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Many kids leave soccer because of the burnout and I agree that there is a high turnover rate (for various reasons).  Kids on the top teams are not excepted.  The top teams at big clubs at U16 would have a very different make up from their top team, when they were playing U9-U10. [/quote]

Yes, but most of the players on that club's top U16 team were at other clubs' top team when they were U9-U10, and many of the kids who were on that club's top U9-U10 team are on now on other clubs' top U16 teams.

The burnout rate of players who were on good A/B teams at U9/U10 is not that high.  Most continue to play at some level through high school.  A far greater percentage of lower level players will leave the sport, but most will move on to other sports they enjoy more and are better at.  
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I agree with this from what I've seen having had one kid play through high school and another almost all the way through.  I was thinking about this over the weekend as one of my son's current teammates sent him a video of a game when they were on opposing teams, 7 years ago when they were U10s.  There are 4 kids from my son's U10 team who are committed to D1 soccer programs, with 2 more likely to commit to D3 programs.  Only two kids from that team no longer play soccer, one because he eventually switched to basketball, which he'll play in college.  The opposing U10 team has two D1 soccer commits, and at least one D3.  Not sure about the others, but many are still playing soccer.   Most of the top players are on different teams now than they were at U10.[/quote]

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