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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is youngest at age 11 and doesn't do anything with soccer outside of travel practices as none of her friends play soccer.  JUST this year at U13 she is always with the ball.  World Cup really held her interest and she watched entire games which she never had before.  She took a few personal training sessions in off season just this past year.  She's not in top club but steadily improving upwards. Last season she was the star striker on her team.  My point is you have no idea how he may evolve in the next 2-3 years.

So I say to you - at U9 it is waaaaaaay to early!  I can't tell you how many coaches have said to me you do not know until u12/13 what will happen.

Worst case scenario they play well enough for HS.  Worst case they are active and have fun and not on electronics all day.  Worst case they learn what commitment means with a heavy practice schedule, how to lose and why you win, they learn how to playa sport.

You really gotta lay off a kid at U9!!!!  [/quote]

U12/U13???  For boys it’s U16/17.

There are 5’2-5’4” Freshmen that will be 6 feet by Senior year.  A lot of the big guns stopped developing during middle school.  For my Senior-  the top Mlsnext, Ecnl teams look very very different than u9-u15.  Things change A LOT. [/quote]

No the top teams really don't change a lot.  They change a little bit.  Most of the top U19s in the area were also top U13s.[/quote]

Only at bad clubs.

If your boys’ roster on your mlsnext/ecnl boy team has not changed from U13 to U19 you are not providing appropriate competition and it’s status quo for the civil servants. [/quote]

Oh the rosters change quite a bit.  Kids move from one club to another and to and from DCU, and in and out of the area.  But if you had picked the top 20 kids in the DMV at U13, and you picked them again at U19 - at least fifteen of the original twenty would still be on the list as long as you account for the ones that left the region.

Lower down - within an individual ECNL/MLS Next roster for example - it may seem like there's more change - and in terms of position on the totem pole there probably is, but that's the nature of the bell curve for you.  A small percentage improvement moves you a great many more spots up or down once you get out of the tail of the distribution.  Still the kids abilities don't tend to change all that much.  A kid who was in the eighty-fifth percentile might end up in the ninetieth, and thus make a first team somewhere.  But he's exceedingly unlikely to end up in the ninety-eighth or ninety-ninth.  At least in my experience.[/quote]

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