ECNL moving to school year part 2

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Anonymous wrote:MlSN csnt go SY. How would these MLSN teams continue to play 3 international tournaments each season much less friendlies against USYNT

Shhh... Don't confuse the girl dad's with facts. They know ECNL and thats it. Their contributions to the discussion are amazing. 👏 🤩 😍

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Anonymous wrote:MlSN csnt go SY. How would these MLSN teams continue to play 3 international tournaments each season much less friendlies against USYNT

Shhh... Don't confuse the girl dad's with facts. They know ECNL and thats it. Their contributions to the discussion are amazing. 👏 🤩 😍

Are both of these posts jokes? I honestly don't know. Yes, girl dad here. I was told by a friend with boys in top-tier MLSN that they almost never play international matches, except a light presence of foreign clubs at GA Cup. And USYNT lists all their friendlies against other countries, not MLSN clubs (which couldn't be many matches anyway given that USYNT is just one team potentially having friendlies against a whole league). According to the pro academy director from Europe on the ECNL podcast, they put together unique teams for friendlies and foreign tournaments anyway, with their best prospects playing up, so they don't really view their international pro academy play as very dependent on age cutoffs.

Seems like lower tier leagues want SY. College-bound leagues want SY. Pro-bound leagues don't care. So no league is really left defending BY, just some parents of currently-advantaged kids. MLSN could stay BY, but that appears to be because they are looking for the path of least disruption from the status quo, rather than actually favoring BY. At least in public, no MLSN/USSF official has given the defense of BY (if determined from scratch) for creating more/better pro players. More than happy to read something I missed where they did actually defend BY as the better system for future pros.

An anecdote on the girls' side: our ECNL club is telling parents "they are still deciding whether the club will switch to SY." Given that their league has already decided, and staying BY would hurt our (hyper-competitive) club's chances of winning games, we pretty much assume this is our club's way of telling parents to stop pestering them about placements until tryouts are closer.

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Anonymous wrote:MlSN csnt go SY. How would these MLSN teams continue to play 3 international tournaments each season much less friendlies against USYNT

Shhh... Don't confuse the girl dad's with facts. They know ECNL and thats it. Their contributions to the discussion are amazing. 👏 🤩 😍

Are both of these posts jokes? I honestly don't know. Yes, girl dad here. I was told by a friend with boys in top-tier MLSN that they almost never play international matches, except a light presence of foreign clubs at GA Cup. And USYNT lists all their friendlies against other countries, not MLSN clubs (which couldn't be many matches anyway given that USYNT is just one team potentially having friendlies against a whole league). According to the pro academy director from Europe on the ECNL podcast, they put together unique teams for friendlies and foreign tournaments anyway, with their best prospects playing up, so they don't really view their international pro academy play as very dependent on age cutoffs.

Seems like lower tier leagues want SY. College-bound leagues want SY. Pro-bound leagues don't care. So no league is really left defending BY, just some parents of currently-advantaged kids. MLSN could stay BY, but that appears to be because they are looking for the path of least disruption from the status quo, rather than actually favoring BY. At least in public, no MLSN/USSF official has given the defense of BY (if determined from scratch) for creating more/better pro players. More than happy to read something I missed where they did actually defend BY as the better system for future pros.

An anecdote on the girls' side: our ECNL club is telling parents "they are still deciding whether the club will switch to SY." Given that their league has already decided, and staying BY would hurt our (hyper-competitive) club's chances of winning games, we pretty much assume this is our club's way of telling parents to stop pestering them about placements until tryouts are closer.

Admits to be a girl dad then STILL arrogantly thinks they know more than MLS. Just shut up.

There are all kinds of reasons to stay BY. The biggest one which you obviously have no comprehension of is that SY doesn't make sense for professional teams. Grade in school simply doesnt apply.

