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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe the teams should try harder to keep players? Why is it all on the players?[/quote]

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I think the reason I'm asking this is that this isn't the club's fault.  We moved and picked a team during a pandemic.  In normal circumstances, my kid would have been in school and able to ask other kids who they played for.  But he wasn't in school because of the pandemic and high risk family members.  We might have gone to different games to see what we teams were matches.  But spectators weren't allowed.  So, we made a decision with very little information.

The reasons the club isn't a great fit have to do with match of level, and wanting to play with school friends.  Both are things that we would have flagged in a non-pandemic year.  But they aren't the club's fault. The coach is fine, the club is fine.  I don't blame them at all.  It's just that the other program is a better match.  [/quote]

After having three kids play travel soccer over the course of 11 years, I would tell you that youth soccer clubs are businesses first and foremost.  If you get lucky, you find a club and a coach that's a good fit for your child and you stay there for many happy years.  But if that's not the case, you need to do what's best for your family.  Finish the current season, move to the new club and don't worry about whether other people think your decision is "ethical" or "selfish".[/quote]

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