Tobin Heath won her first U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year award, and 17-year-old Ashley Sanchez, who represented the USA in two World Cups, was named the Young Female Player of theYear. Heath, who the award for the first time in her ninth year with the women’s national team, beat out Crystal Dunn for […]
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April Heinrichs on Under-17 World Cup, Development Academy vs. ECNL and high school options
Interview by Mike Woitalla April Heinrichs, World Cup winner as a player in 1991 and Olympic gold medal-winning coach in 2004, was named U.S. Soccer’sWomen’s Technical Director in January 2011. We spoke to Heinrichs about the USA’s failure to reach the second round of the 2016 U-17 Women’s World Cup, the 2017 launch of the […]
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DiCicco and Dorrance react to USA's U-17 World Cup exit
By Mike Woitalla On Friday, Japan faces North Korea in the final of the 2016 U-17 Women’s World Cup, a biennial championship launched in 2008 that the USA has never won. This time, in Jordan, the USA, coached by B.J. Snow, exited in the first round, after losses to Ghana (2-1) and Japan (3-2) followed […]
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World Cup ends early for U.S. U-17 girls
By Mike Woitalla The USA exited in the first round at the 2016 U-17 Women’s World Cup with a win and two losses. Needing a victory over defending champion Japan on Saturday afteropening with a 6-1 win over Paraguay and a 2-1 loss to Ghana, Coach B.J. Snow‘s team fell, 3-2, to the Japanese. Only […]
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USA eliminated from U-17 Women's World Cup
A 3-2 loss to defending champion Japan in its final group game on Saturday eliminated the USA from the 2016 Women’s World Cup. Coach B.J. Snow‘s team opened with a 6-1 win overParaguay and lost, 2-1, to Ghana, before facing Japan in the must-win game in Amman, Jordan. Videohighlights: The USA took a lead in […]
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Under pressure: U.S. U-17 girls in danger of World Cup elimination
By Mike Woitalla One reason U.S. Soccer invests so heavily in its youth national team program is to give young players experience in high-pressure, international competition. Such a situation awaits the U.S. U-17 girls national team, which, after Tuesday’s 2-1 loss to Ghana, will most likely be eliminated from the U-17 Women’s World Cup if […]
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Video Pick: Seminole scores stunner at U-17 WWC
Florida State freshman Deyna Castellanos scored one of the most stunning goals ever at a FIFA tournament when she scored the winner for Venezuela off the kickoff following Cameroon’s equalizerlate in stoppage time at the Under-17 Women’s World Cup. The goal in the fourth minute of stoppage time gave Venezuela a 2-1 win. Castellanos, who […]
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U-17 WWC: USA falls to Ghana
After opening with a 6-1 win over Paraguay, the USA fell, 2-1, to Ghana in its second group game of the U-17 Women’s World Cup in Jordan. Coach B.J. Snow’s team took a fifthminute lead when Frankie Tagliaferri met a pass from Civana Kuhlmann, cruised through the center of the Ghana defense, and stroked home […]
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USA starts U-17 Women's World Cup with a rout
By Mike Woitalla The USA’s quest to win the U-17 Women’s World Cup for the first time began with a 6-1 rout over Paraguay in which Coloradan Civana Kuhlmann scored a hat trick. “The biggest thing we were looking for was three points,” said U.S. coach B.J. Snow, whose team faces Ghana on Tuesday (9 am […]
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U-17 WWC: USA's Kuhlmann hat trick highlights 6-1 win
Coloradan Civana Kuhlmann scored a hat trick as the USA opened its U-17 Women’s World Cup campaign with a 6-1 Group D win over Paraguay on Saturday. Civana Kuhlmann (Photo courtesy U.S.Soccer). Midfielder Frankie Tagliaferri (PDA) opened the scoring, right back Kiara Pickett (Santa Barbara Eagles) struck after Kuhlmann (ColoradoRush) scored her first two goals, […]