Hi, I wasn't sure what category to put this under. My nine year old son (year 5) , plays for his local football town club. His absolute love is football and has played with this team for 2.5 years. However he's the only one from his school in the team and I would say 90% are from the same school. Ds has always struggled and still does to fit in with them. I watch him now trying his hardest to chat, fist pump just generally be part of the gang but apart from when they are actually in a match they just ignore him or walk off. In training he gets pushed around a lot which is hard to see but he stands his ground. He is good at football and gets picked for matches but I can see it upsets him and I don't know what to do. He will be at high school with all these boys in a few years so was hoping this would help him but they just seem so annoyed by him trying to be their friend. At his own school he is one of the gang and has good friends. Should I just tell him to persevere?.. sorry I know not a major problem but it's upsetting to see after all this time.