By Charley Nordin The U.S. Soccer Girls Development Academy, which kicks off its first season in September, has named its first five Technical Advisors, who are charged withdeveloping scouting networks and evaluating and aiding DA clubs in their region. All five of the women appointed hold a U.S. Soccer ‘A’ or UEFA ‘A’ license “This […]
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Venerable Queens club BW Gottschee going strong thanks to Ben Boehm
By Mike Woitalla It’s a Sunday morning in Queens and Ben Boehm is smiling like a man about to spend a day doing what he really enjoys. For Boehm,that’s being at the soccer field. When he was a boy, to play pickup games at Highland Park, he would walk a mile and half to save […]
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The Development Academy — is it time for more than one division?
Since its inception in 2007, the U.S. Soccer Development Academy (DA) had been a great success. Its success is manifested in the USMNT selection (10 DA players in a 32-man roster) along withrecent success of the U-17 and U-20 USMNTs. Let us not forget the success of the U-17s and U-20s is confined to the […]
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Making a List: 2016 FC Dallas academy pro signings
FC Dallas doesn’t have a USL team, but it signed its first player to a USL contract, giving Carlos Avilez, the starting goalkeeper on its 2016 U-16 Development Academy championship team, acontract as part of its agreement with OKC Energy FC. Avilez is the eighth player from the 2016 U-16 and U-18 FC Dallas championship […]
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MLS youth coaches begin new FFF class
MLS’s third class of youth academy coaches will begin a 14-month youth development course by the French Football Federation (FFF). The course results in participants earning their Elite FormationCoaching License.
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What They're Saying: Paxton Pomykal
“Obviously, this is my family, and I’ve grown up playing with these guys. They are my brothers. To be able to come back and win a tournament like this with them is a dream cometrue.” — Paxton Pomykal, one of three pros called back from the FC Dallas first team, for which he has played […]
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Aloys Wijnker is new U.S. Soccer DA director
Aloys Wijnker, the Dutchman who has served as U.S. Soccer Coach Educator since January 2016, is the now Director of the Boys U.S. Soccer Development Academy. He will serve as the“technical lead” of the boys DA, a role played by Director of Scouting, Tony Lepore, since 2008. Lepore will now serve as the Director of […]
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Girls DA Director Miriam Hickey: Federation is best suited to support clubs and coaches
By Mike Woitalla Miriam Hickey has been named Director of the U.S. Soccer Girls Development Academy, which kicks off its first season in August. Hickey, mostrecently Director of Coaching at the Troy Soccer Club in Michigan, is a FIFA women’s instructor who helped develop FIFA’s girls and women’s master’s program. Her soccer experiencedates back to […]
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Anson Dorrance on Girls DA vs. ECNL — and why the focus should be on the youngest ages
Interview by Mike Woitalla Anson Dorrance, coach of theUSA’s first Women’s World Cup championship team in 1991 and head coach of the University of North Carolina since 1979, has been closely following the major change in the girls youth soccerlandscape that’s coming with the introduction of the Girls U.S. Soccer Development Academy. The Girls Development […]
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James Bunce: 'Players all develop at different times'
“Players all develop at different times.All their attributes can develop at different times, and if you’re coaching a player at a veryyoung age you can make massive fundamental errors around their trajectory and their ability.” — James Bunce, U.S. Soccer’snew High Performance Director. By Mike Woitalla When James Bunce headed Southampton FC’s youth program, its […]