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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS’s rec soccer team is really good, but they add players if there is space on the team. Maybe the friend’s team’s roster is full with the kids from previous seasons. [/quote]

Nope roster is not full, registration just opened. [/quote]

Our league doesn't assign teams until registration is over - are you sure that isn't the situation here?[/quote]

OP here- same. Teams not assigned yet. Like I said before director is happy to place him with his friends but the coach and parents don’t want that.

To other posters who say he can play on a different team. Yes he can but when my dc and his friends have been talking about my dc joining their team since fall it doesn’t feel good. Yes its not so bad, i came here to see if rec sports can be so competitive and ‘selective’ that its so difficult for a new young player to play with his friends. I got my answer. Thanks for your responses [/quote]

I understand that it doesn't feel good, DS was not happy when he couldn't play with his friends because they were born in a different year (6 months a part in actual age). And he wasn't happy when he ended up on the "all new to the league" team. But he had good coaches who made the game fun.

Playing a sport is a combination of playing with friends and playing competitively. Some kids, or their parents, take it more seriously then others. My kid couldn't play soccer with his friends because too many parents were intentionally holding kids back in school so that their kid would be the oldest on sports teams. The leagues dealt with that my changing the sign up requirements from grade level to birth year and rigidly enforcing it. I have no clue if that actually has impacted red shirting in schools but it is impacting who the kids can play certain sports with. DS is 6 months younger then a lot of his friends and in a different birth year so he rarely gets to play with his friends. He still enjoys rec sports.

It sucks that your child thought he would be able to play with his friend(s). I wouldn't put it all on the Coach or the Parents. The kids could be saying one thing to your son and then telling their parents something else because they don't want to be the ones hurting your sons feelings. [/quote]

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