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    Does not matter good of a player your kids is they will not be able to beat town politics!

    #2
    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    Does not matter good of a player your kids is they will not be able to beat town politics!
    I hate your town.

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      #3
      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
      Does not matter good of a player your kids is they will not be able to beat town politics!
      Your town is the worstest.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        Does not matter good of a player your kids is they will not be able to beat town politics!
        That's why you need to have your kid up their dedication and their game and move to club soccer. Town politics in large part goes away but not all politics does. The club politics of kid X needs to be placed on a better team than they really deserve because his older sibling is a stud and we don't want to piss the family off and lose the older one comes into play. But that's a small price to pay to get rid of town politics and coaches who are in it for the "W" and getting playing time for kids of their buddies and to impress the hot moms in their town.

        Either that or retire from soccer and sign the kid up for lacrosse or robotics.

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          #5
          Politics happens in club soccer too

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            #6
            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            Politics happens in club soccer too
            It can, but way less than some town programs. Skill is more likely to win out, no volunteers in it to give their kid an advantage

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              #7
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              It can, but way less than some town programs. Skill is more likely to win out, no volunteers in it to give their kid an advantage
              Volunteers in club soccer are called “ team managers”.

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                #8
                ... or called coaches in some clubs but that's relatively rare and when that happens they usually don't show their own kid any favoritism.

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                  #9
                  Honestly, the faster you can get out, the better, either into club or another sport. We even had parent coaches as evaluators at our town tryouts. Of course, their kids, along with all of their best buddies, ended up placed on the top team every year (a team which no outside kids could crack since U8). At club, the stress caused by politics drops significantly. As another poster mentioned, there is always the younger sibling of a star player who ends up being included on the top team undeservedly, but that's one kid per team, rather than the majority of the team. Good luck!

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                    It can, but way less than some town programs. Skill is more likely to win out, no volunteers in it to give their kid an advantage
                    Daddy coaching at OW shows you are wrong.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by unregistered View Post
                      daddy coaching at ow shows you are wrong.
                      very wrong!

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                        #12
                        Club politics is less about connections and more about money. You will hear stories of parents "donating" vast sums to make sure their kid plays the position they want or to start every game. i have seen some real head scratching roster decisions and it always comes out later that the parents backed the truck up. That and the aforementioned stud sibling bullsh-t.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          very wrong!
                          U poor thing, how r u ever going to survive? Nxt time, scope out what position the coach's kids play, and if your kid likes those positions, try out for another club. It's not rocket science.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            Club politics is less about connections and more about money. You will hear stories of parents "donating" vast sums to make sure their kid plays the position they want or to start every game. i have seen some real head scratching roster decisions and it always comes out later that the parents backed the truck up. That and the aforementioned stud sibling bullsh-t.
                            I don't buy the money story, at least in terms of established clubs.

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                              #15
                              I love the obsession with OW. tough way to live, which means you have no life. BTW, my kid does not go to any of the "big 3".

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