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Anonymous wrote:MlSN csnt go SY. How would these MLSN teams continue to play 3 international tournaments each season much less friendlies against USYNT

Shhh... Don't confuse the girl dad's with facts. They know ECNL and thats it. Their contributions to the discussion are amazing. 👏 🤩 😍

Are both of these posts jokes? I honestly don't know. Yes, girl dad here. I was told by a friend with boys in top-tier MLSN that they almost never play international matches, except a light presence of foreign clubs at GA Cup. And USYNT lists all their friendlies against other countries, not MLSN clubs (which couldn't be many matches anyway given that USYNT is just one team potentially having friendlies against a whole league). According to the pro academy director from Europe on the ECNL podcast, they put together unique teams for friendlies and foreign tournaments anyway, with their best prospects playing up, so they don't really view their international pro academy play as very dependent on age cutoffs.

Seems like lower tier leagues want SY. College-bound leagues want SY. Pro-bound leagues don't care. So no league is really left defending BY, just some parents of currently-advantaged kids. MLSN could stay BY, but that appears to be because they are looking for the path of least disruption from the status quo, rather than actually favoring BY. At least in public, no MLSN/USSF official has given the defense of BY (if determined from scratch) for creating more/better pro players. More than happy to read something I missed where they did actually defend BY as the better system for future pros.

An anecdote on the girls' side: our ECNL club is telling parents "they are still deciding whether the club will switch to SY." Given that their league has already decided, and staying BY would hurt our (hyper-competitive) club's chances of winning games, we pretty much assume this is our club's way of telling parents to stop pestering them about placements until tryouts are closer.

Admits to be a girl dad then STILL arrogantly thinks they know more than MLS. Just shut up.

There are all kinds of reasons to stay BY. The biggest one which you obviously have no comprehension of is that SY doesn't make sense for professional teams. Grade in school simply doesnt apply.

Girl dads don't really give a crap what MLSN does. We're just watching this MLSN debate as a fascinating display of human stupidity. Please, continue.

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Anonymous wrote:MlSN csnt go SY. How would these MLSN teams continue to play 3 international tournaments each season much less friendlies against USYNT

Shhh... Don't confuse the girl dad's with facts. They know ECNL and thats it. Their contributions to the discussion are amazing. 👏 🤩 😍

Are both of these posts jokes? I honestly don't know. Yes, girl dad here. I was told by a friend with boys in top-tier MLSN that they almost never play international matches, except a light presence of foreign clubs at GA Cup. And USYNT lists all their friendlies against other countries, not MLSN clubs (which couldn't be many matches anyway given that USYNT is just one team potentially having friendlies against a whole league). According to the pro academy director from Europe on the ECNL podcast, they put together unique teams for friendlies and foreign tournaments anyway, with their best prospects playing up, so they don't really view their international pro academy play as very dependent on age cutoffs.

Seems like lower tier leagues want SY. College-bound leagues want SY. Pro-bound leagues don't care. So no league is really left defending BY, just some parents of currently-advantaged kids. MLSN could stay BY, but that appears to be because they are looking for the path of least disruption from the status quo, rather than actually favoring BY. At least in public, no MLSN/USSF official has given the defense of BY (if determined from scratch) for creating more/better pro players. More than happy to read something I missed where they did actually defend BY as the better system for future pros.

An anecdote on the girls' side: our ECNL club is telling parents "they are still deciding whether the club will switch to SY." Given that their league has already decided, and staying BY would hurt our (hyper-competitive) club's chances of winning games, we pretty much assume this is our club's way of telling parents to stop pestering them about placements until tryouts are closer.

Admits to be a girl dad then STILL arrogantly thinks they know more than MLS. Just shut up.

There are all kinds of reasons to stay BY. The biggest one which you obviously have no comprehension of is that SY doesn't make sense for professional teams. Grade in school simply doesnt apply.

This will age well when p2p MLSN announces to switch to SY in Feb.

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Anonymous wrote:MlSN csnt go SY. How would these MLSN teams continue to play 3 international tournaments each season much less friendlies against USYNT

Shhh... Don't confuse the girl dad's with facts. They know ECNL and thats it. Their contributions to the discussion are amazing. 👏 🤩 😍

Are both of these posts jokes? I honestly don't know. Yes, girl dad here. I was told by a friend with boys in top-tier MLSN that they almost never play international matches, except a light presence of foreign clubs at GA Cup. And USYNT lists all their friendlies against other countries, not MLSN clubs (which couldn't be many matches anyway given that USYNT is just one team potentially having friendlies against a whole league). According to the pro academy director from Europe on the ECNL podcast, they put together unique teams for friendlies and foreign tournaments anyway, with their best prospects playing up, so they don't really view their international pro academy play as very dependent on age cutoffs.

