I play U14 soccer for my team currently in MSPSP (B team) and I am trying out for the ECNL-RL team (the A Team). The tryouts are on May 18, but there are ID sessions tomorrow. (ID sessions are a small tryout essential just so coaches can evaluate players a little bit and get to know them before the actual tryouts)

Mainly, I am very nervous. Is that normal? However I am also confident in my skill and physically, as I am the best defender on my team (coach and parents and teammates even agree) and I have both a strong and very fast build. My coach even plays me about the whole game most of the time but always atleast 65/70 minutes. Based on my dad, they don’t have great defense on the A team but their offensive is good enough so they can keep up.

Hard to word but I am mainly nervous because I don’t know what to expect, and I don’t know a single person there. As far as underperforming, I am not that concerned since I train strength and conditioning with my dad and skills with my current coach a lot, and I believe in my skill partially. But I am aware I do have good dribbling skills, but not good skill moves to use (since im defender I never really trained those)

Anyone have words of advice to calm my nerves/make me less nervous, as well as how to mentally prepare myself for the tryouts/ID sessions? (ID sessions are tomorrow, Tryouts are May 18)

I am not a good typer so if you need me to clarify feel free to ask follow up questions.