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Does anyone have advice for how to handle offers for teams from two good clubs when you are still waiting to find out which team you will be placed on at one club

Is there a right and wrong way?
It makes a difference because we would pick club A if they put him on a certain team with certain coach and friends, otherwise we would go with B

Both are equally convenient and no other factors that can push us one way or the other
This is for U9
TIA

Anonymous wrote:What pathetic lives some people on this board have.

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Anonymous wrote:You parents are wound up to tight. People are free to speak their mind. If you don't like it perhaps you should go hide in your car like the other weak parents.

I'd prefer you shut the hell up because you know nothing. When you scream at other people's kids for "passing back" or dribbling out of the back when there is nobody near the kid for miles you show your fat ignorance of the game. Tearing down another little kid to build your own up is weak. At least the parents in the car aren't out there kissing ass like you. Mwah, mwah, "hey coach, what can I do for you coach? Should I bend over?"In fact, the parents are in their cars to avoid your tiresome shit.

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Anonymous wrote:U9 parent in Arlington here (the one with all the questions about U9 travel soccer and schedules). Thanks to everyone for their input. I really appreciate it.

This seems like a LOT for a second grader (next year), but I understand that the only way we can tell whether it is worth it is by giving it a try for a year. Still undecided about whether to do that, or just default to ADP now. But that's my problem. Thanks to you all for being so helpful!

Some advice

Find out which team you are on and research the coach. Go watch some of his/her current trainings. The quality and personality of the coach is probably the key to whether you will come back next year. Travel is a HUGE commitment, there is nothing really optional (lots of missed bday parties, vacations planned AROUND travel commitments, etc.) even at U9.

If great coach and teammates, these things won't be viewed as sacrifices and you may decide to become a travel soccer family. But, if training is poor, coach not reinforcing the development you want, and/or you can't play well as a team in at least a handful of games (play, not results), then you will probably not come back.

The cost of travel is not the dollars, but your time. We loved it at U9, but gave up many extracurricular things. No way around that.

FINALLY, ignore the negativity from posters caught up in the team makeups, or think the club is corrupt. Most parents are fine, supportive, and realistic about their player. Sounds like you are too. But there are some parents who do complain about this stuff and think there is some conspiracy against their player or that they got outsmarted by some other parent. You will see these parents at the U9 meeting if you decide to accept. You see them complain on this board about tryouts and everything else. From our experience, these players and families become known within the club in a year or two, and their player as it turns out was average at best. Just enjoy the season and ignore them. Other clubs we have been at have these same parents. U9 tryouts seem to bring out the worst in people.

Good luck.

I agree. From our experience, the big CCL clubs attract the worst of them. I think because people are under the false assumption that they do something better in the younger years. They also are so large there isn't a lot of personal attention or a feeling that whatever complaints a team has as a whole are being heard. That creates dissatisfaction for some. Some actually leave because OF THE PARENTS, not the Club or the Coach. There are some real crazies out there---you will eventually see their true colors.

its because there are so many teams at ccl clubs. take the same boy or girl, same skills, and if they is on A team, they are magically happy, but a lower C team??, they get pissed!!, and rhen start watching other teams practice, comparing their kid to higher players, and all the crap. never mind that their kid has same ability in the end, and neither team is going to make them exponentially better ... or worse.
that was what made us sick; crazy grown-ups comparing little boys and girls. look at all the pps talking about a stupid U9 tryout at one of the biggest CCL clubs and comparing who should be where and who is on what end of the field.

run, don't walk.

this was us too. the minute I heard the player bashing anytime a kid was asked to guest play up. I was done. I didn't want my kids in that environment. I didn't want myself in that environment.

What the parents on the team they are guest playing on say is even worse a lot of the time. They see the kid as a threat to their own child's placement. The kids won't pass to the guest player either.

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Anonymous wrote:You parents are wound up to tight. People are free to speak their mind. If you don't like it perhaps you should go hide in your car like the other weak parents.

I'd prefer you shut the hell up because you know nothing. When you scream at other people's kids for "passing back" or dribbling out of the back when there is nobody near the kid for miles you show your fat ignorance of the game. Tearing down another little kid to build your own up is weak. At least the parents in the car aren't out there kissing ass like you. Mwah, mwah, "hey coach, what can I do for you coach? Should I bend over?"In fact, the parents are in their cars to avoid your tiresome shit.

Anonymous wrote:You parents are wound up to tight. People are free to speak their mind. If you don't like it perhaps you should go hide in your car like the other weak parents.

Anonymous wrote:You parents are wound up to tight. People are free to speak their mind. If you don't like it perhaps you should go hide in your car like the other weak parents.

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Anonymous wrote:Crap my kid guest plays up every so often. Does that mean he is getting bad mouthed?? I have never seen that type of behavior on our sidelines one way or another. The only way you could know about it is if you engage in that sort of discussion. I would say its ok to observe and comment on strong and weak players...I would not consider that bad mouthing by any means.

There you have it. Parents saying the kid is weak and shouldn't be there. The coach pulled him up or down. Shut your mouth.

It's assholish to be talking about kids.

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Anonymous wrote:How can a kid get to travel soccer if he did not get in at younger age? My son is 10, was in a Fall. He did not get in last year and this year. He just wants to get a dissent training and play games. House soccer is not challenging him. Where do we go? I would not want to travel far during week though. It will burn both of us fast. Any suggestions?

Where do you live?

McLean.

Premier AC

Thank you! If you have more suggestions, I will greatly appriciate them.

Get elite training, go to HP Elite, do coercer, of to SNF Academy, go to Karl Gibbons in Manassas, if he's aggressive than what he needs is bit more skill. If he's 10 and rec is not challenging him he's probably already strong and fast, doesn't take much to beat rec kids since any kid with parents willing to pay can be on a travel team.

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Anonymous wrote:Crap my kid guest plays up every so often. Does that mean he is getting bad mouthed?? I have never seen that type of behavior on our sidelines one way or another. The only way you could know about it is if you engage in that sort of discussion. I would say its ok to observe and comment on strong and weak players...I would not consider that bad mouthing by any means.

There you have it. Parents saying the kid is weak and shouldn't be there. The coach pulled him up or down. Shut your mouth.

It's assholish to be talking about kids.

And this ultimately leads to complaints about player placements and who doesn't deserve to be where....

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Anonymous wrote:Crap my kid guest plays up every so often. Does that mean he is getting bad mouthed?? I have never seen that type of behavior on our sidelines one way or another. The only way you could know about it is if you engage in that sort of discussion. I would say its ok to observe and comment on strong and weak players...I would not consider that bad mouthing by any means.

There you have it. Parents saying the kid is weak and shouldn't be there. The coach pulled him up or down. Shut your mouth.

It's assholish to be talking about kids.