Earnie Stewart, as U.S. Soccer Sporting Director oversees the men's and women's national teams and their youth national team programs.

"Next goal wins!" is the standard coach's shout a couple of minutes before the end of practice.

Since immigrating to the USA from the Netherlands in 1956 at age 14 with his family, Klaas de Boer has been involved with nearly every level of American soccer, including professional, college and youth coaching.

After guiding Texans SC Houston to the 2017 Development Academy U-17/18 title, Quill moved to FC Dallas to coach its second team.

It's a well-worn complaint that top-heavy wealth means Europe's biggest leagues have become predictable to the point of tedium.

The blame for the U.S. soccer world's woes can be spread over many parties -- players, coaches, lawyers, etc.

When I took my first officiating course a decade ago in Maryland our tutor was a very wise and articulate referee named Craig Proffen.

John Hackworth coached at four U-17 World Cups and was at the helm at the start of the current U.S. U-17s' cycle.

In full earshot of the viewing audience, the "third official" walks through the camera angles and other tools at his or her disposal.

Sasho Cirovski, coach of defending men's NCAA Division I champion Maryland, has been spearheading the campaign to reform college soccer by creating a split fall-spring season.

As a soccer referee, it's been instructive to watch the game officials during the Rugby World Cup in Japan this past month.

From his very first steps on a soccer field, Julian Araujo was the kid who wanted more, the kid willing to give extra to get it, the kid who turned heads.

Let's review what we've been told we "knew" we had to do to make U.S. men's soccer better:

"Coach Jake" has had extraordinary success coaching MLK High School's multi-cultural teams of immigrant boys.

Colorado Rapids head coach Robin Fraser says he needed five minutes to see Shinyashiki was special.