The National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s highest award is the Honor Award. This year’s winner — announced at the awards dinner at the NSCAA’s 50th annual convention in Nashville, Tenn. –is Soccer America chairman and founder Clay Berling, the first non-player, coach or referee to receive the award, which is voted upon by a […]
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NWSL: Waldrum is out as Houston head coach
Randy Waldrum, who left his job as head coach at Notre Dame, one of the most successful women’s programs in the country, to take over as the Houston Dash head coach for its launch in 2014, isout. The Dash and Waldrum agreed to part ways just seven games into the 2017 season. Assistant coach Omar […]
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LA17: Sunny days are coming
Sunny Los Angeles? The first day of the NSCAA coaches convention in downtown Los Angeles hardly lived up to its billing. But the weather is expected to get better for the rest of the week. SOCCER AMERICA: Visit the Soccer America staff at Booth 427, straight ahead, to your left, as you enter the Exhibit Hall, […]
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MLS: Combine kicks off in shadows of NSCAA Convention
The NSCAA Convention’s move to sunny Los Angeles — weather forecast isn’t good, though — prompted MLS to move its adidas Player Combine to nearby Carson, California, home of the LA Galaxy,and push back its schedule. Games will be played Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, a day before the SuperDraft at the LA Convention Center. 2017adidas Player Combine: […]
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LA schedules announced for NSCAA and MLS events
Los Angeles will be the place to be for soccer in January. It will for the first time host the NSCAA Convention — Jan. 11-15 at the LA Convention Center — and it will be the site of both the adidasMLS Player Combine and MLS SuperDraft. NSCAA Convention: Schedule The MLS combine returns to Los […]
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Award: Ron Broadbent receives NSCAA's highest honor
Ron Broadbent has been named the NSCAA’s 2016 Honor Award recipient, the NSCAA’s highest honor, which dates back to 1942. Broadbent, a native of Brockport, N.Y.,retired in 1990 after a longtime career as an educator, coach and administrator at both the high school and collegiate levels. A goalkeeper at the State University of New York […]
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Coaching Education: Futsal online course
The NSCAA and U.S. Futsal have launched the first online futsal coaching course. The course, available at www.NSCAA.com/Futsal, consists of eight core and five elective modules including: • History of thegame • Basic techniques and tactics • Rules of the game • Benefits Futsal training can offer youth soccer coaches and players • Training activities […]
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How to coach heading — NSCAA delivers excellent online course
By Mike Woitalla Soccer’s birth date is widely considered to be Dec. 8, 1863, when the English FA published its first set of rules — after a heated debate on whether playersshould be allowed to kick each other as well as the ball. Those who believed that “kicking out at the opponent, that is the […]
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U.S. U-20 women scoreless in World Cup prep tourney
By Mike Woitalla Another sign that other nations are catching up with the USA in women’s soccer came at this month’s U-20 Women’s NTC Invitational in Carson,California. Two months before the 2016 U-20 Women’s World Cup in Papua New Guinea, the USA went winless and scoreless in its three games. Coach MichelleFrench’s team opened against […]
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NSCAA launches new youth coaching courses
The National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) is offering new coaching education programs that focus on small-sided games, from 4v4through 11v11. “Experts have long pointed to small-sided games as the right way for young players to develop their soccer skills,” said Lynn Berling-Manuel, NSCAAChief Executive Officer. “Recent changes in the youth soccer landscape has […]