MLSnext age bracket change update
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MLS Next age brackets are still undecided.
I work for a club from Madison/Milwaukee area, we’ve got MLS Next AD and HG teams at North and Mid America divisions.
We talked last Thursday with our regional MLS Next representative. He confirmed to us they are still debating, pros and cons.
Clubs are pushing to align AD and HG age cutoffs, otherwise it’d be very difficult for us to organize the rosters and feeders from younger teams, below U13s.
Again: it’s still undecided.
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Did they give any indication of when the decision would be made?
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No indication at all.
Regional representatives are gathering input from p2p clubs like us.
I believe there is a conflict of interests between MLS academies (they prefer BY) and we MLS Next p2p clubs (we push for SY).
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If HG stays BY, what is your clubs plan as to how you will handle the younger feeder teams? Will they stay BY as well?
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Good question! Also undecided on our side, however our CEO gave us hint about maybe moving to ECNL/ECN-R.
Our girls do ECNL, so having the whole club under the same umbrella (and age cutoff) would be easy for us.
Now, we consider absolutely unmanageable to have a BY team at Homegrown and SY at Academy.
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MLS Next age brackets are still undecided.
I work for a club from Madison/Milwaukee area, we’ve got MLS Next AD and HG teams at North and Mid America divisions.
We talked last Thursday with our regional MLS Next representative. He confirmed to us they are still debating, pros and cons.
Clubs are pushing to align AD and HG age cutoffs, otherwise it’d be very difficult for us to organize the rosters and feeders from younger teams, below U13s.
Again: it’s still undecided.
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Did they give any indication of when the decision would be made?
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No indication at all.
Regional representatives are gathering input from p2p clubs like us.
I believe there is a conflict of interests between MLS academies (they prefer BY) and we MLS Next p2p clubs (we push for SY).
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If HG stays BY, what is your clubs plan as to how you will handle the younger feeder teams? Will they stay BY as well?
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Good question! Also undecided on our side, however our CEO gave us hint about maybe moving to ECNL/ECN-R.
Our girls do ECNL, so having the whole club under the same umbrella (and age cutoff) would be easy for us.
Now, we consider absolutely unmanageable to have a BY team at Homegrown and SY at Academy.