Question: Is my son having fun and enjoying the sport
To me, those are the only questions I care about. Not who is #1,2,3,- 10 Not who beat who by home many goals. These are kids for gods sake. Let them have fun, kearn the game and get better. The rest is total BS with a whole bunch of you losers living vicariously through their kids Get a life
I am with you for 6th grade and under. However, by 7th grade it starts getting more serious for the better players as they try to position themselves for the early recruiting which is not far off. And while it may be too early for most, 8th-9th grade is when these kids and their club teams are ramping up for recruiting. Anyone with a kid on Crush, Terps, etc. who says it is "all about his kid having fun" etc. is full of crap. On the most competitive 2020 teams they are already thinking HS and far beyond....So these may be the only questions you are interested in, which is fine, but I am sure you do not represent the majority view of parents whose kids are top players in the 7th grade.
