ECNL moving to school year not calendar

[Anonymous]

Lots more kids to take spots. I'd start shopping for a new club now for most kids Feb-July.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it still assumed GA and MLSN will do the same thing as each other?

Nobody knows, the assumption is that GA and MLSN2 will do 8/1 and MLSN will stay BY with biobanding.

But just to throw more gas on the fire US Soccer is in talks with colleges and pro leagues to recreate how soccer is played in college. This was likely triggered from the NCAA agreement earlier this week

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/45485632/us-soccer-new-committee-evaluate-ncaa-soccer-future

Bioband for up to 5 months? So then the age range of your team is 17 months? What purpose does that serve other than make it more difficult to play in joint tournaments and completely muddy the pathway from mlsn2 to Mlsn?

Tell me how great SY is next time clubs play internationally where most countries are national team and pro club aligned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a most thrilling day in my soccer mom life (mom of 2 August kids). Finally!

This comment is why all the BY people hate the switch to SY.

You shouldn't be excited because suddenly your kids will be the oldest on the team.

I could see Mlsn go 9/1 still just to be different and align with UK for premier league sales. BY deviates too much from the pipeline though and they’ll get a higher proportion of B team players come the jump to u13. Most of the A team u12 players will seek out ECNL to stick together and keep their RAE. Not saying it is in the best interest of a child’s development, but this will have a net negative impact on MLSN player pool nonetheless .

lol, Mlsn scared of ECNL… maybe, but do agree BY hurts Mlsn with the landscape and at least one elite league going SY.

[Anonymous]

Tell me how great SY is next time clubs play internationally where most countries are national team and pro club aligned.

Where is this loads of international competition happening at MLSN P2P, or the academies for that matter. With a roster of 30 they can match up age in the occasional match up. Btw, the switch to BY a decade ago didn’t help our MNT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Tell me how great SY is next time clubs play internationally where most countries are national team and pro club aligned.

Where is this loads of international competition happening at MLSN P2P, or the academies for that matter. With a roster of 30 they can match up age in the occasional match up. Btw, the switch to BY a decade ago didn’t help our MNT.
Good choice align with lower youth leagues not the best in the world.

Also the MNT sucked before switching to BY. It doesnt matter what grouping MLS Next uses.

[Anonymous]

Will they announce phasing in? So that current players playing with an older group can start playing with their SY? I’m surprised they didn’t announce that. It seems like it’ll be an abrupt change instead.

[Anonymous]

We prefer CHAOS in Merica.

[Anonymous]

Everyone was mad with Sept 1 now everyone’s mad about Aug 1?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone was mad with Sept 1 now everyone’s mad about Aug 1?

8/1 is marginally better than 9/1 because it addresses 99% of all trapped players nationwide.

The problem is it introduces the possibility for Aug born players with a 9/1 school start date to play down.

Clubs will just ask Aug birthday kids what grade they're in school and put players on the right grade team. But some will play down for wins even if it screws them when recruiting.

[Anonymous]

“As a reminder, under U.S. Soccer’s new policy, each Federation member can determine age group registration rules for the leagues and competitions they operate or sanction. To support this transition, U.S. Soccer has introduced a tool to help parents and guardians easily understand the age groupings based on their child’s birthdate.”

Grad Year incoming…..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does this mean ENCL and GA have to switch or I am guessing they can stay 9/1?

As a reminder, under U.S. Soccer’s new policy, each Federation member can determine age group registration rules for the leagues and competitions they operate or sanction. To support this transition, U.S. Soccer has introduced a tool to help parents and guardians easily understand the age groupings based on their child’s birthdate.

You can have whatever you like. I said you can have whatever you like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it still assumed GA and MLSN will do the same thing as each other?

Nope now GA goes 7/1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“As a reminder, under U.S. Soccer’s new policy, each Federation member can determine age group registration rules for the leagues and competitions they operate or sanction. To support this transition, U.S. Soccer has introduced a tool to help parents and guardians easily understand the age groupings based on their child’s birthdate.”

Grad Year incoming…..

Maybe for u18 and above.

Not going to happen for any other age groups.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it still assumed GA and MLSN will do the same thing as each other?

Nope now GA goes 7/1

That would be the icing on the cake.

[Anonymous]

US Club Soccer believes:

An Aug. 1 age group cut-off best balances the desire to reduce both the number of “trapped” players and the number of “force-ups” in youth soccer.
A Jan. 1 age group cut-off creates the highest number of trapped players and negatively impacted youth players.
No age group cut-off will eliminate all trapped players or force-ups. States and counties throughout the country have widely different school year cut-offs, and this variance will always result in some number of trapped players or force-ups regardless of age group cut-off date.
There is no soccer developmental benefit to any specific age group cut-off, and no age group cut-off reduces concerns of relative age effect or changes the number of players impacted by relative age effect. Relative age effect is the phenomenon of players born in the first three months after an age group cut-off to be over-represented in identification programs due to early maturation compared to their age-group peers.
Age group cut-offs have no correlation or relationship with level of play or level of soccer aspiration. Various soccer age group cut-offs are used across the world in youth soccer, in both amateur and professional programs.