Changing clubs

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Hello-
Thoughts on changing clubs as a high school sophomore? At that point, is it best to just stick it out or do players make moves later in high school.

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DM is a cheat and a liar, and wheres silly hats....

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Hello-
Thoughts on changing clubs as a high school sophomore? At that point, is it best to just stick it out or do players make moves later in high school.

Is the current club serving your needs? If not, go ahead and change clubs. If so, then why change?

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The club climate is one of intimidation and punishment. Nothing can be questioned or the players are ridiculed. Maybe that is just club soccer? We aren’t sure.

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Hello-
Thoughts on changing clubs as a high school sophomore? At that point, is it best to just stick it out or do players make moves later in high school.

Too much of an open ended question. Why are you thinking about changing and more importantly what is your daughters end game?

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The club climate is one of intimidation and punishment. Nothing can be questioned or the players are ridiculed. Maybe that is just club soccer? We aren’t sure.

If that is the climate, why did you stay this long?

But as another said, it depends on your kid’s goals and what your options are.

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The club climate is one of intimidation and punishment. Nothing can be questioned or the players are ridiculed. Maybe that is just club soccer? We aren’t sure.

Get out. Life is short and the remaining days of HS and club soccer are short as well. Why stay somewhere your kid isn't happy? Just don't wait until official "tryouts". Start reaching out to clubs now to attend some practices when able, see a few games when the season starts.

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I guess I would like to hear other peoples’ experience at club - can you reach out to the coach? Does the coach seem interested in your child’s development ? Is there a lot of screaming? Blaming players?
Also... anyone have a player who moved clubs so late ?

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Unless the original poster and responses are going to get into more specific details like naming current club and options, which I don’t recommend, this thread is kind of pointless.

Let’s get back to the culture of cheating that is nurtured at PSA

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The club climate is one of intimidation and punishment. Nothing can be questioned or the players are ridiculed. Maybe that is just club soccer? We aren’t sure.

Pretty simple look for an option that does not involve what you describe. Even though there are many clubs that operate by intimidating and deceiving there are still limited options out there where good people are involved that truly care for the kids and treat them fairly. Best bet is to talk to the coach and get a feel; if you can’t do that then you know it’s not a good environment. Also ask to speak to some existing families on the team that usually is a good indicator as well. Good luck!

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I guess I would like to hear other peoples’ experience at club - can you reach out to the coach? Does the coach seem interested in your child’s development ? Is there a lot of screaming? Blaming players?
Also... anyone have a player who moved clubs so late ?

D played for two clubs, 1st was township club for U7-10, then bigger club from U11-U18. Generally happy with the experience overall, always had good communications with the coaches (team changed coaches ever 2 years; actually became good friends with two of them). D plays at strong D3 college now. Only drama at the club came from the helicopter parents who complained about playing time and such (team was pretty balanced, so every player played at least 3/4 of every game).

I know more than a handful of players who moved clubs during high school, but admittedly they were moving from club to club before high school too. In the end, they ended up fine in the college-recruiting game, too.

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I guess I would like to hear other peoples’ experience at club - can you reach out to the coach? Does the coach seem interested in your child’s development ? Is there a lot of screaming? Blaming players?
Also... anyone have a player who moved clubs so late ?

Again, it all depends on your daughters end game. Either playing a sport or any other activity it should always be about having fun and looking forward to training or continuing attending that experience. Most importantly, what does your daughter want? Does she want to continue to play soccer in college? Too many variables.

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Again, it all depends on your daughters end game. Either playing a sport or any other activity it should always be about having fun and looking forward to training or continuing attending that experience. Most importantly, what does your daughter want? Does she want to continue to play soccer in college? Too many variables.

Yes cause moving from one run of the mill academy to another really checks the box in terms of “playing in college”. If the environment is not good and the kid is not enjoying herself “playing in college” is irrelevant. But so often it’s used as a sales pitch to mask the reality of the situation (I.e. either not good environment or training or both). Find a situation that’s good and the rest will take care of itself as they say.

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Yes cause moving from one run of the mill academy to another really checks the box in terms of “playing in college”. If the environment is not good and the kid is not enjoying herself “playing in college” is irrelevant. But so often it’s used as a sales pitch to mask the reality of the situation (I.e. either not good environment or training or both). Find a situation that’s good and the rest will take care of itself as they say.

On the one hand, I agree. On the other hand, i do know someone who changed clubs in high school, and the issue it caused was that her new coach did not know her very well, so when it came time for her coach to communicate with a college coach, he was not able to be as in-depth about her as a player. So "playing in college" does have an impact; how much of an impact is certainly debatable.

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On the one hand, I agree. On the other hand, i do know someone who changed clubs in high school, and the issue it caused was that her new coach did not know her very well, so when it came time for her coach to communicate with a college coach, he was not able to be as in-depth about her as a player. So "playing in college" does have an impact; how much of an impact is certainly debatable.

My daughter’s club strung us along with good feedback until the time came to see if she can play and at what level. It turned out she got zero interest from D1, after indications from her coaches was that she was “definitely a D1 player”. The mistake we made was not to proactively reach out to D1 clubs ourselves and get feedback by attending their camps early on. At the end of the day she only received mild interest from low level D3, and ended up going to a D1 school but only playing club soccer there. Quite a journey a learning experience for sure one that we’ll use with my son as he’s just entering HS next Fall.