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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any updates for the 26-27 season?[/quote]

I think you missed the announcement, they will shift to a new age-bracket for the 27-28 season.  It won't be a school year bracket, it will be a new 12 month window (1-August to 31-July).  That grouping does not line-up with most school years at all.

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It's amazing how much discussion happens over stuff like this. There's always going to be a cutoff date. I remember years ago when the switch to calendar year happened, my kids' teams all got broken up and they were no longer playing with many of their peers from school. It was very disruptive. Now they are thinking about changing it again? Sheesh! Why did they change it in the first place?

Apparently, most European football youth academies use school-age grouping with a cutoff of September 1st. I think that used to be what we did before they changed it all several years ago. Pointless tinkering rather than addressing any real challenges.

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It was a Jurgen Klinsmann idea so the advantages of RAE would go to the Jan-March players which would also but the oldest potential players for the youth national teams because those have always been BY.

England uses 9/1, most other European academies use BY. None of that really impacts US Soccer.

Finally, they aren’t thinking about changing it, they are changing it for all of youth soccer. Still waiting on an announcement from mlsn. Youth national teams will stay BY.[/quote]

One of the kids on my youngest player's team is from France and I remember his father telling me that in France the kids are sorted by school grade-level as well. I don't know but that's what he said.

Given that there has to be some cutoff somewhere, it would make sense to use the same cutoff for school and sports -- not sure why it would be different (especially since there are also school sports going on) ... we obviously don't use calendar year to as the cutoff for school (whether we should or not is another question, but we don't), so it doesn't make sense to have a completely different cutoff off for sports that splits up kids from the same grade into different levels for club sports (but not for school sports).

Make it make sense.[/quote]

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