The Next Level Training Soccer Podcast with host Aaron Byrd and Jeff Suffolk
Sep 18, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 9 segments
Episode 68 - Aaron and Jeff dive deep into playing time, what's fair, what's not fair and what to do as a parent.
We're all over us soccer for the pay to play pipeline and that we aren't finding the right players.
And there's some magical kids hiding somewhere in the cracks that can't afford to do club soccer.
And if you don't know what those words mean, the us soccer federation who oversees the men's and women's national teams, took over USYS, US Youth Soccer, who we had Skip Gilbert on the program.
They manage how many people? How many people or how many kids play for USYS a year?
And what do they manage? What, what is their programs? Like what's US wise? Cause there's so many acronyms.
US youth soccer is member state association voted Saturday effective handing over governance of the 52 year old organization and beginning its wind down.
They will begin a two-year integration process on September 1st with full integration targeted for 2028.
Those associations will now deal directly with the Federation as local arms of US soccer.
U.S. soccer announcement did not address these questions or the roughly 15 million in U.S. youth soccer reserves.
okay, a good summary of the meetings, what happened, the vote, and if you're still not understanding, U.S. youth soccer, they manage things like the ODP program nationally, the USYS national championship, and there's like seven national championships now, right?
We're all over us soccer for the pay to play pipeline and that we aren't finding the right players.
And there's some magical kids hiding somewhere in the cracks that can't afford to do club soccer.
And if you don't know what those words mean, the us soccer federation who oversees the men's and women's national teams, took over USYS, US Youth Soccer, who we had Skip Gilbert on the program.
They manage how many people? How many people or how many kids play for USYS a year?
And what do they manage? What, what is their programs? Like what's US wise? Cause there's so many acronyms.
US youth soccer is member state association voted Saturday effective handing over governance of the 52 year old organization and beginning its wind down.
They will begin a two-year integration process on September 1st with full integration targeted for 2028.
Those associations will now deal directly with the Federation as local arms of US soccer.
U.S. soccer announcement did not address these questions or the roughly 15 million in U.S. youth soccer reserves.
okay, a good summary of the meetings, what happened, the vote, and if you're still not understanding, U.S. youth soccer, they manage things like the ODP program nationally, the USYS national championship, and there's like seven national championships now, right?
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