Seems like lower tier leagues want SY. College-bound leagues want SY. Pro-bound leagues don't care. So no league is really left defending BY, just some parents of currently-advantaged kids. MLSN could stay BY, but that appears to be because they are looking for the path of least disruption from the status quo, rather than actually favoring BY. At least in public, no MLSN/USSF official has given the defense of BY (if determined from scratch) for creating more/better pro players. More than happy to read something I missed where they did actually defend BY as the better system for future pros.

An anecdote on the girls' side: our ECNL club is telling parents "they are still deciding whether the club will switch to SY." Given that their league has already decided, and staying BY would hurt our (hyper-competitive) club's chances of winning games, we pretty much assume this is our club's way of telling parents to stop pestering them about placements until tryouts are closer.

Admits to be a girl dad then STILL arrogantly thinks they know more than MLS. Just shut up.

There are all kinds of reasons to stay BY. The biggest one which you obviously have no comprehension of is that SY doesn't make sense for professional teams. Grade in school simply doesnt apply.

This will age well when p2p MLSN announces to switch to SY in Feb.

I was hoping we would hear something after mlsn fest but before the holidays.

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Anonymous wrote:MlSN csnt go SY. How would these MLSN teams continue to play 3 international tournaments each season much less friendlies against USYNT

Shhh... Don't confuse the girl dad's with facts. They know ECNL and thats it. Their contributions to the discussion are amazing. 👏 🤩 😍

Are both of these posts jokes? I honestly don't know. Yes, girl dad here. I was told by a friend with boys in top-tier MLSN that they almost never play international matches, except a light presence of foreign clubs at GA Cup. And USYNT lists all their friendlies against other countries, not MLSN clubs (which couldn't be many matches anyway given that USYNT is just one team potentially having friendlies against a whole league). According to the pro academy director from Europe on the ECNL podcast, they put together unique teams for friendlies and foreign tournaments anyway, with their best prospects playing up, so they don't really view their international pro academy play as very dependent on age cutoffs.

Seems like lower tier leagues want SY. College-bound leagues want SY. Pro-bound leagues don't care. So no league is really left defending BY, just some parents of currently-advantaged kids. MLSN could stay BY, but that appears to be because they are looking for the path of least disruption from the status quo, rather than actually favoring BY. At least in public, no MLSN/USSF official has given the defense of BY (if determined from scratch) for creating more/better pro players. More than happy to read something I missed where they did actually defend BY as the better system for future pros.

An anecdote on the girls' side: our ECNL club is telling parents "they are still deciding whether the club will switch to SY." Given that their league has already decided, and staying BY would hurt our (hyper-competitive) club's chances of winning games, we pretty much assume this is our club's way of telling parents to stop pestering them about placements until tryouts are closer.

Admits to be a girl dad then STILL arrogantly thinks they know more than MLS. Just shut up.

There are all kinds of reasons to stay BY. The biggest one which you obviously have no comprehension of is that SY doesn't make sense for professional teams. Grade in school simply doesnt apply.

This will age well when p2p MLSN announces to switch to SY in Feb.

Why? p2p isnt Academy and isn't professional soccer.

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Anonymous wrote:MlSN csnt go SY. How would these MLSN teams continue to play 3 international tournaments each season much less friendlies against USYNT

Shhh... Don't confuse the girl dad's with facts. They know ECNL and thats it. Their contributions to the discussion are amazing. 👏 🤩 😍

Are both of these posts jokes? I honestly don't know. Yes, girl dad here. I was told by a friend with boys in top-tier MLSN that they almost never play international matches, except a light presence of foreign clubs at GA Cup. And USYNT lists all their friendlies against other countries, not MLSN clubs (which couldn't be many matches anyway given that USYNT is just one team potentially having friendlies against a whole league). According to the pro academy director from Europe on the ECNL podcast, they put together unique teams for friendlies and foreign tournaments anyway, with their best prospects playing up, so they don't really view their international pro academy play as very dependent on age cutoffs.

