all things. They're not and we should be honest about it.

OP, if your kid is a good player you either have to tough it out with your current team or try-out elsewhere. You'll have to decide whether the longer drive is worth it to you because these kids who can barely run each represent $2K to the club and they're not going anywhere.  [/quote]

PP you sound like your kid belongs to a club that is suffering the effects  of cannibalization. If so you’ll know why.[/quote]

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