I have 4 kids and have been a parent for a while - like a lot of people on this board. My (unsolicited) advice for anyone whose kid is younger than 16: make sure he/she is having fun in whatever endeavor (here, soccer) in which he/she participates. If they are grinding and it is not fun, if they are scoring goal after goal and it is not fun, if they are getting 500 juggles and juggle-walking there and back but it is not fun, if they are not having fun . . . you will be looking at a serious case of "I don't want to do this anymore" at some point (and maybe with a "this is MY life, not yours!" or "I hate soccer!" or "I just want to be a kid, not a professional!"). That can happen with a sport, an instrument, chess, family game night, cooking dinner with the siblings, whatever. The difference with sport - compared to the others - it is much, much harder to pick it up later (a year, 5 years, 20 years) and be at the same level. As I say to friends w/kids interested in playing D1 sports, "they better love it because, in many ways, it is more than a job."
And no matter how much you know and love your kid, and how much he/she loves you back, MANY kids change during those teen years. And if they don't love the sport, if they are not playing it for themselves, then they WILL drop out at some point and all the intense plans, ID camps before HS, studying Last Planet Rankings (anyone remember those?), looking at your next opponent who beat X, lost to Y, put 8 on Z, will be meaningless (and, really, they are meaningless as you go through them but, as is common, we don't really see it when we are in it (or maybe not meaningLESS but the are far less meaningFUL than we think at the time)).
I hope all of us think back on these discussions in 10 years and then look at our adult children with pride at the women and men that they have become. I know that
@MakeAPlay sees it now - and that's a great example for all of us.