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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The fun is gone too young.  Too many parents ruining it for the kids and over-training them younger and younger.  Clubs out to make $ and requiring too much structure and too much $$ at an age-inappropriate time.

The organized 90-minute travel practices 3+ times a week almost year round for SECOND graders is ridiculous...add in multiple tournaments each season and long drives and a culture that gives up on 90% of kids in an age group.  [/quote]

This is the issue.

They are burned out before third grad.[/quote]

Oh stop with throwing “burned out” around. At that age most kids who “quit” simply prefer something else. Isn’t the whole point to simply expose kids to a variety of things and see what sticks? Preferring something else is not burnout. Some of you people are so dramatic.[/quote]

This is first and second graders.  This is way too much and kids are burned out.  Third grade wasn't a tipping point for a large amount of kids leaving travel soccer.  In fact, the more serious stuff used to start closer to 4th grade.

I see little kids refusing to go to practice or saying 'it'ssss boorrrring' when the professional coaches that have no idea how to interact with younger children try to treat them like 16-year olds.  And the parents are usually pushy as hell---over-bearing to the kids so they can show the other parents just how much better their child is.[/quote]

3 organized 90-minute practices per week and multiple games a weekend a lot of months,, and regular season games with 50minute + drives is not age-appropriate for 2nd/3rd graders.  That is why there is burnout.  You don't need this to develop players and since in this country it is shitty training anyways...they are better off starting formally later if they have a parent or friend that can help with basics.[/quote]

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