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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not going to happen now with DA fiasco, but it should change back to school year. Assuming an even birth month distribution 33% of each 8th/9th grade team are without a team during high school soccer season, which is wrong. Then it happens again in 11/12 where 2/3 of the team graduate leaving 1/3 behind to figure out where they are playing. It’s unnecessarily disruptive whereas the birth year does not offer any advantages (alignment with the rest of the world is not correct). Much of the Southern Hemisphere starts school closer to a calendar year basis anyway thus for them they are aligned for both school year and club soccer. Eventually I think they will go back but who knows. [/quote]

It was a stupid move to begin with.[/quote]

Yep.  It was a darn stupid thing to change.  In my view teams should have been free to pick what they wanted to do themselves.  That way the vast majority of teams would have stuck with school year.  Those teams that wanted to compete internationally would have recruited by birth year, and would have "played up" by a few monmths in domestic competitions; since they were aiming to be elite that should actually have worked well for them.

I'm not sure that moving back at this point is worth it though.[/quote]

It definitely isn’t the time, when people are disinclined to continue paying club fees due to recession and covid19 insecurity.  I mean, if us soccer wants to further reduce participation by making teams break up for the second time in 5 years, I guess they can, but it would be a huge mistake, financially.[/quote]

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