The U.S. U-19 women's national team, under Coach Jitka Klimkova, will hold its fourth and final training camp of the year Oct. 3-10 at the U.S. Soccer National Training Center in Carson, Calif.

The deadline to name rosters for the 2015 U-17 World Cup that kicks off Oct. 17 in Chile isn't until Oct. 5, but Concacaf champion Mexico has already named its 21-player squad. Included are two U.S. products, Northern Californian outside back Edwin Lara (who moved to Pachuca in 2014) and goalkeeper Abraham Romero, a Southern Californian who plays for the Los Angeles Galaxy's U.S. Soccer Development Academy team.

The legendary German coach Dettmar Cramer once joked he felt sorry for the ball when he watched soccer by players with poor technique.

Over the summer a lot of kids came through the office to get "tuned up" for summer activities. Typically we're dealing with a number of nagging overuse injuries, and one extremely common type is pain in the front of the knee.

Being a former club and state director of coaching, I dreamed of this day! As did many who are in leadership positions in American youth soccer.

For the U.S. U-17 national team's last gathering before the U-17 World Cup in Chile in October, U.S. coach Richie Williams has named a 24-player roster for a Mexico City training camp that includes games against fellow qualifier Mexico on Sept. 23 and Sept. 25.

With the fall season underway, you've made sure your team's first-aid kit is in order, right?

Kevin Hartman, an MLS goalkeeper from 1997 to 2013, holds the MLS record for most games played at 416. The 41-year-old, whose playing career included two MLS Cup and two U.S. Open Cup titles, is the Technical Director of the IMG Academy.

Seeing several players from the same state on a U.S. national team roster isn't surprising when they hail from California, which has the nation's largest population, nearly 40 million, and year-round soccer-playing weather. But Colorado?

Non-MLS American youth clubs are pushing hard to have access to training compensation and solidarity payments, which are paid according to FIFA regulations in other nations to amateur youth clubs and academies associated with professional clubs when their players make it to the pros, and deliver even larger sums if those players switch clubs on transfer fees. U.S. Soccer has prevented the implementation of the solidarity and training compensation payments.

In July, Massapequa Arsenal became the first New York team since 1959 to win the McGuire Cup, the U-19 boys national championship that launched in 1935. Massapequa Arsenal coach Tobias Bischof, who is also a Massapequa SC director and the associate head coach of the Hofstra University women's team, spoke with us about his coaching philosophy, the differences between coaching women and men, and how he'd like to see the American game evolve.

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 route to finishing runner-up at the Limoges Tournament in France.

FC Dallas set a record when it started five Homegrown players in its 3-0 win over the Columbus Crew last Sunday.

Parent coaches. Soccer club board members. These people are volunteers. Be nice. If you disagree with their vision, do so politely. Referees make a tiny bit of money. Be nice to them, too.

It's that time of year when men and women across the country embark on the wonderful adventure of youth soccer coaching.