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Anonymous wrote:Attention 2010 Male Rec Players!
After receiving multiple inquiries from players who had to miss a tryout session, we have added one more session for the rising 9U Boys on Thursday, May 24th from 5:15pm–6:30pm at Long Bridge Park #4. We have room to add 6-10 players to this age group. Players need to be born in 2010.
Players who missed the previous sessions and those who attended the previous sessions and were not selected, are all welcome and encouraged to attend.
If you were registered for tryouts already there is no need to register. If you were not registered, please register in advance. Here is the link to the Travel Page of our website. Take a look at the information about our program.
Please register for tryouts before attending the session (it's free!) We hope to see you on the field!

Arlington rec players don’t fall for the bait. Arlington is only looking to line their pockets. Your kid will end up on the silver team with horrible development for the price. Arlington is so desperate it’s embarassing

You mean Gold. Thee are 6 teams, correct?

Red
White
Blue
Black
Good
Silver

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Attention 2010 Male Rec Players!
After receiving multiple inquiries from players who had to miss a tryout session, we have added one more session for the rising 9U Boys on Thursday, May 24th from 5:15pm–6:30pm at Long Bridge Park #4. We have room to add 6-10 players to this age group. Players need to be born in 2010.
Players who missed the previous sessions and those who attended the previous sessions and were not selected, are all welcome and encouraged to attend.
If you were registered for tryouts already there is no need to register. If you were not registered, please register in advance. Here is the link to the Travel Page of our website. Take a look at the information about our program.
Please register for tryouts before attending the session (it's free!) We hope to see you on the field!

Arlington rec players don’t fall for the bait. Arlington is only looking to line their pockets. Your kid will end up on the silver team with horrible development for the price. Arlington is so desperate it’s embarassing

You mean Gold. Thee are 6 teams, correct?

Not PP. Correct, Gold is the F team. On another thread it explains that there is always a need to fill six teams under the business model. On the girls side, everyone that shows gets to play on a travel team, or at least 99% that show.

If you had less then 6 teams, then there is not enough revenue to justify all the layers of coaching. i don't think they are trying to hide this fact though.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Attention 2010 Male Rec Players!
After receiving multiple inquiries from players who had to miss a tryout session, we have added one more session for the rising 9U Boys on Thursday, May 24th from 5:15pm–6:30pm at Long Bridge Park #4. We have room to add 6-10 players to this age group. Players need to be born in 2010.
Players who missed the previous sessions and those who attended the previous sessions and were not selected, are all welcome and encouraged to attend.
If you were registered for tryouts already there is no need to register. If you were not registered, please register in advance. Here is the link to the Travel Page of our website. Take a look at the information about our program.
Please register for tryouts before attending the session (it's free!) We hope to see you on the field!

Arlington rec players don’t fall for the bait. Arlington is only looking to line their pockets. Your kid will end up on the silver team with horrible development for the price. Arlington is so desperate it’s embarassing

You mean Gold. Thee are 6 teams, correct?

Anonymous wrote:Attention 2010 Male Rec Players!
After receiving multiple inquiries from players who had to miss a tryout session, we have added one more session for the rising 9U Boys on Thursday, May 24th from 5:15pm–6:30pm at Long Bridge Park #4. We have room to add 6-10 players to this age group. Players need to be born in 2010.
Players who missed the previous sessions and those who attended the previous sessions and were not selected, are all welcome and encouraged to attend.
If you were registered for tryouts already there is no need to register. If you were not registered, please register in advance. Here is the link to the Travel Page of our website. Take a look at the information about our program.
Please register for tryouts before attending the session (it's free!) We hope to see you on the field!

Arlington rec players don’t fall for the bait. Arlington is only looking to line their pockets. Your kid will end up on the silver team with horrible development for the price. Arlington is so desperate it’s embarassing

Attention 2010 Male Rec Players!
After receiving multiple inquiries from players who had to miss a tryout session, we have added one more session for the rising 9U Boys on Thursday, May 24th from 5:15pm–6:30pm at Long Bridge Park #4. We have room to add 6-10 players to this age group. Players need to be born in 2010.
Players who missed the previous sessions and those who attended the previous sessions and were not selected, are all welcome and encouraged to attend.
If you were registered for tryouts already there is no need to register. If you were not registered, please register in advance. Here is the link to the Travel Page of our website. Take a look at the information about our program.
Please register for tryouts before attending the session (it's free!) We hope to see you on the field!

