If you have problems with car pooling, conflicts between practice times and religious school schedules or other similar difficulties, we urge that you make the maximum possible effort to resolve them and keep your child in the program. If a player cannot attend practices, you can request that the player drop off the team. He or she will be placed on a waiting list and placed with another team if space becomes available. AYSO National and a whole host of experts strongly advise that younger players learn more when the number of players on the field is reduced. Players want to touch the ball, and with 22 players on the field, contact with the ball is limited.
Players swarm to the ball instead of learning teamwork and passing.
In the game, the team is divided into two groups of 5 or 6 and each group plays another team which has also been divided in this way. Half way through the game, there is a short break, during which groups from one team switch. Every player will touch the ball within a short period of time and the game flows backwards and forwards, without the bee swarm that is characteristic of full-sided games of 11 playing against 11. We have a page to give parents and coaches information on Rainouts and Field Closures . We have a separate page with information on Dispute Resolution Procedures .