Jitka Klimkova is the new head coach of the U.S. U-20 women’s national team, replacing Michelle French, and Mark Carr has been named head coach ofthe U.S. U-17 girls national team, replacing B.J. Snow. Klimkova has been a U.S. Soccer Women’s Development Coach since January of 2015 and has served as the head coach of […]
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U.S. Soccer: U-17 and U-20 women's coaches to be replaced
B.J. Snow is no longer U.S. U-17 girls national team coach and Michelle French is out as U-20 women’s national team coach, but both will continue workingfor U.S. Soccer. Both Snow and French were full-time coaches at their age groups for two cycles. Snow’s first team failed to qualify for the 2014 U-17 World Cup […]
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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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USWNT: Pinto, 16, among five players called up
Five players from the U.S. under-23 national team that has been training in Carson, California, joined the senior national team that just began training. They include four college players, plus16-year-old Brianna Pinto. They’ll be held over from the U-23 camp that ended Friday ended morning and will train for several days with the national team […]
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The Best of 2016 in American Youth Soccer
By Mike Woitalla It wasn’t all smooth sailing for American youth soccer in 2016. The turf wars between governing bodies showed no signs of subsiding, the high school vs. clubdebate intensified, there were plenty of complaints about the transition to birth-year registration, and lawsuits were filed by youth clubs in their quest to receive compensation […]
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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. […]
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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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North Korea claims U-17 Women's World Cup title
By Mike Woitalla North Korea beat defending champion Japan, 5-4, in a penalty kick shootout in the final to win the 2016 U-17 Women’s World Cup. Spain took thirdplace thanks to a 4-0 win over Venezuela. Japan, which knocked the USA out in group play, outshot the North Koreans 24-7. The victory made North Korea […]
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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 […]