steadyrighteous
Veteran
By that point it'll be about 4-5 years too late.
Football/soccer isn't as easy to get into or train into kids as some of you are thinking. The right scouts/coaches from some of Europes top clubs will be able to look at a 13/14 year old and know whether or not they have it in them. And even then, entire club academies are filled with 13-18 year olds, and 90% of them don't even get a sniff of that team's First Team. They end up in the lower leagues of that countries football ladder.
By the age of 15, fans may not know who a kid is, but at least in major European countries, entire nation's scouting networks know who the best 15 year olds are
Moving overseas to Europe for your kid to play is likely to have you end up living in Poland watching your son play 2nd division soccer getting paid $700 a week than it is getting a major payday. There are way more Freddy Adu's than Christian Pulisic's.
This doesn't mean you shouldn't get your kids into the sport, but by 14 if your kid isn't attracting nationwide/worldwide interest, you're not gonna magically turn him into a superstar by living on your cousin's couch in Stuttgart.
Before you make a major decision like that, remember - Dortmund found Pulisic, it wasn't the other way around.
I liked that tricolour one.