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Anonymous wrote:I always tell my players “the effort is non-negotiable” before every game. It truly is the one thing you can always control.

My biggest pet peeve when watching a game are the players that just don't seem to care. They play with zero passion. Sometimes they are good players, but they don't have the drive.

There are a few on my kid's team that I would like to run out on the field and give a good kick in the a** or yell what my dad used to yell at me when he coached me and I was slacking "you want to go sit in the car?!" This is for middle schoolers/high schoolers, btw, not 8-year olds.

The other pet peeve are the kids that can't stay on their g-damn feet. There is one kid on my son's U10 team that is literally on the ground 95% of the game. When my kids were playing rec and they did that, my husband and I would yell 'get up'. My husband always told them that you are ineffective on the ground. My dad turned to us at what game and said "he just got knocked down hard do you think he has springs on his a**? " But, by the time they started travel they pretty much never went down and when they did they were right back up (barring major injury).

The smallest kid on my son's U10 is the toughest. It's near impossible to knock him off the ball and I've seen him take some brutal hits and get right back up. He stands up for himself too--somebody pulls him down by the shirt or aggressively grabs him--you better watch the h*ll out. Some of the big ones on our team have a "major injury" anytime they get a hard tackle and have to be carried off the field. There is never anything wrong. They could earn Oscar's for that acting. You soon learn which kids are crying wolf all of the time.

Anonymous wrote:I always tell my players “the effort is non-negotiable” before every game. It truly is the one thing you can always control.

My biggest pet peeve when watching a game are the players that just don't seem to care. They play with zero passion. Sometimes they are good players, but they don't have the drive.

There are a few on my kid's team that I would like to run out on the field and give a good kick in the a** or yell what my dad used to yell at me when he coached me and I was slacking "you want to go sit in the car?!" This is for middle schoolers/high schoolers, btw, not 8-year olds.

The other pet peeve are the kids that can't stay on their g-damn feet. There is one kid on my son's U10 team that is literally on the ground 95% of the game. When my kids were playing rec and they did that, my husband and I would yell 'get up'. My husband always told them that you are ineffective on the ground. My dad turned to us at what game and said "he just got knocked down hard do you think he has springs on his a**? " But, by the time they started travel they pretty much never went down and when they did they were right back up (barring major injury).

I always tell my players “the effort is non-negotiable” before every game. It truly is the one thing you can always control.

^^ in this area, it's hard work on the part of their parent's lobbying and brown-nosing. People can say otherwise, but it's true 99% of the time. All things being equal amongst players, the one with the pushy parents is the one that gets picked.

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn't it feel good to decline an offer from a club that didn't place your kid correctly during tryouts and accept the right offer from another club instead?

The Michael Jordan effect.

I still love to see Jordan decades later call out the Coach that cut him .

Again, many of those types of experiences are what drive a player on.

Michael Jordan got cut (wasn't picked for) form the varsity as a freshman but made the jv, it is a story that has been embellished over the years.

Read your share of sports autobiographies by professionals in any sport, most pros faced adversity in some form on the path to greatness---getting cut, politics, death in family, toxic coach, etc.

Or, often it's a major growth spurt down the road that was a turning point in development.

What's the number one trait they all had? Strong work ethic, practiced on their own night and day.

Yes, you won't reach the professional level without God-given genetic gifts---but at a certain level when all things equal. It's who works the hardest. Read about Ronaldo's training and work ethic.

At the plebian level that most of our kids are at, hard work will set kids apart by HS.

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn't it feel good to decline an offer from a club that didn't place your kid correctly during tryouts and accept the right offer from another club instead?

The Michael Jordan effect.

I still love to see Jordan decades later call out the Coach that cut him .

Again, many of those types of experiences are what drive a player on.

Michael Jordan got cut (wasn't picked for) form the varsity as a freshman but made the jv, it is a story that has been embellished over the years.

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't it feel good to decline an offer from a club that didn't place your kid correctly during tryouts and accept the right offer from another club instead?

