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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i dont understand why parents dont get the hierarchy and accept it. its club first. then player. then team. anyone complaining about players getting challenges and opportunities by temporarily playing on a higher (or lower) team, not sure what the issue is. You and your child should welcome the opportunity created by that situation/void. Sure, you can look at it as being left alone or maybe it's time to show a team is not just that 1 or 2 kids. If it was, then perhaps those kids deserved to have that opportunity.

I also dont think it's so bad to have kids being trained by professionals at a very early age. Even in REC it was apparent what kids were being trained by parent coaches who emphasized skills development and learning to take chances/opportunities (translate to taking a defender on and going to goal).  Just because  kid wants a social hour and the parent doesnt want real competition doesnt mean that everything at u6-u9 has to be that way. My DD at u8 only wanted to play at other fields, wanted to travel and play tournaments, she was having fun at REC level but she and her team loved to play and were clobbering 9 of the 10 teams. Separating those kids would only have frustrated everyone as all those kids on her team werent all athletes dominating, they were passing, dribbling and moving off the ball befuase of fundamentals others hadnt gotten yet and some still hadnt gotten years later in travel. Wasnt alwsys the travel coaches fault either, lots of players just not progressing. even at clinics they werwnt trying hard and it showed.

If I had known about the resources of professional training earlier, i would have taken it, ironically my kid wanted games and tournaments, academies dont do that. So excited to go and play her heart out with her teammates.

Unfortunately resources arent equal and infinite and prioritizing is naturally going to happen. A club can’t cater to every single person, and every kid isnt at the same place in development. If ASA isnt doing it for you, so many travel teams in the area.

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I can tell you why in my case.  This behemoth of a program serves our kids poorly, doesn't serve some at all, and absorbs a tremendous amount of county resources that could otherwise be shared more equitably among those of us who play tax here.  Try talking to people who are involved with smaller programs in town about their struggles getting resources and fields.  This crazy big travel program means that a) fewer kids in our town get a decent soccer program at a fair price, b) fewer kids with other interests (ultimate, rugby, and all the other small programs in town) can get onto a field, c) there are no opportunities for kids who just like to kick a ball around with friends, and d) when we were involved, the program seemed to care not one iota for running things leaner so that those with too much money for aid, but not enough money to easily participate, could feel at home.

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