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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trust us, they will fill that last team with anyone willing to pay. There is no difference between a kid on the fourth u9 travel team and any random rec league kiddo.[/quote]

You might be forgetting the wide range in rec if you haven't watched the younger ones in a while. Some of them just stand there or run away from the ball. Or some try but they just kick the ball wherever without any sort of thought about where it will end up. Or they have literally no touch. The average kid on a fourth U9 team may not be good but if they are signing up for travel they tend to at least be coachable with an interest in learning and improving. That is very different from the random rec kid whose parents signed them up just to keep them moving. [/quote]

Except I presume at U/8 or U/9, parents are the ones pushing their kids to play travel, no? I don't know many 7 or 8 year olds begging for travel sports.[/quote]

PP who posted that a coach approached us about our 2017 after the skills class. A lot of it is the parents at this age, but in our case we have an 8 year old who has been asking for a year when they are going to play travel, because they have an older sibling who has been playing travel for a few years. We've been trying to hold off and say "we'll see". I know it's ultimately up to us as parents, but I am a little worried about sending a message to the younger DC that they aren't good enough to do something that we let their older sibling do. And now we can't say "oh, there aren't any spots" because DC was right there listening when the coach approached us.[/quote]

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