The Michael Jordan effect.

I still love to see Jordan decades later call out the Coach that cut him .

Again, many of those types of experiences are what drive a player on.

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Anonymous wrote:So is it true that the clubs only care about the 3-4 top players on the top team? I know it’s true with the coach at our club. I do not think most of the parent see it. Too caught up about being on the top team.

Have seen multiple sides of this with my kid. Has been considered one of the strongest player on a few teams and a peripheral player on other teams. Had coaches that treated all players fairly equally and coaches that clearly favored some players based on level of play and other factors.

So far my observation is that the coaches who strongly favor and only seem to care about some players create a bad team environment and a lot of dissatisfaction. Right now my kid is probably one of the stronger players on a team where the coach treats all players fairly equally. Every once in a while I catch myself thinking why isn't my kid getting this or that. Then I remember what a crummy atmosphere that creates and trust the coach to figure it out.

+100 We have had 2 kids in travel soccer, and other kids in other travel sports. We have seen the spectrum - both from where our kids are (top or bottom) and where the coaches are (treat evenly, favor the strongest, favor the politics - you name it). Some coaches are good at treating players fairly/equally and creating the right culture - with kids and parents. Kids can thrive, and not solely from a sports sense. It maybe rare, if reading these boards, but f you can find that environment, its a blessing. Knowing what I know now, I would do more due diligence on the club/coach for that. You can still end up with something that doesn't work - but it's worth a try.

We've been with big Clubs and fairly smaller ones. I always see a few players completely lionized at age 8-9. They are the next great Messi. This tends to be at the Big/medium Clubs. The kids are treated differently by everyone in the Club. Sometimes they have older siblings on top teams, sometimes their Nationality seems to grab the attention---I mean, isn't everyone that speaks Spanish a fantastic soccer player?

By U13, most of these kids are not around. Some are fat and lazy by then. Most get eclipsed by kids that are developing, changing over time---and, more importantly, have a very strong work ethic.

When my kids started out and I pointed out one so 'superstar' to my dad who coached Travel for decades, he told me he saw a million kids like that and they don't usually pan out. Well, that one 'superstar' now at U13 isn't even playing anymore.

In my household, my younger Child was treated really special by his Coaches when he started at the travel Club. They even used to call him 'little Pele'. The kid does have charisma. My other child, quiet, shy and modest, was basically ignored no matter how well he was doing and leading his, albeit, lower team.

Flash forward 6 years later, and guess which one of my kids is exceling? My younger one really doesn't care much or put in time on his own. Once kids started catching up to him, he kind of settled for status quo. My older one was always in the backyard trying to improve. He is determined to accomplish skills. He spent one frustrating summer at age 9 trying to get 10 consistent juggles, but he never gave up and 6 months later he was doing 1,000. He just mastered the 'around the World'---youtube after youtube video. He is always playing 'wall ball'. Sometimes it's time to leave for practice and I can't find him...he's out in the backyard practicing before he goes to practice.

Where is my younger one? Snuck downstairs to play Fortnite on Xbox.

Coaches really need to be careful how they treat kids when developing. But, sometimes, I think the overall shitty treatment my first one got is the reason he is so determined. For instance, he would do everything asked of him to move up and then 10 times more and nothing would happen. He would get played up and be the one that scored all the goals and nothing happened. His Coaches would tell those in the Group that this kid needed to move up--dead ears. He did have a few great mentors along the way, lower team Coaches that believed in him and kept his spirits up and we made sure to find places for him to train with Coaches that believed in him. He's now surpassed all those kids in the Club he left that were the young stars. But, he never thinks he's good enough and always wants to improve and his determination/passion which a lot of times was mistaken for 'mental weakness' by early coaches has been the biggest key to his improvement. It's been a good lesson of perseverance and grit.

I am a big proponent of a developmental model that gives every kid a chance throughout U9-U12, the Iceland way. When you sort and cut some kids off early and banish them to the lower teams and don't give them equal time, you just might have missed out on a kid that could have developed into something great.

Doesn't it feel good to decline an offer from a club that didn't place your kid correctly during tryouts and accept the right offer from another club instead?

why don't you ask?