Seems like lower tier leagues want SY. College-bound leagues want SY. Pro-bound leagues don't care. So no league is really left defending BY, just some parents of currently-advantaged kids. MLSN could stay BY, but that appears to be because they are looking for the path of least disruption from the status quo, rather than actually favoring BY. At least in public, no MLSN/USSF official has given the defense of BY (if determined from scratch) for creating more/better pro players. More than happy to read something I missed where they did actually defend BY as the better system for future pros.

An anecdote on the girls' side: our ECNL club is telling parents "they are still deciding whether the club will switch to SY." Given that their league has already decided, and staying BY would hurt our (hyper-competitive) club's chances of winning games, we pretty much assume this is our club's way of telling parents to stop pestering them about placements until tryouts are closer.

Admits to be a girl dad then STILL arrogantly thinks they know more than MLS. Just shut up.

There are all kinds of reasons to stay BY. The biggest one which you obviously have no comprehension of is that SY doesn't make sense for professional teams. Grade in school simply doesnt apply.

Girl dads don't really give a crap what MLSN does. We're just watching this MLSN debate as a fascinating display of human stupidity. Please, continue.

I look at it more as a display of arrogance from rec parents, and maybe club owners that are looking to maximize profits. Unfortunately theres more rec parents than parents with kids playing at a high level.

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Anonymous wrote:MlSN csnt go SY. How would these MLSN teams continue to play 3 international tournaments each season much less friendlies against USYNT

Shhh... Don't confuse the girl dad's with facts. They know ECNL and thats it. Their contributions to the discussion are amazing. 👏 🤩 😍

Are both of these posts jokes? I honestly don't know. Yes, girl dad here. I was told by a friend with boys in top-tier MLSN that they almost never play international matches, except a light presence of foreign clubs at GA Cup. And USYNT lists all their friendlies against other countries, not MLSN clubs (which couldn't be many matches anyway given that USYNT is just one team potentially having friendlies against a whole league). According to the pro academy director from Europe on the ECNL podcast, they put together unique teams for friendlies and foreign tournaments anyway, with their best prospects playing up, so they don't really view their international pro academy play as very dependent on age cutoffs.

Seems like lower tier leagues want SY. College-bound leagues want SY. Pro-bound leagues don't care. So no league is really left defending BY, just some parents of currently-advantaged kids. MLSN could stay BY, but that appears to be because they are looking for the path of least disruption from the status quo, rather than actually favoring BY. At least in public, no MLSN/USSF official has given the defense of BY (if determined from scratch) for creating more/better pro players. More than happy to read something I missed where they did actually defend BY as the better system for future pros.

An anecdote on the girls' side: our ECNL club is telling parents "they are still deciding whether the club will switch to SY." Given that their league has already decided, and staying BY would hurt our (hyper-competitive) club's chances of winning games, we pretty much assume this is our club's way of telling parents to stop pestering them about placements until tryouts are closer.

Admits to be a girl dad then STILL arrogantly thinks they know more than MLS. Just shut up.

There are all kinds of reasons to stay BY. The biggest one which you obviously have no comprehension of is that SY doesn't make sense for professional teams. Grade in school simply doesnt apply.

This will age well when p2p MLSN announces to switch to SY in Feb.

Why? p2p isnt Academy and isn't professional soccer.

Excuse me? MLSN homegrown includes all homegrown! We are professional players with contracts and MLS owns the rights to us because they know we are the best players in the country and best potential to go pro. My coach says 5 or 6 players on our team will very likely get called up to a pro academy next year and he played professionally in Europe!!! You have no idea the level of play Homegrown MLSN is. And if the age cutoff changed to August then it would ruin everything for our league. Also it wouldn’t be fair to those players like me who worked so hard and are born in June. Now all of a sudden we’re playing against other kids that are almost a year older than me. You just can’t change things up like that on us kids who invest so much to get where we are. Plus our coach said we might play international next year. And also if kids from non-MLSN teams find out our cutoff is the same as theirs they will laugh at us because we are professionals I don’t care what anyone says!

