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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The '25-'26 waiver allowed simultaneous participation in MLS Next HG and HS soccer. The '26-'27 waiver changed and does not. The clubs and high schools already know this but some have been slow to communicate the new rules. Our club (in mid-Atlantic not DC metro) already communicated that if a MLS Next HG player plans to get the waiver to play private HS soccer in the fall bc his school/scholarship requires it, he cannot be rostered for any league games until the HS season ends. The HG team will hold his spot until he can return in Nov but he can no longer play both at once. They do allow simultaneous training just not games.[/quote]

this is the current process if they don't get a waiver. the waiver for next year has not been released yet and won't be released until July at the earliest to accommodate the fall seasons.

MLS Next isn't going to be tightening this rule. they already loosened it this past year and they're going to have to keep loosening it because of how many players are simplyy ignoring the rule and their clubs. [/quote]

So are you saying that MLSNext won’t actually go through with tightening the rule (ie, will still allow simultaneous playing in HS and MLSNext for those who have waivers)?  Our club coach also told us that the possibility had been communicated to them but until it’s in writing in the waivers,  there is a possibility it’s not going to be implemented.[/quote]

For us without kids at that age

Are you saying there are kids going through the excessive running fitness and physical training of HS soccer while also doing 4 days a week MLS Next team training and playing 2-4 games per week? [/quote]

I made the post about the current process. You can find that in the rules manual on the MLS Next website (since there's a couple of posts continuously saying inaccurate things).

I have absolutely zero inside knowledge on what they're going to do next year. So maybe I should have said, "I don't see MLS Next tightening the rule since they have already loosened it from the previous year." My personal opinion is that the rule will ultimately go away because so many people are violating it, and there's another set of players who tend to be really good and from high quality programs who have waivers, mostly for private school leagues.

Regarding the excessive running, fitness. Yes, there are players doing this. [b]In my opinion, the whole notion of rest is overblown for kids under say 17-18 years old. [/b]In my opinion, the thing holding back American players' development is number of touches on the ball. When players are able to essentially double their touches over a season, that works generally to that player's benefit. In my opinion, just to be clear. [/quote]

Did you say you don't think kids under 18 years old should have rest and or active recovery days?

Or am I interpreting incorrectly [/quote]

I think the idea of rest and recovery days is primarily due to professional sports rhythms as opposed to the needs of say a 15 year old boy. It's not that they never need to rest (injuries are different discussion in my opinion), it's just that if I take away video games and YouTube and tell my boy to go find something to do, he'll end up outside playing some kind of sport 7 days a week. So I just think the idea of managing boys minutes is overrated and primarily beneficial to adults rather than teenagers. [/quote]

I agree with this. Mostly.[/quote]

Okay, we'll listen to you guys but not the actual experts[/quote]

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