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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's why you don't wait for a year.  At age 9, a year is 10% of the kid's entire life to that time.  You are spending an decent amount of money, and your kid is expending a significant amount of time and effort on it.  Make it a worth while experience for the kid and for your family.

Every decent club already knows what our poster seems to not get - that kids change over time.  Clubs want to keep customers happy AND they want kids to develop properly.  Winning a game a age 9 or 10 does not matter at all.  Heck, it does not even matter to the kids an hour later.  What matters is how kids are developing and learning, and they do not do that sitting on the bench during games.

Sure -- every player should be sitting on the bench some.  That's part of being on a team where there are more players than on-field positions.  The reality is that you do not know where kids will end up physically and technically at 18 when they are 9.  That's why clubs work to make things equal at 9 and 10.  That tiny kid at 13 might be over six feet at 18.  That big fast kid on the u14s might be done growing, and will slow down a step or two by 17.

So, at 9 and 10 and really all the way up -- you play everyone as much as possible every game.  That's the best way to keep learning and that's what everyone is paying for.  Don't think Kid X is good enough to do that?  Don't put Kid X on the team and don't take his parents money.  Easy.

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Equal playing time is not a goal of travel soccer. Training is where kids play 90% of their soccer. A game on Sunday and the number of touches at 9 years old are just not as important to development as training. 5 extra minutes per game will not yield the developmental outcome you think it will compared to practice.

Again, if just playing games, equal minutes is the most important part of development then why are you not playing in rec?

The kid is 9 and it is December. You are all over reacting to the situation especially the laughable "At age 9, a year is 10% of the kid's entire life to that time." line.

3 practices a week plus an hour for a game including for 12 weeks is about 66 hours. You can round up to 70 or 75 hours.

Your 9 year old has been alive for nearly 80,000 hours which means that this fall season has accounted for about .000825% of the hours that your child has been alive. Believe me, you are over reacting to the lost 60 minutes of game time for the fall season. 
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