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Bless your grandson. i wish him well. I have one word for you JEALOUSY!! It is the root of all of this. They wish your grandson was their kid. Believe me I know. We are a soccer family. Although my son was not the greatest player he was pretty good. My husband was is coach since he was 5 yearsd old. He made the varsity team in high school only to sit the bench the entire season. He played a total of 16 minutes all season. After his senior year he went on the try out for the national championship team in college. Guess what? He made it and played there for a year. Obviously he wasn't that bad, ya know. They made it to the final game again in the nationals that year too but unfortunatly lost that game. He now plays in another college and loves it. People can be so jealous. Tell your grandson to be proud of his accomplishments and not to worry about all the backround chatter. It is only distracting him from his dream. To look ahead and never look back. He will be a great college player. Any college would be happy to have him play on their team. Good luck to him. These people mean nothing in his life. Ignore them and just keep doing his thing. I know it's very frustrating when people kind of take the great feeling out of you. Don't allow them to do it to you. You keep being proud. He knows who's opinion means something in his life. Everyone was right there to say, behind our backs, that my son was not such a great player and should not have made the team. After he made the National Champions team on his own merrit no one had anything to say. That was our sweet little private revenge. Ignore them they are ignorant.