The USA will qualify for the 2025 U-17 World Cup if it ties or beats Cuba on Saturday.
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Watch: FIFA U-17 World Cup Brazil 2019 — The Film
The 20-minute documentary about this year’s U-17 World Cup in which host Brazil beat Mexico in the final includes field-level highlights, player interviews and behind-the-scenes footage.
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An object lesson in how to ignore Latino soccer
You will know, I think, the medical tale — a surgical joke really — about the operation that was completely successful. Just unfortunate that the patient died. But are you aware that U.S.Soccer has recently staged a soccer version of the joke? I’m indebted to Barry Pauwels, the Belgian who is U.S. Soccer’s Director of […]
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Barry Pauwels on U.S. Soccer's Belgian-Dutch leadership, Raphael Wicky's expertise, and the Youth Task Force
Barry Pauwels, who arrived from Belgium, has been U.S. Soccer’s Director of Coach Education for nearly two years. He succeeded Nico Romeijn, the Dutchman whoafter serving in that role since 2015 became U.S. Soccer’s Chief Sport Development Officer. Pauwels also served as an assistant coach along with Canadian Ante Jazic to SwissRaphael Wicky during the […]
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Watch: Efrain Alvarez's golazo and how Mexico prevailed over the Netherlands
Mexico reached the U-17 World Cup final with a PK shootout win over the Dutch after a 1-1 tie in the semifinal. Californian LA Galaxy product Efrain Alvarez entered in 73rdminute and scored with a brilliant long-distance free kick in the 79th minute. In the shootout, Alvarez went first and his panenka failed badly, but […]
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Earnie Stewart on the USA's Under-17 disappointment, hiring YNT coaches, and the Latino issue
Earnie Stewart, who as U.S. Soccer Sporting Director oversees the men’s and women’s national teams and their youth national team programs, on Tuesday addressed the USA’s disappointingperformance at the Under-17 World Cup, the youth national team head coaching vacancies, and the lack Hispanic representation at U.S. Soccer. The comments came from a conference call that […]
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Watch: How Mexico beat South Korea at the Under-17 World Cup
Mexico will face the Netherlands on Thursday in the U-17 World Cup semifinals thanks to its 1-0 quarterfinal win over South Korea on a header by Ali Avila in the 77th minute.Texas-born Santiago Munoz and Californian Efrain Alvarez started for Mexico. The Netherlands, a 4-0 winner over the USA in group play, beat Paraguay, 4-1, […]
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Fiasco in Brazil: U.S. Soccer must take most of the blame for the U-17 failure
The sorry story of the USA’s drubbing at the Under-17 World Cup currently being played in Brazil defies any sensible explanation. The nonsense starts with the appointment of the Swiss RaphaelWicky as the coach. Apart from the fact that he was willing — eager, maybe — to move to Chicago, what other talent did he […]
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Watch: Texan Santiago Munoz score for Mexico at the Under-17 World Cup
Mexico advanced to the quarterfinals, where it will meet South Korea, thanks to a 2-0 win over Japan on goals by Eugenio Pizzuto and Santiago Munoz, an El Paso,Texas, product who moved to Mexico’s Santos after being discovered at the 2017 Alianza de Futbol showcase. Californian Efrain Alvarez, the LA Galaxy product, started for Mexicoand […]
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Watch: The best Under-17 World Cup golazos so far
The Under-17 World Cup group stage provided some beauties from Senegal (vs. the USA), Haiti, Japan, Nigeria, France, Italy, Brazil, Hungary and Argentina.