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Post by Keeper on Jul 31, 2015 12:39:34 GMT -5
What will be interesting is how strongly this will be mandated. Will the big Atlanta clubs just ignore it and continue to play 11v11 at U11? They've sold it really hard now, so can they back down? Can they afford to drop the player/coach ratio, from a financial standpoint, which smaller teams will do to them? And most intriguing, will GA Soccer continue to unofficially sanction their behavior by offering 11v11 at age groups younger than U13 in their own tournaments? Sounded like Jacob Daniel had a plan for that and since this is a mandate from US Soccer any club that wants to keep their affiliation will have to follow this. I think Suzanne Conlon and him have finally realized letting the clubs run wild is a bad idea and now it's time to bring down the hammer.
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Post by SoccerMom on Jul 31, 2015 12:41:52 GMT -5
So will ECNL clubs not have to do this since theyre under a different umbrella?
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Post by jack4343 on Jul 31, 2015 13:45:58 GMT -5
I can tell you what UFA Norcross plans on doing. Ryan our academy director told us about this at tryouts and stated that our rising u10 premier team daughter will continue playing 6v6 for the whole year while in previous years the top u10 team would switch to 8v8 in the spring. I think it's great staying in the smaller field. It forces the kids to have better skills in maintaining possession in tighter confines and eliminates much of the long ball soccer that I really despise.
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Post by dreaddy on Jul 31, 2015 14:05:55 GMT -5
Been out for a while (again). Let me give you a little history on all of this (I think I've done it before, but don't plan on looking it up).
US Youth ages used to use a January 1st cutoff. When we talk about the teams being XYZ club's 01 Elite, that 01 used to be the birth year. It was just less confusing since everyone was born in the same year unless they were playing up, but that's where the whole year thing came from. At that time, the International cutoff was September 1st (sound familiar?). US Youth decided to finally align themselves with the International cutoff. They changed it to September 1st. It was done cold turkey. Teams were split apart, but everyone survived the change. The really confusing part was now the naming to teams. Some clubs used the first year, some used the second year and a few used the expected graduation year of the majority of the players on the team. It was so clear when you played a say, '77 team from any state. Now all of a sudden you might be playing a team of the same age group, but they were called 76's.
We survived the change and now everything was aligned with the international cutoff... for about 2 years. FIFA decided to change their cutoff to January 1st. US Youth decided that after causing all that heartache two years before they weren't going to change back and so that's how we are in the situation we are in now.
This new directive is coming from US Soccer. As such, it affects US Youth and the State Associations, US Club and ECNL as well as AYSO. Clubs won't have a choice, nor will Georgia Soccer.
We've made the change before. It's annoying, it tears teams apart and it is difficult at first. But overall, it's not that big of a deal.
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Post by SoccerMom on Jul 31, 2015 15:35:07 GMT -5
I can tell you what UFA Norcross plans on doing. Ryan our academy director told us about this at tryouts and stated that our rising u10 premier team daughter will continue playing 6v6 for the whole year while in previous years the top u10 team would switch to 8v8 in the spring. I think it's great staying in the smaller field. It forces the kids to have better skills in maintaining possession in tighter confines and eliminates much of the long ball soccer that I really despise. Thats interesting... UFA Forsyth is having the rising U10's premier do 8v8 in the fall and then red will switch to it as well in the spring
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Post by Soccerhouse on Jul 31, 2015 17:19:39 GMT -5
totally sucks for older kids. Kids might be on strong RPL teams and with the age cutoff switched might not have quality teams in the age above or below at their club and end up playing many levels down etc.
Obviously the opposite can happen where younger/older kids are now eligible for a better team based on age
They should leave u13s and up alone.
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Post by jack4343 on Jul 31, 2015 17:23:58 GMT -5
I can tell you what UFA Norcross plans on doing. Ryan our academy director told us about this at tryouts and stated that our rising u10 premier team daughter will continue playing 6v6 for the whole year while in previous years the top u10 team would switch to 8v8 in the spring. I think it's great staying in the smaller field. It forces the kids to have better skills in maintaining possession in tighter confines and eliminates much of the long ball soccer that I really despise. Thats interesting... UFA Forsyth is having the rising U10's premier do 8v8 in the fall and then red will switch to it as well in the spring Yeah should be interesting. I posted about that in another thread a few weeks ago that I was a little concerned on who we would play in weekly friendlies if the other clubs didn't follow suit and stay 6v6. I guess we'll see.
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Post by SoccerMom on Jul 31, 2015 17:27:22 GMT -5
Yea makes no sense if everyone doesnt do it. I would have been fine staying 6v6 for now
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Post by newposter on Aug 2, 2015 12:00:38 GMT -5
I wonder if we'll see more kids "playing up" than usual at least in the short term so that teams can stay together (e.g., 2001s playing on a 2000 team). My daughter's team is really close knit. It would be tough to see it split in half. Yeah, whether clubs implement this or not by next year, kids will have to "play up" just to catch up with their age group. I would guess on average 42% (5/12) of every team is born Aug-Dec and will need to move up an age group next tryouts.
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Post by newposter on Aug 2, 2015 12:01:52 GMT -5
In Georgia in the spring of a players 8th grade year they can play high school.
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Post by stevieg on Aug 2, 2015 13:20:28 GMT -5
In Georgia in the spring of a players 8th grade year they can play high school. "Can" is not the same as should or will. High school is 9-12 grade. U14 8th graders should play club in the spring. And isn't this on the wrong thread?
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Post by SoccerMom on Aug 2, 2015 14:50:58 GMT -5
In Georgia in the spring of a players 8th grade year they can play high school. Not in every county.
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