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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand how redshirting can help soccer. Doesn’t the soccer league have a cut off date too? My son has a late aug birthday, we redshirted him. He is with his grade mates in soccer, since the cut off for soccer was early Aug. [/quote]

Generally people who redshirt do not harbor regrets, but people who do not redshirt may later come to regret their decision.

My one regret about redshirting my athletic, intelligent, very small and behavioral / emotional issues son has to do with soccer.  He is a travel player on a top NCSL team, but plays with the kids mostly in a grade above him.  We'd love to have him play soccer with his classmates in Rec soccer, but that is not fun for anyone, since he was held back from scoring, or benched most of the time to avoid blow away scores.  Luckily, he is only average in basketball, and can play with his friends, and there is no clear advantage.

Reshirting him gave him a lot of confidence and is popular in his class, we did not know at the time he would be academic.  Overall, would do it again, but now I realize I didn't do for what I thought was best for him, I was doing it to exercise my white privilege.[/quote]

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