Seattle’s XF Academy (Crossfire) set a record for the number of boys championships won in a single season when it captured three of the five age divisions at the National Finals in Richmond, Virginia. It also won the U-19 division decided at the National Playoffs. Boys Finals:U-19: XF Academy 3-2 Eclipse SelectU-17: XF Academy 4-0 St. Louis Scott […]
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College recruits: Ivy League men
All eight Ivy League schools have announced their 2025 men’s soccer recruiting classes.
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ECNL National Selection Game rosters
The Continental Tire ECNL National Selection Game for boys will be held Saturday at River City Sportsplex in Midlothian, Virginia.
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U.S. U-17 women’s national team: Camp opens Tuesday in West Palm Beach
The U.S. U-17 women’s national team opens a training camp on Tuesday in West Palm Beach, Florida, with 24 players. Concacaf qualifying for the Under-17 World Cup will held in early spring a site to be determined. The World Cup will become an annual event this year and be held in Morocco for the next […]
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Boys National Championships: ECNL
For the second year in a row, Jake Basinet scored a hat trick in the ECNL Boys national championships.
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Girls national championship finals
San Diego Surf won three ECNL national championships in postseason play that took place in Redmond, Washington, and Henrico, Virginia.
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Latest shifts in post-DA girls soccer: ECNL and Girls Academy announce new members
Five of the six clubs joining ECNL Girls for the 2021-22 season are leaving the recently launched Girls Academy, which announced the first 10 of its new members for its second season. The new ECNL national league clubs include four that had fielded teams in ECNL’s regional league. The Girls Academy launched in the wake […]
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Comparing youth leagues in the wake of the DA's demise
When the Development Academy folded its tent earlier this year, MLS immediately launched its own academy to keep control of its clubs’ youth efforts. Some clubs still jumped over to the ECNL, and a few put teams in both national leagues. On the girls side, where the ECNL had already kept a lot of its […]
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Lorne Donaldson on MLS Next uncertainty, ECNL Girls supremacy, and high school conflicts
Lorne Donaldson is the longtime Executive Director of Coaching of Real Colorado, a club that joined U.S. Soccer Boys Development Academy upon its launch in 2007, ECNL Girls whenit started in 2009, and the Girls DA upon its creation in 2017. After two seasons of playing in both the Girls DA (winning the inaugural U-16/17 […]
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Pateadores' Teddy Chronopoulos on choosing ECNL Boys, continuing a relationship with MLS clubs, and the benefits of high school soccer
Pateadores, a founding member of the recently defunct U.S. Soccer’s Boys Development Academy, lifted the 2011 DA U-17/18 national title and was part of the DA’s U-19 top tier in 2019-20. Pateadoresand six other Southern California former DA clubs have committed to ECNL Boys and will play in the 19-team Southwest Conference. Ted Chronopoulos is […]