Your kid has endless opportunities in this game. ECNL, BECNL, DA, GDA, OYSA, Academies, Futsal, High School.
Here is the truth: your kid won’t go pro. Your kid may play in college.
The single best indicator of how far your kid will go? How much time they spend with the ball. Are they enthralled with it? Do you have to tell them to stop playing with it in the house? Do they beg you to go outside to play? All these to annoying levels, not cute levels. Annoying. They are addicted. Can’t get enough. Depressed when practice is canceled. Depressed when they lose.
Otherwise you have a kid that likes the game. Passion is different.
And if they don’t have it, don’t worry about all those acronyms. Don’t dump a bunch of money on puttering them on airplanes. Your kid doesn’t have it.
And don’t let the person making a living off of it tell you any different. Not matter how cool they seem or how much fear they try to instill in you.
Take your kid to the local club. Then take them to OMSI. Or a play. Or the park. Or a thorns game.
Put the thousands of soccer dollars in the 529 or go on a vacation.
Here is the truth: your kid won’t go pro. Your kid may play in college.
The single best indicator of how far your kid will go? How much time they spend with the ball. Are they enthralled with it? Do you have to tell them to stop playing with it in the house? Do they beg you to go outside to play? All these to annoying levels, not cute levels. Annoying. They are addicted. Can’t get enough. Depressed when practice is canceled. Depressed when they lose.
Otherwise you have a kid that likes the game. Passion is different.
And if they don’t have it, don’t worry about all those acronyms. Don’t dump a bunch of money on puttering them on airplanes. Your kid doesn’t have it.
And don’t let the person making a living off of it tell you any different. Not matter how cool they seem or how much fear they try to instill in you.
Take your kid to the local club. Then take them to OMSI. Or a play. Or the park. Or a thorns game.
Put the thousands of soccer dollars in the 529 or go on a vacation.
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