New U-16 girls national team head coach Kacey White takes a 20-player squad to Belgium May 6-17 for a four-team competition in which the USA will play Croatia (May 12), hostBelgium (May 14) and Switzerland (May 16). Previous U-16 coach Jaime Frias, now the U-18 head coach, will also go on the trip during which […]
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U.S. Soccer names new women's youth national team coaches — Kacey White and Keri Sarver
By Mike Woitalla@MikeWoitalla Kacey White, former Capital Area Soccer League (CASL) Directorof Coaching, is the new U.S. U-16 girls national team coach. Keri Sarver, Director of Coaching of the Internationals SC in Ohio for the last seven years, has been hired as the newU.S. U-19 women’s national team coach. Both played pro ball after their […]
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U.S. Soccer hires Kacey White and Keri Sarver
Kacey White, former Capital Area Soccer League (CASL) Director of Coaching, is the new U.S. U-16 girls national team coach. Keri Sarver, Director of Coaching of theInternationals SC in Ohio for the last seven years, has been hired as the new U.S. U-19 women’s national team coach. Sarver replaces Jitka Klimkova, who is nowhead coach […]
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Seeded USA gets favorable draw for U-20 World Cup
By Mike Woitalla The USA, which earned a seed for the 2017 World Cup, was drawn into Group F, with Ecuador, Senegal and Saudi Arabia. Of the three first-round foes, only Senegal,a 2015 semifinalist, has ever advanced past the round of 16 in previous U-20 World Cups. “We are proud to have earned a group […]
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Girls DA Director Miriam Hickey: Federation is best suited to support clubs and coaches
By Mike Woitalla Miriam Hickey has been named Director of the U.S. Soccer Girls Development Academy, which kicks off its first season in August. Hickey, mostrecently Director of Coaching at the Troy Soccer Club in Michigan, is a FIFA women’s instructor who helped develop FIFA’s girls and women’s master’s program. Her soccer experiencedates back to […]
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Meet 16-year-old Brianna Pinto, called into U.S. national team
By Mike Woitalla(@MikeWoitalla) In October, Brianna Pinto started all three games for the USA at the U-17 Women’s World Cup. In January, shewas invited to the U-23 women’s national team camp, where she impressed such that Coach Jill Ellis invited the midfielder to join the full national team’s camp under waynow in in Carson, California. […]
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Boys Development Academy expands again — adds U-15 division
By Mike Woitalla The U.S. Soccer Boys Development Academy, which launched in 2007 with two age groups, will be adding a single-age U-15 division in the 2017-18 season. That willgive it six divisions, from U-12 to U-18/19. “Over time, we have closely monitored the Development Academy combined groups to assess the impact on talent identification […]
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Roster: U.S. U-16 girls hold first 2017 camp
Coach Jaime Frias has called up 24 players, all but one born in 2002, for the first U.S. U-16 girls national team camp of 2017 — Jan. 16-22 at the Chula Vista Elite AthleteTraining Center in San Diego. The age group has graduated from the U-14 program and will spend two years in the U-16 […]
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Unseeded USA faces tough path to U-17 World Cup
By Mike Woitalla Failing to earn a seed at the Concacaf U-17 Championship that will determine the region’s four qualifiers for the 2017 U-17 World Cup in India, the USA facesstiff competition in its first-round group at the Panama-hosted tournament April 21-May 7. To advance to the second round, the USA needs to finish inthe […]
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U.S. Soccer holds girls striker-keeper camp
U.S. Soccer is holding its first striker-goalkeeper camp for U-15, U-16 and U-17 girls national team players. The Dec. 14-17 camp in Carson, California, gathers 22 attackers and seven keepers born in2000, 2001 and 2002 and is headed by Technical Director April Heinrichs, Development Coach and U-15 girls national team coach Mark Carr and U.S. […]