re: First Soccer Mom “Karen” Experience

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If you are worried about the competition level of your kids 5-9ish then you might want to take a deep breath. You can make sure your kid is getting quality instruction in a bunch of ways. Sometimes in lesser leagues kids don't receive the best foundational instruction b/c there's some mom or dad forced into a coaching roll. I've always coached my kids in Y ball b/c we only want to play one game on the weekends and not 4. That doesn't mean I can't have a structured practice where my kids are learning how to play the game correctly. It just gives them more time to be kids at a young age.

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i dunno anything about soccer...like zero other than my youngest was an a-hole on the field and only wanted to play defense and tackle people


but i can say that in baseball....by 10, if you arent playing at a high level then you are going to be big time behind and its hard to catch up unless you put tons and tons of time in and lessons.

dont get me wrong, its very easy for a kid that is on a high level team to fall behind quickly too if they arent busting their arse outside of practice too.

i dunno if soccer is that away though. just saying the whole...dont be worried about competetion level at 9...doesnt apply to all sports unfortantely.

i wish LA had the funds like Texas to keep 25 or more freshman like the big texas schools do and allow kids to develop after puberty...unfortunately even 5a schools can really only keep 10-12 absolute max and most of the time its less than 10

sucks its like that and forces kids to really, not specialize, but focus on one sport early with the others playing secondary.

i know soccer is really really competitive at 11-14u and in private High schools, so would imagine its similar. All the kids i know that have played decently high level soccer in HS all were in club of some form by 7. My oldest has a kid that is going to europe all summer as he was invited by one of the clubs over there and he is only 7th grade. so it gets competitive stupid quickly too