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Anonymous wrote:MlSN csnt go SY. How would these MLSN teams continue to play 3 international tournaments each season much less friendlies against USYNT

Shhh... Don't confuse the girl dad's with facts. They know ECNL and thats it. Their contributions to the discussion are amazing. 👏 🤩 😍

Are both of these posts jokes? I honestly don't know. Yes, girl dad here. I was told by a friend with boys in top-tier MLSN that they almost never play international matches, except a light presence of foreign clubs at GA Cup. And USYNT lists all their friendlies against other countries, not MLSN clubs (which couldn't be many matches anyway given that USYNT is just one team potentially having friendlies against a whole league). According to the pro academy director from Europe on the ECNL podcast, they put together unique teams for friendlies and foreign tournaments anyway, with their best prospects playing up, so they don't really view their international pro academy play as very dependent on age cutoffs.

Seems like lower tier leagues want SY. College-bound leagues want SY. Pro-bound leagues don't care. So no league is really left defending BY, just some parents of currently-advantaged kids. MLSN could stay BY, but that appears to be because they are looking for the path of least disruption from the status quo, rather than actually favoring BY. At least in public, no MLSN/USSF official has given the defense of BY (if determined from scratch) for creating more/better pro players. More than happy to read something I missed where they did actually defend BY as the better system for future pros.

An anecdote on the girls' side: our ECNL club is telling parents "they are still deciding whether the club will switch to SY." Given that their league has already decided, and staying BY would hurt our (hyper-competitive) club's chances of winning games, we pretty much assume this is our club's way of telling parents to stop pestering them about placements until tryouts are closer.

Admits to be a girl dad then STILL arrogantly thinks they know more than MLS. Just shut up.

There are all kinds of reasons to stay BY. The biggest one which you obviously have no comprehension of is that SY doesn't make sense for professional teams. Grade in school simply doesnt apply.

This will age well when p2p MLSN announces to switch to SY in Feb.

Why? p2p isnt Academy and isn't professional soccer.

Excuse me? MLSN homegrown includes all homegrown! We are professional players with contracts and MLS owns the rights to us because they know we are the best players in the country and best potential to go pro. My coach says 5 or 6 players on our team will very likely get called up to a pro academy next year and he played professionally in Europe!!! You have no idea the level of play Homegrown MLSN is. And if the age cutoff changed to August then it would ruin everything for our league. Also it wouldn’t be fair to those players like me who worked so hard and are born in June. Now all of a sudden we’re playing against other kids that are almost a year older than me. You just can’t change things up like that on us kids who invest so much to get where we are. Plus our coach said we might play international next year. And also if kids from non-MLSN teams find out our cutoff is the same as theirs they will laugh at us because we are professionals I don’t care what anyone says!

Nice try hahaha

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Anonymous wrote:MlSN csnt go SY. How would these MLSN teams continue to play 3 international tournaments each season much less friendlies against USYNT

Shhh... Don't confuse the girl dad's with facts. They know ECNL and thats it. Their contributions to the discussion are amazing. 👏 🤩 😍

Are both of these posts jokes? I honestly don't know. Yes, girl dad here. I was told by a friend with boys in top-tier MLSN that they almost never play international matches, except a light presence of foreign clubs at GA Cup. And USYNT lists all their friendlies against other countries, not MLSN clubs (which couldn't be many matches anyway given that USYNT is just one team potentially having friendlies against a whole league). According to the pro academy director from Europe on the ECNL podcast, they put together unique teams for friendlies and foreign tournaments anyway, with their best prospects playing up, so they don't really view their international pro academy play as very dependent on age cutoffs.

Seems like lower tier leagues want SY. College-bound leagues want SY. Pro-bound leagues don't care. So no league is really left defending BY, just some parents of currently-advantaged kids. MLSN could stay BY, but that appears to be because they are looking for the path of least disruption from the status quo, rather than actually favoring BY. At least in public, no MLSN/USSF official has given the defense of BY (if determined from scratch) for creating more/better pro players. More than happy to read something I missed where they did actually defend BY as the better system for future pros.

