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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I've got to be honest. My child has played for Alexandria for several years (not a top team) and I am getting pretty frustrated at the way that they assemble the teams. The kids are around the same level, that part is correct. But they seem to give no thought to whether they have the right mix of defenders, midfielders, goalkeepers, wings, etc. to field a decent team. The kids are not so little that this doesn't matter/shouldn't be clear. I'm not a person who is always on here hating on the club, but that aspect really feels like a money grab to me. It is demoralizing for the kids, because you can't have a team that is competitive within their own bracket/division if you have a kid who is a striker trying to play defender or vice versa.

So let me get this straight, your child plays on a lower level team and the problem is he/she is a "striker" and being used as a defender or is it vice versa?
either way, your youth player should not be designated a striker or specific to any one position especially on a lower level team. The same is true on a top team. If she is a girl take a look at Crystal Dunn. She led the NWSL in scoring only to make the USWNT and not play her NWSL position. Her versatility made her a complete player

I use her as an example but countless examples exist both male and female.

Your kid needs to work on their skill set at playing all positions not just "striker"

and how this is a club issue I cant figure out.[/quote]

You're entitled to your opinion, but that certainly isn't the way the red or white team is run.  So if it is such a great system, why don't they do it for the more competitive teams they care about?  And the kids are not U littles any more, so sticking our striker (not my kid) in goal because we don't have one is BS.[/quote]

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