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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Usually winter futsal (and summer leagues/etc) during the off season are not club oriented so running to the club as one poster recommended doesn't do any good.  In my experience, parents form teams of 7-8 kids to form futsal teams.  It can be based on friends or the best players.  Not everyone is asked.  If your kid wasn't asked, it means one of two things...he's not in the social circles and/or he isn't good enough.  There isn't much more too it and, yes, it's very normal in human behavior....for example...who gets invited to birthday parties and who doesn't.[/quote]

That is actually not accurate.  My son is 15 now, but when he was around 7yo yo to when he was 11yo I put together 3v3 teams, winter leage teams, weekend tournament teams, and summer league teams.  I started doing this after I saw the parents of a team he was a part of didn't want to take a leadership role in putting a team in a winter league and the club wasn't doing anything over the winter.  I stepped up, enrolled the players that wanted to play, paid the registration fee myself and asked for reimbursement, sent out emails, a few outdoor training sessions, and coached the team for all games.  It was great when they won and sucked when they lost.

I recall for one tournament I had asked 12 players to come, and when a 13th player and his parent asked, I had to say no because the games were 7v7, saying yes to that player would mean diminished minutes for all.  Thus does happen.

I will be completely honest and say that I started doing this because DS had friends on another outdoor team, and they had registered and didn't invite my DS.  My DS did feel excluded but he also just wanted to play.  My DS is not a great player, but he also is not the worst.

If your DC wants to play over winter/summer, and he isn't one of the top players, you're going to have to take a larger role in these kinds of activities or just get over it and enroll your DC in another sport.  Waiting on the sideline to be asked to dance won't work.

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