U.S. U-15 boys national team coach John Hackworth has gathered 60 players for a Nov. 1-8 camp at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. The 2000-born players, eligible for the 2017 U-17 WorldCup, are auditioning for spots at the U.S. U-17 Residency Program. Among the players is Ben Lederman, a Southern California product who joined Barcelona’s […]
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Ashley Sanchez, 16, scores four for U.S. U-20 women
The U.S. U-20 women’s national team beat Spanish club Rayo Vallecano, 4-1, and got all four of its goals from SoCal Blues striker Ashley Sanchez after she entered the game inthe the 68th minute. The 16-year-old Sanchez scored her first shortly after stepping on the field when she pressured goalkeeper Ana after a Rayo throw-in […]
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U.S. U-20 women beat Atletico Madrid
The U.S. U-20 women’s national team beat Atletico Madrid, 3-0, on second-half goals by Marley Canales, Ella Stevens and Mallory Pugh. U.S. coachMichelle French brought 21 players to the training camp in Spain as the team continues preparations for the 2015 Concacaf U-20 Women’s Championship that will send three teams to the 2016 U-20Women’s World […]
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Rankings: Top 25 Fall High School Girls
New Jersey’s Northern Highlands leads the USA TODAY/NSCAA Super 25 girls Fall High School Rankings. USA TODAY/NSCAA Super 25 Fall Girls High SchoolRankings Rank School W-L-T 1 Northern Highlands (Allendale, N.J.) 14-0-0 2 McDonogh School (Owings Mills, Md.) 9-0-0 2 Somers (Somers, N.Y.) 13-0-0 4 Bow (Bow, N.H.) 14-0-0 4 Walsh Jesuit (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio) […]
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Rankings: Top 25 Fall High School Boys
Newark’s St. Benedict’s Prep sits a top of the USA TODAY/NSCAA Super 25 Boys Fall High School Rankings. USA TODAY/NSCAA Super 25 Fall Boys High SchoolRankings Rank School W-L-T1 St. Benedict’s Prep (Newark, N.J.) 12-0-0 2 St. Ignatius (Cleveland, Ohio) 15-0-1 3 Wesleyan Christian Academy (High Point,N.C.) 17-0-0 4 Olathe East (Olathe, Kan.) 14-0-0 5 […]
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Roster: U.S. U-20 women to prep in Spain
The U.S. U-20 women’s national team, which is preparing for December’s qualifying tournament for the 2016 U-20 World Cup, will train in Madrid Oct. 19-29. U.S. coach Michelle Frenchistaking 21 players. With college ball in midseason, 19 of the squad members are youth club players. The USA will play Spanish first division clubs Atletico Madrid […]
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Roster: U.S. U-18 girls gather in Chula Vista
A 26-player U.S. U-18 women’s national team squad, coached by U.S. Soccer Women’s Technical Director April Heinrichs, will convene Oct. 18-25 for its fourth camp of theyear, in Chula Vista, Calif. The U-18s are coming off a trip to Mexico City in August where they drew and lost to the Mexico U-20s. All the players […]
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Roster: U.S. U-16 girls national team calls in 24
Coach Tricia Taliaferro, U.S. Soccer’s main scout for the 2000-born girls, will run a 24-player U.S. U-16 girls national team camp Oct. 11-18 in Carson, Calif. It marks thefifth and final camp of the year for the U-16 girls national team and coincides with the gathering of the U-17 national team, against which the U-16s […]
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Roster: U.S. U-17 girls head to camp
Five months ahead of the qualifying tournament for the 2016 U-17 Women’s World Cup, Coach B.J. Snow has named a 24-player roster for a Oct. 11-18 at the U.S. Soccer NationalTraining Center in Carson, Calif. The squad includes 15 players born in 1999, the cut-off year for the 2016 World Cup. The other nine players […]
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Thirty-three Alianza finalists land trial invites
Thirty-three of the 48 Powerade Sueno Alianza finalists received a total of 116 trial invitations from Liga MX and Colombian Liga Dimayor clubs, and from the national team programs of the USA andMexico. The finalists at the Sept. 30-Oct. 3 event in Miami had been chosen from tryouts in 11 U.S. cities across the USA […]