Shift to Jan. 1 cutoff next year or year after?

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The directive is to register players by birth year. Forming teams is not registration. Call Pysa and ask.

Sure, you can form teams any way you want as long as those teams don't have players that are too old. You can enter a team of 6 year olds in U15 if you want.

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Not true. Club rec has to follow US Soccer directives. Parks & Rec, HS, College, can do what they want.

No they don't. Nobody cares. US Soccer ding dongs don't care for sure.

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Your experience was different from the MAJORITY in the U.S. Majority in the U.S. start playing soccer with friends at rec, not club. My kid did both. Mine is a fall bday but has always played up so no problem. However, most players (even those now on the youth national team pools) started playing soccer in rec with friends/classmates/grademates. Some of those will never start now.

So let me clarify, all three of my kids signed up at age 5 with a club, which obviously was a rec team, being they were each 5 when they started. They knew no one on their teams, but made friends on the teams. As they got early, there were kids from various schools, you are trying to tell me that your experience has been that kids are on the same teams as their schools? I believe there will be some but probably met at soccer not in a school of hundreds of kids.

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No they don't. Nobody cares. US Soccer ding dongs don't care for sure.

Huge percentages of girls stick with soccer for social reasons. Many join to play with school friends.

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So let me clarify, all three of my kids signed up at age 5 with a club, which obviously was a rec team, being they were each 5 when they started. They knew no one on their teams, but made friends on the teams. As they got early, there were kids from various schools, you are trying to tell me that your experience has been that kids are on the same teams as their schools? I believe there will be some but probably met at soccer not in a school of hundreds of kids.

In kindergarten my kid & their friends from their class all signed up for rec (not club) soccer along with all the hundreds of other kids in all the other elementary schools. Rec is organized by school n very many cities across the country. Kids in most cities don't join club until they are older and more serious. At that point they don't care so much about playing with their trends.

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In kindergarten my kid & their friends from their class all signed up for rec (not club) soccer along with all the hundreds of other kids in all the other elementary schools. Rec is organized by school n very many cities across the country. Kids in most cities don't join club until they are older and more serious. At that point they don't care so much about playing with their trends.

I am not aware of school based soccer at that age, what was available in our area was through the Y, or you go to a local club and do rec soccer.

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Huge percentages of girls stick with soccer for social reasons. Many join to play with school friends.

Much more than boys but not exclusive to girls.

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In kindergarten my kid & their friends from their class all signed up for rec (not club) soccer along with all the hundreds of other kids in all the other elementary schools. Rec is organized by school n very many cities across the country. Kids in most cities don't join club until they are older and more serious. At that point they don't care so much about playing with their trends.

Both my kids started in rec (age 5 and age 7). Rec in my city is NOT organized by school. Their teams had 2-3 schoolmates at most. My zip-code has multiple elementary schools--public and private---plus some kids are homeschooled. The rec teams were a mix of all these kids from different schools. Most kids were from the same grade but not all. Some kids delay entry into kindergarten and some go early. So there were always a few kids from different grades. The only teams organized by school were the school teams. There is a 'catholic league' and the middle schools have teams. Yes, the social aspect was very important to the kids on the rec teams. Not because they were with classmates but because they made friends on the teams and stayed together for multiple seasons. That said, as a parent I definitely liked when my kids had classmates on the team as it made the carpooling easier and chatting on the sideline was more interesting as we could gossip re school stuff. The kids however seemed make friends without regard to school or grade other kids were in and seemed more inclined to talk Pokemon and Avatar.

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Look US Soccer has acknowledged this will drive down numbers. They are prepared to raise fees accordingly so they can continue to have the same revenue base. Do not worry.

Ding dongs in charge.

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Both my kids started in rec (age 5 and age 7). Rec in my city is NOT organized by school. Their teams had 2-3 schoolmates at most. My zip-code has multiple elementary schools--public and private---plus some kids are homeschooled. The rec teams were a mix of all these kids from different schools. Most kids were from the same grade but not all. Some kids delay entry into kindergarten and some go early. So there were always a few kids from different grades. The only teams organized by school were the school teams. There is a 'catholic league' and the middle schools have teams. Yes, the social aspect was very important to the kids on the rec teams. Not because they were with classmates but because they made friends on the teams and stayed together for multiple seasons. That said, as a parent I definitely liked when my kids had classmates on the team as it made the carpooling easier and chatting on the sideline was more interesting as we could gossip re school stuff. The kids however seemed make friends without regard to school or grade other kids were in and seemed more inclined to talk Pokemon and Avatar.

This was our experience also. In fact, while are kids are not playing currently with any of thos kids from their elementary days, they are still friends with them and it is fun to see those girls on the other side of the field at soccer games. This will not change with birth year. For those kids signing up for the first time in the next few years, they will not even know it is different. It our the parents of current players that are freaking out because change is never awesome.

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Look US Soccer has acknowledged this will drive down numbers. They are prepared to raise fees accordingly so they can continue to have the same revenue base. Do not worry.

This is a smart move. Thin the dead weight. More quality less quantity.

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Much more than boys but not exclusive to girls.

This is true. Boys have social reasons as well

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Latest info from US Soccer

http://www.ussoccer.com/coaching-edu...nt-initiatives

http://www.ussoccer.com/~/media/file...s(2).pdf?la=en

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They are recommending playing up to push development...

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They are recommending playing up to push development...

That's there cop out way to say "it's OK, you can keep your little team together and get thrashed playing up"