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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostI think these responses are just hilarious. "You first decide what you hope to get out of club soccer." That is completely the wrong approach. You should not plan to "get" anything out of a sport for your kid other than life lessons - how to get along with people, how to handle disappointments, discipline, the value of hard work, etc. Your kid should be doing it for no reason other than to have fun. There were about 388k girls playing high school soccer in 2017. Of those just 9% play some kind of college soccer but only 2% have a chance to play in division one schools. The chances of making a national team are microscopic. If you pay your money, and at the end of the season your kid has had a good time, learnt something, made friends, and wants to play next year it was worth it.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostI think these responses are just hilarious. "You first decide what you hope to get out of club soccer." That is completely the wrong approach. You should not plan to "get" anything out of a sport for your kid other than life lessons - how to get along with people, how to handle disappointments, discipline, the value of hard work, etc. Your kid should be doing it for no reason other than to have fun. There were about 388k girls playing high school soccer in 2017. Of those just 9% play some kind of college soccer but only 2% have a chance to play in division one schools. The chances of making a national team are microscopic. If you pay your money, and at the end of the season your kid has had a good time, learnt something, made friends, and wants to play next year it was worth it.
Biggest issue with girls soccer is that recruiting happens earlier and earlier so if girls want to play in college hey have to get onto better teams earlier and earlier. They might not even know for sure if they want to play in college or at what level, but the pressure to get locked in early is ever present. It's very tough to break into a top team after a certain age.
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