Soccer ID Camps?

Sportsball
Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:24:04 +0000

GKUnion:

Is your child a boy or a girl?

The timeline for girls is slightly accelerated. Regardless, an 8th grader isn’t going to stack up well unless they are large for their age, very skilled, and very fast. If you child hasn’t been called into a U14 US National Team training camp they likely will be outmatched at any D1 soccer camp.Feel free to attend a camp, but know that your 8th grader will be competing against larger, stronger and faster high school students looking to get noticed. There is very little teamwork at a camp.

He’s a boy.

Is being the youngest and smallest a bad thing? He’s pretty large, and skilled and fast for a 13 year old, but I can’t imagine that he wouldn’t be outmatched if he’s up against kids who are large, and skilled and fast for 17.

But he’s also a kid who doesn’t shy from challenge, so I think it could be a good challenge.

Is there a downside to him being outmatched? A chance that the coaches will remember that he was a little small and slow relatively, and not take into account that he was young?