Oakwood was an original member of both the Boys and Girls DA, now pursuing new opportunities created by a perfect storm.

With a goal of providing high-quality, affordable club soccer to low-income, immigrant and refugee youth ages 3 to 18, PCFC has gone out of its way to walk the talk.

The pandemic has shifted the focus of men's D1 coaches to securing a future for their programs amid the financial uncertainties inflicted by closed campuses.

Rocky Delgadillo, the former City Attorney of Los Angeles (2001-2009), is the founder and president of Los Angeles United Futbal Academy, a youth club serving over 500 players based in Central Los Angeles.

U.S. Youth Soccer is the USA's largest youth soccer organization, with 3 million players and 55 state associations.

German author Ronny Blaschke recently traveled around the world to explore how politics interferes in soccer in authoritarian countries such as China, Russia, Iran, Turkey and Egypt.

Many factors are at work in the federation's finances. Only time will tell the full impact of COVID-19 in FY2021 and beyond.

Crossfire Premier joined the Boys DA upon its inception in 2007, Girls ECNL upon its launch in 2009, and Girls DA when it started in 2017.

Can clubs that committed to the Boys ECNL also field teams in the league that MLS is planning?

Within minutes of U.S. Soccer's announcement that its Development Academy was ceasing operations on both the boys and girls side, Major League Soccer came out with its own announcement that it will be creating a new development league for its own academy teams, non-MLS teams that were in the Development Academy and even teams not previously in the Development Academy. A lot of the details of the new MLS league -- the age groups, the teams and most important and unknown a timetable for its launch -- still have to be hashed out. …

As of Tuesday, the cancellation of the 2019-20 Development Academy season was not yet official. On Wednesday, the DA's demise might be confirmed.

Last month, the "supreme committee" organizing the 2022 World Cup reported that nine migrant laborers died working on stadium construction in 2019.

In the best of times a high school soccer coach is a trainer, tactician, teacher, psychologist, nutritionist, guidance counselor, mentor, parent, friend and guide.

Throughout his career, soccer exec Peter Wilt has been well known for communicating and connecting with fans. The pandemic has interrupted his latest quest.

Last summer, New Yorker Rocco B. Commisso acquired ownership of Italian Serie A club ACF Fiorentina and named Joe Barone CEO.