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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Keep him in his age group and let him have fun with his friends.  He can move to travel next year.  [/quote]

Bad advice, especially if the kid (a) lives the game, (2) is competitive (and good, as you say he is and the invite proves), and (c) is willing to learn and not be discouraged if he struggles at points with older/bigger kids.

The extra year of top coaching (compared to parent coaching in rec) plus the extra year of having to play against much tough competition will make the kid exponentially better. At some point a few years down the line he will probably repeat a year to allow the players his age to catch up. But again, he will have the leg up from those years getting the better coaching and much better competition.

Sign him up (and sign him for rec too, if allowed— more touches and can (re)gain confidence by dominating against the smaller kids his age (inform the rec Coach that he will have conflicts and they will probably be fine with that))[/quote]

The kid isn’t even 7 yet.  Sign him up for rec.  do summer camps or individual training if want but the ego boost of travel isn’t worth the burnout factor 
At 7 you can’t tel if he’ll ever want to be really good let alone be good 
Let a kid be a kid for 1 more year [/quote]

+1 
There is a value in playing with friends enjoy it while you can 
Make decisions to develop people not soccer players [/quote]

Learning to adapt to change and expanding a social circle also develops people. Doing things only with or solely because ones friends are doing can be stifling and very incubating over time.

Playing up or in a different circle will be the quickest way to determine whether he is playing because he truly enjoys soccer or if he is playing soccer because he is with his friends. Nothing wrong with either but but knowing the truth sooner than later is better. And it would take a full year with the new team to come to that realization. Being shy or standoffish the first couple of weeks is not really enough time to draw any conclusion.

Kids get different teachers and different classmates every year without a second thought and this should be no different.[/quote]

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