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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP.  I have a few thoughts to consider.  If you are doing 2 private sessions per week, you guys must defiantly be dedicated and should move up and or the skills should shine through and the coaches should take notice.

1.) Are you using a private Coach organic to your club? If not, and if it's allowed, that might produce more benefit as the Coaches talk and might influence who moves up.

2.) Sometimes the extra pushy parent gets what they want.  We have family literally complain about the 3rd team loudly and just started bringing their kid to all the 2nd team practices.  -They aren't on the team yet, but the other kids like the kid, so after a month, they were invited to guest play at the end of season tournament.  Seems like they unofficially made room for the pushy parents.

3.) Some clubs do get full and moving kids around creates too much drama/ so they only bring in kids from outside the club for the top teams.   So, yes I would look at bringing your kid to practice as soon as possible to another club you are most interested in now. Don't wait for tryouts, just bring them to try the practices now if at all possible.  Just e-mail the TECH Director or DOC or Club Admin and talk up your kid and bring them out.   At 2014, your kid should be ready to make the switch to another club and understand the reason why. -Don't tell your current club anything unless you think it can be helpful in their consideration to move your kid up.

4.) Lastly, if you only go to a tryout for another club. Get there early, have your kid help the coaches set up, wear and Argentina jersey, wear neon headband w his name on it and juggle a grapefruit before the session start. Talk to the head Coach before and after practice. Otherwise, it will be hard to get noticed during an open tryout.

-Good luck and have fun![/quote]

Thanks so much for taking the time to give such a thorough response. Here is my response to your points:

1)The private coach that we are using is the assistant coach of the 2013's 2nd team. Great coach. Very professional. Unfortunately, our 2014 head coach has far more power within our academy.

2)I have never been a pushy parent because I am a believer that talk is (or should be) cheap. Its what you do in the field and in practice that counts. I became team manager at the request of the coach but haven never demanded anything. I only asked the coach if my kid could try out with a higher team at the end of the season after we would the tournament and he scored the game winner in the final.

3)I am considering emails several academies, buy my hesitation is that most are now doing Futsal and my kid has always played regular soccer or indoor soccer, but never Futsal so I am not sure he would show well under this circumstances.

4)I agree that main tryouts should 100% be avoided. I have seen them and I am baffled on how academies can discern talent by watching hundreds of players playing 4v4 with pug goals.

Last update: our private coach corroborated that the team within our academy that we were interested in trying out, currently has 15 players and is actively trying to trim down its roster. They are not looking for more players.

Apparently, our academy has the beautiful problem of having too many good players...

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You are one of those scheming parents.  [/quote]

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