Youth Soccer Reporter

LAFC Chelsea and the boys program from Legends FC are merging, effective Feb. 1. LAFC Chelsea, ranked sixth in the The Legends boys program, which spans the communities of Chino Hills and Pomona in Southern California, brings 20 teams and 350 players into LAFC, whichwill retain a relationship with the now girls-only Legends FC program. […]

[ID2] A team of 18 players born in 1996 and 1997 were selected for U.S. Club Soccer’s  id2 national selection international tour to the Netherlandsand Germany Feb. 5-14.   The players were picked following last fall’s id2 regional training camps. Two players each from the San Diego Surf, PDA and Team Ohio were named to […]

[LAFC] The Los Angeles Futbol Club will now operate as part of the LAFC Foundation, expanding its work providing soccer opportunities for underservedyouth worldwide. “We believe that the name change better reflects the scope and significance of what we do,” said Don Sheppard, LAFC’s founder andpresident. “While we started with the sole intent of becoming […]

[U.S. UNDER-17 GIRLS NATIONAL TEAM] Morgan Brian, the lone holdover from the 2008 Under-17 World Cup, is one ofthree Ponte Vedra Storm players who head the U.S. under-17 women’s national team roster for the first camp of what is a World Cup year. U.S. head coach Kaz Tambi will bring 24 players into the training […]

[U.S. UNDER-14 BOYS NATIONAL TEAM] Longtime staff coach Manny Schellscheidt will lead 36 players on the U.S.under-14 developmental team’s annual trek to Guadalajara, Mexico, that begins Sunday. The team is made up exclusively of players born in 1996, an age group that began training withSchellscheidt at the U.S. Youth Soccer Thanksgiving ODP Interregional. Returning from […]