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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SYC makes all their teams participate to make more money off their travel families.

But, the competition is low, so all their teams end up wanting to play up to make it not a totally wasted weekend.

No one wants to play a team a year younger playing "up", that's a lose lose situation for the correct age team.[/quote]

Disagree. There is way too much focus on birthdate in this country and not enough on playing kids at the same skill level and physical maturity. 
SYC, at the top teams, tends to roster a bunch of physically mature for their age kids. So it seems like a good fit. [/quote]

So…. Tracking here…. Physical size and strength is an unfair advantage but if your kid has vision/intelligence, that’s okay to use in their age group? Kids develop unevenly but that doesn’t mean you should discount some and not others.

I’ll support biobanding when we are argue for dumb kids to play down for that reason.[/quote]

The problem is not the players. It's the coaches taking shortcuts and covering up their own lack of knowledge or ability to coach by picking big, fast kids to win with just that. Everyone knows that truly skilled smaller players can compete with and beat bigger players. The problem is few coaches are smart enough to identify these players and then utilize their strengths in a system. So, they take the biggest dogs for the fight and sit back collecting checks. [/quote]

I have physical visual evidence of the exact opposite.  It’s the players.   Kids team has some tiny GOOD players who spend most of their time on the ground like an upside down turtle.  It’s true and we all know it.  You need size in youth elite soccer or to be Messi.  If you are Messi any coach will play you and this topic is moot. [/quote]

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