• Tiffany Hansen will be a U.S. assistant coach at the U-17 Women’s World Cup. Hansen, Sian Hudson’s assistant at Louisiana State, has already been assisting U.S. U-17 head coach Natalia Astrain and has served as USYNT scout. The USA opens against host India Oct. 11, before facing Group A foes Brazil and Morocco.
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USA books ticket to 2022 U-20 Women's World Cup
USC’s Simone Jackson scored a hat trick in the USA’s 7-0 semifinal win over Puerto Rico that sends Coach Tracey Kevins‘ team into the Concacaf Women’s U-20 Championship final against Mexico. The win also qualified the USA for the 2022 U-20 Women’s World Cup and marked its sixth rout victory of the tournament. Against Puerto […]
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Spaniard Natalia Astrain takes charge of U.S. U-17 women's national team
Put in charge of the USA’s quest to end its futility at the U-17 Women’s World Cup is former Barcelona first-team women’s coach Natalia Astrain, who arrived in the USA four years ago and served as a first-team assistant coach with the NWSL’s Kansas City Cuurent this past season. The USA hasn’t reached the knockout stage of […]
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Laura Harvey on her Midlands soccer upbringing, taking charge of the U.S. U-20s, and working with college coaches
With no girls league available in the Midlands region of England where she grew up in the 1980s and early 1990s, Laura Harvey played on boys teams and in pickup games at aneighborhood park where the kids included Laura Bassett, now a two-time England World Cup player, and John Curtis,whose pro career started at Manchester […]
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U.S. Soccer's Mirelle van Rijbroek on DA vs. ECNL, college soccer, girls YNT scouting, and Dutch success
Mirelle van Rijbroek has been U.S. Soccer’s Director of Talent Identification-Girls since November 2017. She arrived from her native Netherlands, where she served as the Managerof Talent Development and Elite Performance for the Dutch federation (KNVB). In 2014, the Netherlands won its first Women’s U-19 European Championship title while Van Rijbroek served as KNVBYouth Technical Director […]
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U.S. U-17 girls win three straight at UEFA Development Tourney
The Tracey Kevins-coached USA beat host Portugal (6-1), Russia (5-0) and Mexico (4-0) at the UEFA Development Tournament, the first event for the U.S. U-17 cycle aiming for the 2020U-17 World Cup. The USA’s youngest player, 15-year-old Allyson Sentnor of Massachusetts’ South Shore Select, and Amelia White of Indiana’s Fort Wayne United, led theUSA in […]
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SA Roundup: On the state of girls and women's soccer in the USA
We recently interviewed national team coach Jill Ellis, UNC head coach Anson Dorrance, who coached the USA to its first world title in 1991, current U.S. U-17 girlscoach Mark Carr, and former U-17 head coaches Albertin Montoya and Kaz Tambi. JillEllisOn theU.S. women’s drive to be even better in 2019, integrating new players into team […]
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Kaz Tambi's perspective on the USA's struggles at the U-17 Women's World Cup
A decade ago, Kaz Tambi coached the USA to a runner-up finish at the inaugural U-17 Women’s World Cup. It was the last time the USA reached the knockout stage of thebiennial tournament. At the full national team level, the USA has won three Women’s World Cups, is defending champion, and has reached the final […]
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Under-17 Women's World Cup: New Liga MX Femenil provides boost for first-time finalist Mexico
Mexico made history when it qualified for the final of a FIFA women’s championship for the first time with a 1-0 win over Canada in the semifinals of the Under-17 Women’s World Cup in Uruguay. Wednesday, November 28 Spain 2 New Zealand 0. (Pina 39, Lopez 48. Attendance: 369.)Mexico 1 Canada 0. (Perez pen. 25. […]
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Under-17 Women's World Cup: Canada and Mexico meet for place in final
It’s rare that two Concacaf teams have met in the knockout stages of a world championship. Only once have they played in a final. The USA beat host Canada in a shootout to win theinaugural Under-19 Women’s World Championship in 2002, the same year the USA beat Mexico, 2-0, in the round of 16 at […]