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To some extent, that's true. But when you take it to extreme, you breed quitters. "I left Club X because the coach made me work hard" is the precursor to "I quit a good job because my boss made me work hard."[/quote]

I'm not the poster you were replying to immediately above, but wanted to respond to this point.  I've never heard of a situation in which someone left Club X and switched to a new club because a coach made him work too hard. In that case, they just quit travel soccer.  Most of the reasons kids commonly switch clubs are ones that I'd think most of us would respect in the job context:  Kid is not being challenged and has ambitions beyond what the current team or club can help with; coach doesn't recognize kid's abilities and is promoting less talented people over him; or kid prefers a different soccer community or style of play.

If a child has little talent, and is club-hopping because he has parents who are delusional about his abilities, that's one thing, but I don't think that's very common at the older age groups. [/quote]

Fine -- then substitute "the coach made me play left back" or "the coach wouldn't let me skip practice so I could go to lacrosse practice." (Seriously, that's an issue some places.) Or "the coach doesn't recognize that I'm the next Landon Donovan."

Back to Arlington: The funny thing is that it's already drawing from a large population. I've seen people on this board say Vienna (population 16,370) is underachieving. Population of Arlington: 224,906. Surely they can find 18 kids per age group that can hold their own in CCL, NCSL or WAGS.[/quote]

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