Youth soccer games in Massachusetts will be drastically different after the new EEA guidelines were released.
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Youth soccer, for the time being, will look noticeably different in Massachusetts.
That’s probably a tame takeaway after Mass Youth Soccer updated its “return to soccer activities” guidelines Saturday, turning plenty of heads in the process. They arrived two short days after the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) changed its guidelines around what “moderate risk” sports can do amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Their release says it applies to K-12 school (read: high school soccer, mainly) and other youth sports activities (read: club/town/travel soccer), while the new standards go into effect Aug. 17.
