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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have this same question but for boys!  It seems like if your kid plays soccer as a kindergartner on a mini-kicks style rec team, and has fun, and is good at it, the expectation is  to have him in competitive U8 travel ball by second grade, and if you opt out of that, all that's left of the rec program by age 7 or 8 is the kids who have never played soccer before, or the kids without much athletic talent or much desire to play, since all of the moderately athletic kids who enjoy sports have moved on to a travel team.  there seems to be zero middle ground between training for 6 hours a week, and kicking the ball around without a purpose with kids who don't want to be there.  at age 7. [/quote]

Sadly, I feel this is true. I blame the so called non-profits who get exclusive use of the county turf fields and run the rec programs.  Then, they use the rec programs to heavily recruit and promote FOMO for their travel program. They take most of the rec kids and tun the rec kids into 2k per year travel kids.  -The rec program is decimated and no one really wants to play it by u13.[/quote]

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