Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid played on an MLS Next team for two years before quitting - prior to starting high school.
He had lost his passion for soccer, and he started to resent that all his time outside of school was dedicated to practice and weekend games.
He was a starter, had positive experiences with coaches, liked his teammates though wasn’t super bonded with them.
Since quitting he has played three dif HS sports though not soccer.
Hats off to the kids and families who keep up the travel soccer intensity into HS.

Your kid quit in Elementary school before serious soccer even began
What intensity was there to keep up mwith at U12 and U13?

MLSNext is U13 and U14 for the first years so middle school (7th and 8th). DS MLSNext U13 and there are 30+ games for the year, some weekends two games. It’s a lot. Unless you want to play high level D1 or pro, it’s a lot to ask from a kid

Such 1st world struggles and adversities 😂🤣

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid played on an MLS Next team for two years before quitting - prior to starting high school.
He had lost his passion for soccer, and he started to resent that all his time outside of school was dedicated to practice and weekend games.
He was a starter, had positive experiences with coaches, liked his teammates though wasn’t super bonded with them.
Since quitting he has played three dif HS sports though not soccer.
Hats off to the kids and families who keep up the travel soccer intensity into HS.

Your kid quit in Elementary school before serious soccer even began
What intensity was there to keep up mwith at U12 and U13?

MLSNext is U13 and U14 for the first years so middle school (7th and 8th). DS MLSNext U13 and there are 30+ games for the year, some weekends two games. It’s a lot. Unless you want to play high level D1 or pro, it’s a lot to ask from a kid

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid played on an MLS Next team for two years before quitting - prior to starting high school.
He had lost his passion for soccer, and he started to resent that all his time outside of school was dedicated to practice and weekend games.
He was a starter, had positive experiences with coaches, liked his teammates though wasn’t super bonded with them.
Since quitting he has played three dif HS sports though not soccer.
Hats off to the kids and families who keep up the travel soccer intensity into HS.

Your kid quit in Elementary school before serious soccer even began
What intensity was there to keep up mwith at U12 and U13?

Anonymous wrote:The top colleges including Ivy League has players who have good grades and made it through U18 and U19 in travel soccer at the intensity of highest levels.

So your kid quitting because ECNL was too demanding is weak

ijs

Anonymous wrote:My kid played on an MLS Next team for two years before quitting - prior to starting high school.
He had lost his passion for soccer, and he started to resent that all his time outside of school was dedicated to practice and weekend games.
He was a starter, had positive experiences with coaches, liked his teammates though wasn’t super bonded with them.
Since quitting he has played three dif HS sports though not soccer.
Hats off to the kids and families who keep up the travel soccer intensity into HS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many of the kids who quit on my daughter’s team were once the top players who developed early(in terms of their game) and then they got passed by the kids who used to be on lower level teams.

They couldn’t handle it, the parents couldn’t accept it and pushed them harder and they eventually quit, mostly because of their parents not being able to handle it and accept the fact that they weren’t what they thought they were or once were.

These days too many kids hit puberty early (which is not healthy) and they excel at sports for a few years. Then, all the kids on the normal track of growth (who are smaller in comparison) focus on skill. Once those kids hit puberty they surpass the prior bigger/faster kids around 7-9th grade because the kids who hit puberty early (most) never really focused on skill. They excelled on size and speed which was matched later on by the smaller kids with 3-5 years of skill already trained.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:EDP (not ECNL or MLS-Next). Due to varsity coach.

Varsity school coach told them to quit?

Nah just took all the joy out of playing.

Constant pressure to train more, move to a better Club team etc. Too much grind.

That plus wanting to do well on APs and SAT, and do activities that will help get into college, since not going to be recruited for soccer as EDP player.

That's why my DS quit. Plus overuse injuries which impacted track & field.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:EDP (not ECNL or MLS-Next). Due to varsity coach.

Varsity school coach told them to quit?

Nah just took all the joy out of playing.

Constant pressure to train more, move to a better Club team etc. Too much grind.

That plus wanting to do well on APs and SAT, and do activities that will help get into college, since not going to be recruited for soccer as EDP player.

Anonymous wrote:Many of the kids who quit on my daughter’s team were once the top players who developed early(in terms of their game) and then they got passed by the kids who used to be on lower level teams.

They couldn’t handle it, the parents couldn’t accept it and pushed them harder and they eventually quit, mostly because of their parents not being able to handle it and accept the fact that they weren’t what they thought they were or once were.