[DALLAS CUP SPOTLIGHT] Five U.S. teams won titles at the Dr Pepper Dallas Cup XXXIII. Local club Solar Chelsea is a long-time national powerhouse and a memberof the Development Academy, but the other four champions — the Fullerton Rangers White and United FC Gold from California, Sunrise Elite from Florida, and OBGC Rangers from Maryland […]
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Dr Pepper Dallas Cup XXXIII knockout phase
[SCOREBOARD] The only two foreign teams to capture titles at Dr Pepper Dallas Cup XXXIII were Brazil’s Coritiba in the Super Group and Germany’s Rot WeissEssen, both winners in all-foreign finals. For all the scores from the knockout phase … Super Group Semifinals Eintracht Frankfurt (GER) 1Coritiba (BRA) 2 Manchester United (ENG) 0 Everton (ENG) […]
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Portland and Montreal admitted for 2012-13
[DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY] The Montreal Impact and Portland Timbers have been selected to join the U.S. Soccer Development Academy for the 2012-13 season, bringingto 80 the number of clubs with U-15/16 and U/17-18 teams in the program. Only the Philadelphia Union and Toronto FC among MLS teams won’t have have teams in the U.S. Soccer league. […]
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Ben Spencer, Chivas USA phenom with giant future
[FOUR THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT …] If one of the players at the U.S. under-18 national team camp that opens Sunday at the Home Depot Center needs to find his wayaround Los Angeles, all he needs to do is ask Albuquerque, N.M., resident Ben Spencer. The 6-foot-5 striker knows L.A.’s freeways. Spencer, who turns 17 […]
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Sockers FC remains unbeaten
[DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY SPOTLIGHT] Sockers FC, the team that produced such international players as Michael Bradley, Jonathan Spector and Will Johnson, is off to a tremendous season in the Development Academy’s U-17/18 division. The Chicagoclub is one of only two undefeated clubs, improving to 5-0-3 with a 7-1 demolition of FC Milwaukee.
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Academy's high school ban a step too far
By Paul Gardner The expert. Defined as someone who knows more and more about less and less until he reaches perfection and knows everything about nothing. Not bad as definitions go. It is pretty funny — which means it is in danger of being dismissed as simply a joke. That would be a mistake. This […]
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Different paths to stardom (Sebastian's Story)
By Mike Woitalla What especially impressed the South Carolina youth coach about the boy wasn’t what he did with his CarolinaElite club – although Andrew Hyslop was very impressed — it was the soccer Sebastian Velasquez played own his own. “There’s areas in Greenville where you’ll find hundreds of kids and adults getting together on […]
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Internationals pull big upset in Dallas
[DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY] Cleveland club Internationals pulled one of the biggest upsets of the U-17/18 Development Academy season when it beat FC Dallas, 1-0. TheMLS club went into the game with an 18-1-3 record. Internationals, which won on a goal by Grant Baltes, is just seven games into its DevelopmentAcademy season and has a 5-2-0 record. […]
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Rush's Siguenza makes splash
[FOUR THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT …] Salvadoran youth star Ruben Siguenza quickly showed off his stuff, scoring a hat trickin his second game since joining Colorado Rush, an 8-1 win over Texas club Classics Elite on Sunday. He is part of an influx of Salvadoran youth players who have arrived as a part of an […]
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Academy teams go perfect 9-0
[NEW YORK RED BULLS] The New York Red Bulls’ senior team may be in disarray, but there’s nothing wrong at the academy level. RBNY academy teams won all ninegames they played over the weekend by a margin of 39-6. Georgetown-bound Brandon Allen had a big weekend with three goals and two assists in the U-17/18s’ […]