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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Uuuuugggghhh...  So how does a kid switch clubs if the try-outs are such a disaster??  My U13 kid loved his club until now, but had a new coach this year that was "not a fit" for him (or a lot of players.)  We would hate for him to be w/ the same coach again. I have not given up hope that our kid can continue to develop.  So he's trying out at a different club, but there's 85 kids out there for a couple slots.  It feels hopeless.  This never gets talked about, but it's not about him working hard. It's that as a single-mom I genuinely don't have the bandwidth to drive 30-40+ minutes each way to a club practice farther away 3 days a week.  Who are these people who try out at 3-4 clubs?  They're just messing up tryouts. Do they have jobs? Are they actually going to drive that far?  I am apparently the only soccer parent in NOVA who has limits.[/quote]

You have to go to practices before the first tryout so your kid is on the coaches’ radar and they can do some evaluation of his skills outside of the chaotic tryout environment. Which means more time and driving for you. I get that it sucks. It seems like that a part of the problem with US soccer and probably a lot of other youth sports. The kids who “make it” often aren’t the ones with the most talent, but rather the ones whose parents were the most invested aka the craziest. [/quote]

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