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Mary Harvey on the crucial connection between sports and human rights
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Wednesday, January 20, 2021
The starting goalkeeper for the U.S. team that won the first-ever Women ...
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Sam Okpodu on the joys of coaching at various levels and creating opportunities for Black players and coaches
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, December 28, 2020
The age, gender - even the continent - of his players do ...
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Amanda Vandervort on women's pro soccer worldwide: the strides, setbacks and FIFPro's call to action
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Saturday, December 19, 2020
COVID's effects on soccer are well-documented. Professional, college, high school and you ...
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Ian Barker on United Soccer Coaches' evolving courses: diversity, 'soft skills,' and the benefits of virtual classrooms
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Even before the pandemic, United Soccer Coaches' courses were changing. "Content shou ...
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Dartmouth's Bo Oshoniyi on the Ivy League soccer shutdown's impact on players and coaches
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Wednesday, December 2, 2020
After months on hold, Dartmouth players and coaches set their sights ...
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Thanksgiving and the Beautiful Game: A difficult year spotlights the many who deserve gratitude
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Wednesday, November 25, 2020
We suffer from COVID fatigue. Familiar rituals have been canceled. Players mi ...
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Skip Gilbert on US Youth Soccer's new era: The ambitious goal of making young players part of the fabric of the game for life
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, November 16, 2020
When Skip Gilbert interviewed for a new job last December, no o ...
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Coaching through COVID: An unexpectedly glorious experience
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, November 9, 2020
Fewer games, no league or state tournaments. No spectators, no film session ...
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MLS players and clubs rally the vote in a variety of ways
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, November 2, 2020
MLS teams conducted voter registration drives, ran social media campaigns, and us ...
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David Richardson's vision: Longtime Chicago youth coach on the 21st-century role of a coach, the MLS Next model and its next big challenge
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Friday, October 16, 2020
In the 18th century, David Richardson says, a coach was defined ...
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The unique Rose Shoen: She started coaching boys as a teen, now runs the Sacramento club she founded
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Tuesday, October 6, 2020
While earning a degree in Spanish literature at the UC Davis, Ro ...
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UConn's Ray Reid commits to diversifying the college coaching ranks
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, September 28, 2020
Fewer than a dozen NCAA Division I men's soccer head coaches a ...
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Former Marine Corps drill instructor Rick Flores on mentoring coaches in New Mexico
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, September 21, 2020
In his soccer posts, he firmly believes that the best way ...
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1980s star Kim Crabbe is dedicated to grassroots outreach: 'It's so important, for so many kids'
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Tuesday, September 15, 2020
In 1986 - after leading George Mason University to the NCAA tit ...
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John Ellinger on U.S. youth soccer progress since the 1999ers, the DA's big impact, and high school ball
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Tuesday, September 8, 2020
John Ellinger, now Baltimore Armour boys academy director, played a major ro ...
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Brian Tompkins on athletes fighting for social justice: 'I have more than hope. I have expectations'
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Tuesday, September 1, 2020
A coach can create "a culture of respect" but the hard wo ...
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Tiffany Weimer on valuing the player's voice, inspiring more women to get into coaching, and her off-the-field outlets
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, August 24, 2020
Players know themselves better than coaches know them, believes Tiffany Weimer, w ...
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New England youth soccer requires safety strategy for pandemic that doesn't respect borders
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, August 17, 2020
COVID-19 has forced every soccer league and club to adopt new protocol ...
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Julio Serrano leads Latino coaches group unified in response to COVID that has hit its members especially hard
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, August 3, 2020
Though nearly every member of United Soccer Coaches was affected in so ...
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U.S. Soccer Foundation's work more important than ever as pandemic widens disparities between kids with access to soccer
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Tuesday, July 28, 2020
As the nation begins to reopen - tentatively, and not at a ...
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Longtime Division I head coach Dean Koski on canceled fall sports: 'We can run and hide, or we can adapt'
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Last week, the Patriot League canceled fall sports. Immediately, Lehigh University men ...
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Mike Lynch: College soccer makes American system the optimal model
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, July 13, 2020
College soccer provides educations that make those competitors very valuable in whatev ...
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Lesle Gallimore: The Girls Academy will listen to players
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, July 6, 2020
The highly regarded leader is the new (and first) commissioner of t ...
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The new era of college recruiting: COVID changes the process for coaches and players
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, June 29, 2020
The cancellation of showcase tournaments, campus visits and ID camps upended t ...
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Steve Gans on youth soccer's Wild West and the need for safeguards
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Thursday, June 25, 2020
The alphabet soup of competing leagues, even entire associations, means there ...
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Nicole Hercules leads Black Coaches' Advocacy Group amid strife and hope
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, June 15, 2020
"I've always believed in collaboration, and soon we'll be in a positi ...
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America Scores delivers wide range of virtual Soccer Summits for coaches of all levels
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, June 8, 2020
With its young player-poets isolated at home, America Scores built online channe ...
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High school comeback guidelines raise complex questions (Part 2)
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Monday, June 1, 2020
In the weeks and months to come, coaches will learn far mo ...
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How will high school soccer proceed? The NFHS provides three-phase guidelines (Part 1)
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Tuesday, May 26, 2020
No one yet knows if there will be high school soccer th ...
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East Coast's CCL is well-poised for new era of American youth soccer thanks to club-centric, high school-friendly approach
Soccer America Confidential, Dan Woog - Wednesday, May 20, 2020
The Club Champions League, founded in 1997, calls itself "the first club-to-clu ...
