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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sadly, most of the advice you'll get on here is biased and unreliable. None of the area clubs have consistent coaching across the club. You really have no choice but to do your own research. Make a list of local clubs within range and go watch them yourself to see what the coach and environment is like in your son's age group and make your selection based on that. Winning and competition level are nowhere near as important at that age as the environment the coach creates. My daughter who plays D1 now was with parent coaches until U11. [/quote]

Totally false. How on earth would you know about the consistency of every clubs younger teams on both boy and girls side?  Some clubs have had the same coaching progression in place at these ages for the past five years and teach the same principles.[/quote]

I can know about the consistency of the local clubs because I am a referee who has spent countless hours out on the field with these teams every weekend. You may not have noticed the discussion was not of principles of play but of the atmosphere created for the children. I can assure you I have seen terrible, screaming, abusive, idiot coaches at all the local clubs, and there are good ones too. Some clubs that have the same coaching progression still have terrible coaches mixed in for some of the age groups who think verbal abuse is a motivational strategy to use with children or just plain clueless coaches who think 8 year-olds should be silent while they are at soccer practice. Knowing a lot about soccer does not make them know a lot about working with children.[/quote]

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