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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is youngest at age 11 and doesn't do anything with soccer outside of travel practices as none of her friends play soccer.  JUST this year at U13 she is always with the ball.  World Cup really held her interest and she watched entire games which she never had before.  She took a few personal training sessions in off season just this past year.  She's not in top club but steadily improving upwards. Last season she was the star striker on her team.  My point is you have no idea how he may evolve in the next 2-3 years.

So I say to you - at U9 it is waaaaaaay to early!  I can't tell you how many coaches have said to me you do not know until u12/13 what will happen.

Worst case scenario they play well enough for HS.  Worst case they are active and have fun and not on electronics all day.  Worst case they learn what commitment means with a heavy practice schedule, how to lose and why you win, they learn how to playa sport.

You really gotta lay off a kid at U9!!!!  [/quote]

U12/U13???  For boys it’s U16/17.

There are 5’2-5’4” Freshmen that will be 6 feet by Senior year.  A lot of the big guns stopped developing during middle school.  For my Senior-  the top Mlsnext, Ecnl teams look very very different than u9-u15.  Things change A LOT. [/quote]

No the top teams really don't change a lot.  They change a little bit.  Most of the top U19s in the area were also top U13s.[/quote]

Only at bad clubs.

If your boys’ roster on your mlsnext/ecnl boy team has not changed from U13 to U19 you are not providing appropriate competition and it’s status quo for the civil servants. [/quote]

I read the PP’s post to mean that top teams at U19 are composed of kids that were on top teams at U13.

Of course MLSNext/ECNL rosters are going to change. Academies recruit from MLSNext. Other clubs take in kids from other top teams rather than pull kids from second teams. [/quote]

If you are saying boys at U13 (12 years old) were all on the top team at a club, you are insane.

We are at a very big (popular club) and there are so many boys from the second, even some third, that moved onto the MLSnext/ECNL teams in high school.

Boys develop so much later and many of those clubs are picking the early puberty kids that have the testosterone/muscle mass.  12 is incredibly young for boys.

The best player we know (senior now) was on the 3rd team in middle school and committed to a D1 school last summer.  He didn't make the move to the top team until Sophomore year. This should be more common but in this area they want to protect the 'customer'. Upset parents/players leave with their $ and create bad press for them.

It's just not competitive here where you are forced to prove yourself and your spot every.single.day/month/year.[/quote]

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