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Doubling down on logistics by Nobilo

I’m sure your local league will appreciate your help.

This may be more a Club soccer criticism than a Town soccer criticism, but I agree with poster below who identified clarity of basic info: Role of various leagues / competitions; # teams in each age group; practice expectations; travel expectations; tryout dates; team assignment dates; league schedule; tournament schedule.

Like all of you, we’re a busy family. We have 3 kids, we work, we have many interests. We’re committed to soccer and want to prioritize it, but help us out with clear, timely, consistent information that doesn’t rely on our 14 year old or a great “team mom” to enable us to plan our spring.

I have 2 kids in a large club in Georgia. The club website is atrocious. Most of the information I want - listed above - is nowhere to be found. There’s a confusing maze of leagues competing in Georgia, but the site doesn’t help characterize the role of each league and how many teams will compete in each league. There’s a link to various extra session signups, but the basics on practice times, locations, and schedules aren’t anywhere. At one point there was a whole section on our “connection” with AS Roma as a development partner, but no info of tryout dates. Madness.