
I mean yes and no? Like our local MLS Academy plays BY because all of US soccer does, but there are plenty of kids on each academy team playing a year or 2 up. They also play internationally against teams that are a mixture of BY and SY. The one time my kid played internationally he as a fall birthday actually went with his clubs team a year down, because in Europe its quite common for tournaments to be BY plus 2-3 kids playing a year down to accommodate English teams. And to those who say that MLS academies play in the same league as P2P MLS and thus will play by the same rules, they are completely missing hte fact that the academy teams are 9 billion times better, and would not at all care about playing against P2P MLSN with a handful of slightly older kids. |
Those are the BY crowds holding the hope that p2p MLSN staying in BY, and finding placebo to justify it. I see it is a waste of time for MLS Acedemy team to have a 70% procession and beat a p2p MLSN team at 5:0. It will be more beneficial for MLS Acedemy to play the older p2p MLSN if it has to as a part of business selling scam to those p2p MLSN parents to pay $20K a year. |
I’d gladly pay 20k for access to MLSN league games for my son without the hassle of the pro contract/online school BS.
Where do I sign up? |
Stupidity is in full force. |
Some people spend more on a night in Atlantic City. Don’t flinch bro…. |
As another data point, I know the Atlanta United Academy would play up at almost every age group to make the games against the local P2P MLSN teams competitive. The academies staying BY (but the P2P MLSN etc going SY) would also give them a convenient excuse if they ever lose a match. They can just say, hey we are playing up! |
Galaxy has a lot of kids playing up, one that I know of is even playing up 2 years |
Playing UP can happen regardless of BY/SY. The point is that the age cut off exists to prevent playing DOWN, at both BY/SY. |
Whatever happened to the age change “support materials” that were supposed to be released after the AGM? |
Pretending “MLSN p2p” is in a different league than the academies is the new SY+60 but for idiots. |
A calendar, a highlighter and a clipboard was mailed to every league and club. Mission accomplished. |
What sort of weird logic is this? |
Regardless, you can’t call it playing up unless there is an age bracket. |
Your IQ is too low to understand. Just shut up. |
You ok? You might need help… You are arguing with people online over youth sports…I’m sorry you are so upset and hurt by all this, but don’t let youth sports get you like this. Be better. |