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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I realized something important yesterday.  My kid begged me to take him to the park in the freezing rain to practice defending goals and run laps.  Also on the field was an older kid getting a private training session.  The coach was pulling teeth to get this kid to work through drills and the kid had a good attitude, but not the natural talent or the gritty, raw *drive* that my kid has.  And that other kid can't do a single thing to gain those things.[/quote]

Wait until puberty. lol.  A lot of boys and girls that used to be like that lose the love of the game when they grow interest in the opposite sex.  Also- the tedium of travel soccer and the way it is run so early can really burn kids out by HS.

That said --my Senior is still like your son, but I think the fact that he was injured for a 1.5 years early HS is the reason he still has a burning passion while a lot of boys on his MLSNext and ECNL teams stopped playing around Junior year.[/quote]

I would love to see verifiable factual data that shows the amount of kids playing MLS Next who voluntarily dropped out of soccer by their Junior year in High School. [/quote]

There is a top study that quantifiably shows kids who over-focus on a single sport during the u12-u9 range are more likely to peak early and burn out early.  [/quote]

That's not specific to MLS Next players dropping out by HS Junior year.
That's the statement made above. Where is the evidence of that is the request. [/quote]

MLS Next "started" in 2020. The same year half of our region had closed fields for six+ months.  There's not going to be any meaningful data yet.[/quote]

Then statements shouldn't be made if there are no data of facts. 
That's the point.[/quote]

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