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[quote=Anonymous][quote]If your kid was on a C team for a year, has improved a great deal, is the best player on the team and does not move---you need to switch Clubs. It happens. We had several benchwarmers that hardly play the entire season move up because of parent pressure or the Club owed the family a favor, while the kid that played the entire game every game and was a crucial/key player did not move. Zero behavioral or parental issues. If anything, we were the least PIA/quiet and supportive parents on the team. And the Coach had him listed as #1 when giving names to TD/age group head. I am not a squeaky wheel. When we announced we were leaving, they were shocked. They offered to move the kid up to get us to stay. That completely turned me off. Too little, too late. My kid said 'who wants to get on a team that way'?

Ended making a much more competitive A team, playing and starting in a First Division of a competitive league vs the low division in the middling league where we were before. Sometimes the only option is to move on. The kid has progressed light years playing at a higher speed and against better players. He never would have had that opportunity at the other Club.

There is sticking it out and working hard, but at some point you need to realize that it is futile at some Clubs and it doesn't matter if you progress above the players above you---they just aren't demoting their favorites.[/quote]

Wait, are we at the same club? :) I'm very happy for your player and good for you for moving on. It makes me sad that there are so many kids stuck in situations like yours was who could have a much better soccer experience if clubs were what they claim to be. Oh, and the advancement due to family connections is super common everywhere. That's why I laugh every time someone here says that you should tell your DS or DD to work harder so that they can move up.  Sure.  It totally works that way.[/quote]

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