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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Roster: U.S. U-17 girls head to Chula Vista
U.S. U-17 girls national team coach B.J. Snowhas named a 28-player roster for a May 9-16 camp at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. Snow is preparing forqualifying for the 2016 U-17 Women’s World Cup — for players born in 1999 or later. Six players in this squad were born in 2000, the […]
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Roster: U.S. U-17 girls head to camp
Twenty-four players have been named to a 24-player U.S. U-17 girls national team squad by Coach B.J. Snowfor an April 6-13 in Chula Vista, Calif. The roster in comprised of 19players born 1999 and five born in 2000. The age cutoff for the next U-17 Women’s World Cup, in 2016, is for players born on […]
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U.S. U-17 girls win NTC Invitational
A 3-1 win over Japan, the U.S. U-17s’ third straight victory, earned Coach B.J. Snow’s team the 2015 U-17 Women’s NTC Invitational title. So Cal Blues midfielder AshleySanchez scored in each game and finished with five goals. Sanchez, who scored a hat trick in the 3-1 opening game win over Mexico, opened the scoring against […]
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U.S. U-17 girls down Mexico, 3-1
Ashley Sanchez scored a hat trick to lead the U.S. U-17 national team to a 3-1 win over Mexico at the four-team 2015 U-17 Women’s NTC Invitational in Carson, Calif. The So CalBlues midfielder scored two goals within three minutes in the first half and added a third in the second half. Sanchez had also […]
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College Recruiting: ECNL Class of 2015
Almost 89 percent of all seniors playing in the Elite Clubs National League have plans to play women’s soccer in college. For all the college-bound members of the ECNL Class of 2015, including theseven players who represented the USA in 2013 U-17 Women’s World Cup qualifying and the one player who represented the USA in […]
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Women aim not to get run over
By Paul Kennedy (@pkedit) U.S. women’s national team coachJill Ellis has a warning: “If we sit where we are, we’ll get run over.” The USA has won two Women’s World Cup titles and fourOlympic gold medals — including the last three in a row — and it puts more money behind women’s soccer than any […]
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Gyau, Morse and Haley move up with U-18 women
The U.S. under-18 women’s national team will hold a one-week training camp that begins Sunday at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California. The squad includes Mia Gyau (sister of Joe Gyau), Zoe Morse and MadisonHaley (daughter of Charles Haley), who all represented the USA in 2013 Under-17 World Cup qualifying.
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U.S. under-17 women gather in Florida
B.J. Snow named 24 players for the U.S. under-17 women’s national team’s first training camp of the year that began Saturday in Lakeland Ranch,Florida. The group included 16 players born 1999 and eight born in 2000, all eligible for the next U-17 Women’s World Cup in 2016, which is currently scheduled to be played in […]
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U.S. under-17 women's national team roster
[CARSON CAMP] U.S. under-17 women’s national team coach B.J. Snow has named 25 players for a training camp thatbegins Nov. 1 at the U.S. Soccer National Training Center in Carson, California. The U-17s are coming off a trip in late summer to South Korea, where they earned two convincing victoriesagainst the hosts. This U-17 camp, […]