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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think they should’ve just moved it to age and kept it simple. [/quote]

Which is much more disruptive based on most kids like to play with kids in the same grade - just like they do at the rec level. Most other sports outside of soccer do not do it by age but based on the school calendar year with some modifications i.e., basketball, volleyball, baseball, etc. The only reason soccer does it based on age is because that is what the rest of the world does it and there were changes to soccer about 8-9 years ago that moved it from grade to age year.[/quote]  There was a large drop in soccer participation immediately after the change to birth year.   Kids mostly want to play with their friends and classmates.   It's really that simple.   It was a stupid move for US Soccer to make such a change that was only meant to address issues surrounding the national US U-16 type teams.  [/quote]Agreed. That was just a change in the calendar date cutoff, so set it for August or September 1 and we're all good.[/quote]

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