I applaud the move and sincerely hope it works but lets be realistic. It means nothing, their rules have no teeth. Why does early recruiting happen? It's an arms race with each coach saying it's bad but doing it anyway out of fear of missing out. Same thing will happen at the club level. Clubs may *want* to implement this, but they'll be afraid the next club won't and therefore they'll be at a disadvantage. Club prestige and winning directly impacts club revenue. So no, it's not going to happen. Wish it would. Great idea. But unenforceable so completely useless.
Disagree. Winning what? It has very little to do w it. Recruiting does. But winning a tournament at the youth ages means nothing for recruiting. But age-based groupings won't effect whether the best girls get recruited. In fact, if the club is good at developing players, it will help to have the divisions be aged based so clubs that promote holding back (mostly on boys side) won't get away with poor coaching and still "win". It will be a lot more transparent where the good club coaching lies. And, ultimately, that transparency will be good for the best clubs.
