In the wake of announcing new Player Development Initiatives –standardizing small-sided play through U-12 and changing the birth-year registration to January — December, U.S. Soccer released the following statements from U.S. Youth Technical DirectorTab Ramos. Ramos is also the U-20 men’s national team head coach and an assistant to Jurgen Klinsmann with the full national […]
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U.S. U-17s finish Czech tourney with win over Ukraine
The U.S. U-17 boys national team, which is headed to the 2015 U-17 World Cup in October, finished play at the 22nd Vaclav Jezek International Youth Tournament in the Czech Republic with a 2-1 win overUkraine and a 1-1 tie against Slovakia. The Richie Williams-coached U.S. team had opened with a 4-2 loss to fellow […]
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The Trophy Debate — Give kids some credit
By Mike Woitalla I’m not a big fan of trophies. They tend to be gaudy and overpriced. At the same time, I find it amusing when people get all riled up about kids nowadays gettingtrophies they don’t deserve. As if that’s really a major problem. Many times I’ve heard the diatribes about how when we […]
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U.S. U-17 boys fall to Russia and Slovenia
The U.S. U-17 boys national team opened the Vaclav Jezek Tournament in the Czech Republic with a 4-2 loss to fellow 2015 U-17 World Cup qualifier Russia and a penalty-kick shootout loss to Sloveniaafter a 1-1 tie. Alexandr Lomovitskiy scored a hat trick for the Russians against the USA, which got its goals from Joshua […]
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World Cup-bound U.S. U-17s prep with Czech Republic tourney
By Mike Woitalla For its first gathering since the draw for the 2015 U-17 World Cup, Coach Richie Williams has named a 20-player squad for the U-17 Vaclav JezekYouth Tournament in the Czech Republic, where the USA faces Russia (Aug. 18), Slovenia (Aug. 19) and Slovakia (Aug. 21) in group play. A final placement game […]
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Roster: U.S. U-17s boys head to Czech Republic
For its first gathering since the draw for the 2015 U-17 World Cup, Coach Richie Williams has named a 20-player squad for the U-17 Vaclav Jezek Youth Tournament in the Czech Republic,where the USA faces Russia (Aug. 18), Slovenia (Aug. 19) and Slovakia (Aug. 21) in group play. A final placement game takes place Aug. […]
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Another U.S. U-17 goes pro as Velela joins Cosmos
By Mike Woitalla Alexis Velela, who signed this week with the NASL’s New York Cosmos, is the latest member to go pro from the 20-player U.S. U-17 national teamsquad that qualified last March for the 2015 U-17 World Cup. The 17-year-old Southern California product, who played for the San Diego Surf and Nomads, started all […]
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USA gets 'challenging group' at U-17 World Cup
By Mike Woitalla One goal for the USA at the 2015 U-17 World Cup in Chile (Oct. 17-Nov. 8) will be to win a knockout-stage game for the first time since 1999, when the USAfinished fourth at biennial tournament with a team that included Landon Donovan and DaMarcus Bealsey. After Thursday’s draw, just getting to […]
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USA to face host and defending champ at U-17 World Cup
The USA was drawn into Group A along with host Chile, Croatia and defending champion Nigeria at the 2015 U-17 World Cup, which kicks off Oct. 17. USA group stageschedule Oct. 17 vs. Nigeria in SantiagoOct. 20 vs. Croatia in Viña del MarOct. 23 vs. Chile in Viña del Mar Nigeria’s 3-0 win over Mexico […]
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Roster: U.S. U-16 boys head to Florida
Co-coaches Shaun Tsakiris and Luchi Gonzalez have selected a 36-player U-16 boys national team roster to train June 7-14 at Sunrise in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. TheU-16s played in two European tournaments earlier this year. In January at the 2015 Aegean Cup International Youth Tournament in Turkey, they beat Romania (2-0) and lost to Norway (0-2) […]