An anecdote on the girls' side: our ECNL club is telling parents "they are still deciding whether the club will switch to SY." Given that their league has already decided, and staying BY would hurt our (hyper-competitive) club's chances of winning games, we pretty much assume this is our club's way of telling parents to stop pestering them about placements until tryouts are closer.

Admits to be a girl dad then STILL arrogantly thinks they know more than MLS. Just shut up.

There are all kinds of reasons to stay BY. The biggest one which you obviously have no comprehension of is that SY doesn't make sense for professional teams. Grade in school simply doesnt apply.

This will age well when p2p MLSN announces to switch to SY in Feb.

Why? p2p isnt Academy and isn't professional soccer.

Excuse me? MLSN homegrown includes all homegrown! We are professional players with contracts and MLS owns the rights to us because they know we are the best players in the country and best potential to go pro. My coach says 5 or 6 players on our team will very likely get called up to a pro academy next year and he played professionally in Europe!!! You have no idea the level of play Homegrown MLSN is. And if the age cutoff changed to August then it would ruin everything for our league. Also it wouldn’t be fair to those players like me who worked so hard and are born in June. Now all of a sudden we’re playing against other kids that are almost a year older than me. You just can’t change things up like that on us kids who invest so much to get where we are. Plus our coach said we might play international next year. And also if kids from non-MLSN teams find out our cutoff is the same as theirs they will laugh at us because we are professionals I don’t care what anyone says!

Nice try hahaha

Its crazy how much an adult wants to get involved with their kids sport. If they could just lace up for a game run their fat butt up and down the field. They'd show everyone a thing or two.

Go home Al Bundy nobody cares.

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Anonymous wrote:MlSN csnt go SY. How would these MLSN teams continue to play 3 international tournaments each season much less friendlies against USYNT

Shhh... Don't confuse the girl dad's with facts. They know ECNL and thats it. Their contributions to the discussion are amazing. 👏 🤩 😍

Are both of these posts jokes? I honestly don't know. Yes, girl dad here. I was told by a friend with boys in top-tier MLSN that they almost never play international matches, except a light presence of foreign clubs at GA Cup. And USYNT lists all their friendlies against other countries, not MLSN clubs (which couldn't be many matches anyway given that USYNT is just one team potentially having friendlies against a whole league). According to the pro academy director from Europe on the ECNL podcast, they put together unique teams for friendlies and foreign tournaments anyway, with their best prospects playing up, so they don't really view their international pro academy play as very dependent on age cutoffs.

Seems like lower tier leagues want SY. College-bound leagues want SY. Pro-bound leagues don't care. So no league is really left defending BY, just some parents of currently-advantaged kids. MLSN could stay BY, but that appears to be because they are looking for the path of least disruption from the status quo, rather than actually favoring BY. At least in public, no MLSN/USSF official has given the defense of BY (if determined from scratch) for creating more/better pro players. More than happy to read something I missed where they did actually defend BY as the better system for future pros.

An anecdote on the girls' side: our ECNL club is telling parents "they are still deciding whether the club will switch to SY." Given that their league has already decided, and staying BY would hurt our (hyper-competitive) club's chances of winning games, we pretty much assume this is our club's way of telling parents to stop pestering them about placements until tryouts are closer.

Admits to be a girl dad then STILL arrogantly thinks they know more than MLS. Just shut up.

There are all kinds of reasons to stay BY. The biggest one which you obviously have no comprehension of is that SY doesn't make sense for professional teams. Grade in school simply doesnt apply.

This will age well when p2p MLSN announces to switch to SY in Feb.

Why? p2p isnt Academy and isn't professional soccer.

Excuse me? MLSN homegrown includes all homegrown! We are professional players with contracts and MLS owns the rights to us because they know we are the best players in the country and best potential to go pro. My coach says 5 or 6 players on our team will very likely get called up to a pro academy next year and he played professionally in Europe!!! You have no idea the level of play Homegrown MLSN is. And if the age cutoff changed to August then it would ruin everything for our league. Also it wouldn’t be fair to those players like me who worked so hard and are born in June. Now all of a sudden we’re playing against other kids that are almost a year older than me. You just can’t change things up like that on us kids who invest so much to get where we are. Plus our coach said we might play international next year. And also if kids from non-MLSN teams find out our cutoff is the same as theirs they will laugh at us because we are professionals I don’t care what anyone says!

