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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It will change maybe not next year but for 2022 mark my words. They will use Sept. 30th as the cutoff date. So if you child is born lets say 10-01-09 then they can play with the 08 age groups. Ask your ECNL directors. They had a phone conference about this at the beginning of the season. Some push back but most agreed due to low numbers. If you don't think for a moment that money is not driving this you are sadly mistaken. [/quote]

Low numbers are likely due to a Pandemic and their own closed systems.

Just look at how people mock leagues and kids who play on certain teams or in leagues. Who wants to be a part of that? The people on these boards are gross and are their own worst enemy. Hyper competitive parents who push a ECNL/D1 or bust narrative to soccer are the ones ruining the game and driving families out of the sport. Once kids are on a team the age group simply doesn't matter. Club teams are made up of kids from multiple schools and school districts. This idea of playing with friends has been destroyed because of the need to play in uber competitive leagues and this means no longer playing for a more local club. And if your kid can't make one of those top teams then why bother playing at all?

I mean ECNL parents are constantly trolling GA clubs and teams here. Where are kids supposed to play? When your sole purpose is to make people feel like crap because their kid plays on this team or in that league don't act surprised when families simply leave the sport.

So if ECNL feels that they need to tweak age groupings AGAIN, to save their numbers then how strong is their platform? How strong is the draw of the game? ECNL has over 100 clubs in their league and several clubs with mutliple teams per age group and somehow their numbers are low? They have never been larger.  [/quote]

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