The World Cup-bound U.S. U-17 boys national team played fellow qualifier France, which featured Zinedine Zidane‘s son Luca Zidane in goal, to a scoreless tie en routeto finishing runner-up at the Limoges Tournament in France. Besides tying the host, which took first place, Coach Richie Williams’ team tied 1-1 with Australia, which alsoqualified for the […]
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U.S. U-20 men finish sixth in Serbia
In its first competition of a new cycle, the U-20 men’s national team — comprised of 1997-born 17- and 18-year-olds – finished in sixth place at the Serbia-hosted Stevan Vilotic-CeleTournament thanks to a 2-0 win over Israel in a placement game following losses to France (6-1) and host Serbia (3-1) in group play. Real Salt […]
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Charlie Slagle named Colorado Rapids youth club executive director
Charlie Slagle, former CEO of North Carolina’s Capital Area Soccer League (CASL) and Davidson College head coach, is the new executive director of the Colorado Rapids Youth Soccer Club (CRYSC). CRYSC serves about 6,000 players from ages 4 through 18 and has a partnership with MLS’s ColoradoRapids. “Charlie is a rare youth soccer executive with […]
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Roster: U.S. U-15 girls convene in Carson
The U.S. U-15 girls national team gathers for its third camp of 2015. A 24-player squad will convene at the U.S. Soccer National Training Center in Carson, Calif., from Sept. 5-12 with U.S. SoccerWomen’s Development Coach Mark Carr in charge. Twenty-one of the players were born in 2001 and three born in 2002. This age […]
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Roster: New cycle begins for U.S. U-20 men's team
Coach Tab Ramos, who in June guided the USA to a quarterfinal appearance at the 2015 U-20 World Cup in New Zealand, has named the first roster of the new U-20 cycle. Ramos istaking a squad of 23 players to Serbia for the Stevan Vilotic-Cele Tournament (Aug. 30-Sept. 7). The USA will face Serbia (Sept. […]
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Tab Ramos: 'We need more players who can make important plays'
In the wake of announcing new Player Development Initiatives –standardizing small-sided play through U-12 and changing the birth-year registration to January — December, U.S. Soccer released the following statements from U.S. Youth Technical DirectorTab Ramos. Ramos is also the U-20 men’s national team head coach and an assistant to Jurgen Klinsmann with the full national […]
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U.S. U-17s finish Czech tourney with win over Ukraine
The U.S. U-17 boys national team, which is headed to the 2015 U-17 World Cup in October, finished play at the 22nd Vaclav Jezek International Youth Tournament in the Czech Republic with a 2-1 win overUkraine and a 1-1 tie against Slovakia. The Richie Williams-coached U.S. team had opened with a 4-2 loss to fellow […]
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U.S. Roster: Younger group gathers for U-20 women's camp
Coach Michelle French has called in 31 pre-college players for an Aug. 23-30 U.S. U-20 women’s national team camp at the U.S. Soccer National Training Center in Carson,Calif. French, who’s preparing a squad for qualifying for the 2016 U-20 Women’s World Cup, called in only youth club players because the college season just started. The […]
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U.S. U-15 boys tie England twice
The U.S. U-15 boys national team, coached by John Hackworth, tied England 2-2 and 3-3 in friendlies during its 10-day camp at the English FA national training center. Aug. 19 in Staffordshire, EnglandEngland 3 USA 3. Goals: Loader (Cochrane), Loader 61, Sessegnon (McEachran) 70; Sargent (Cornfield-Saunders) 2,Durkin (Sands) 43, Akinola (Acosta) 72.England — Guehi (Wilson, […]
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U.S. U-17 boys fall to Russia and Slovenia
The U.S. U-17 boys national team opened the Vaclav Jezek Tournament in the Czech Republic with a 4-2 loss to fellow 2015 U-17 World Cup qualifier Russia and a penalty-kick shootout loss to Sloveniaafter a 1-1 tie. Alexandr Lomovitskiy scored a hat trick for the Russians against the USA, which got its goals from Joshua […]