Nice try hahaha

Why do you make fun of me? You must play for ECNL and those kids will NEVER go pro!!! MLSN is top dawg for real! If you can make it to MLSN academies it is like more than 50% chance to go pro just ask all the coaches and parents. It is a fact!!! But if the age cutoff got changed it would screw me over and be the wirst thing for our professional league. We would lose all respect there are other things too but you are too ignorant to understand

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Anonymous wrote:MlSN csnt go SY. How would these MLSN teams continue to play 3 international tournaments each season much less friendlies against USYNT

Shhh... Don't confuse the girl dad's with facts. They know ECNL and thats it. Their contributions to the discussion are amazing. 👏 🤩 😍

Are both of these posts jokes? I honestly don't know. Yes, girl dad here. I was told by a friend with boys in top-tier MLSN that they almost never play international matches, except a light presence of foreign clubs at GA Cup. And USYNT lists all their friendlies against other countries, not MLSN clubs (which couldn't be many matches anyway given that USYNT is just one team potentially having friendlies against a whole league). According to the pro academy director from Europe on the ECNL podcast, they put together unique teams for friendlies and foreign tournaments anyway, with their best prospects playing up, so they don't really view their international pro academy play as very dependent on age cutoffs.

Seems like lower tier leagues want SY. College-bound leagues want SY. Pro-bound leagues don't care. So no league is really left defending BY, just some parents of currently-advantaged kids. MLSN could stay BY, but that appears to be because they are looking for the path of least disruption from the status quo, rather than actually favoring BY. At least in public, no MLSN/USSF official has given the defense of BY (if determined from scratch) for creating more/better pro players. More than happy to read something I missed where they did actually defend BY as the better system for future pros.

An anecdote on the girls' side: our ECNL club is telling parents "they are still deciding whether the club will switch to SY." Given that their league has already decided, and staying BY would hurt our (hyper-competitive) club's chances of winning games, we pretty much assume this is our club's way of telling parents to stop pestering them about placements until tryouts are closer.

Admits to be a girl dad then STILL arrogantly thinks they know more than MLS. Just shut up.

There are all kinds of reasons to stay BY. The biggest one which you obviously have no comprehension of is that SY doesn't make sense for professional teams. Grade in school simply doesnt apply.

This will age well when p2p MLSN announces to switch to SY in Feb.

Why? p2p isnt Academy and isn't professional soccer.

Excuse me? MLSN homegrown includes all homegrown! We are professional players with contracts and MLS owns the rights to us because they know we are the best players in the country and best potential to go pro. My coach says 5 or 6 players on our team will very likely get called up to a pro academy next year and he played professionally in Europe!!! You have no idea the level of play Homegrown MLSN is. And if the age cutoff changed to August then it would ruin everything for our league. Also it wouldn’t be fair to those players like me who worked so hard and are born in June. Now all of a sudden we’re playing against other kids that are almost a year older than me. You just can’t change things up like that on us kids who invest so much to get where we are. Plus our coach said we might play international next year. And also if kids from non-MLSN teams find out our cutoff is the same as theirs they will laugh at us because we are professionals I don’t care what anyone says!

Nice try hahaha

Why do you make fun of me? You must play for ECNL and those kids will NEVER go pro!!! MLSN is top dawg for real! If you can make it to MLSN academies it is like more than 50% chance to go pro just ask all the coaches and parents. It is a fact!!! But if the age cutoff got changed it would screw me over and be the wirst thing for our professional league. We would lose all respect there are other things too but you are too ignorant to understand

I'm really struggling here. Is this a bad attempt at satire or just incoherent ramblings.

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Based on the ammount of trolling, sentiment is clear MLSN going SY

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Anonymous wrote:Based on the ammount of trolling, sentiment is clear MLSN going SY