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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Anybody remember street soccer? Jorge Villafana does
By Mike Woitalla In the age of academies, pre-academies, soccer classes for 18-month-olds and curricula demanding coaches precisely plan practices for 6-year-olds, you don’thear much talk about free play and street soccer anymore. But ask U.S. national team left back and MLS champion Jorge Villafana about his youth soccer experience and a bigsmile comes to […]
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Roster: U.S. U-19 women head to Florida
Coach Jitka Klimkova has called up 26 players, all born in 1999, for the U.S. U-19 women’s national team’s camp March 25-April 1 camp in Sunrise, Florida. Onlythree players on the roster — members of the USA’s 2016 U-17 Women’s World Cup team, defenders Kiara Pickett and Emily Smith and midfielderSydney Zandi — are returnees […]
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USA in home stretch toward U-20 World Cup qualifying tourney
By Mike Woitalla At the U-20 Concacaf Championship in Costa Rica Feb. 17-March 5, Tab Ramos aims to become the first coach to lead the USA to three straight U-20World Cups. He’ll name his 20-player roster for the qualifying tournament following a Jan. 31-Feb. 10 training camp in Orlando, Florida, to which he has invited […]
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Roster: U.S. U-19 women hold first 2017 camp in Florida
Coach Jitka Klimkova has called in 30 players, including eight who were members of the USA’s 2016 U-17 Women’s World Cup team, for the first U.S. U-19 women’snational team training camp of 2017, in Sunrise, Florida, Jan. 28-Feb. 4. The roster is comprised of 16 players born in 1998 and 14 born in 1999. All […]
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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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Tips for attending a college ID camp
By Mike Woitalla With summer being a popular time for young players to attend College ID camps, we’ve asked Jim Millinder, women’s head coach at the University of San Francisco, to offer some advice for players. For coaches, the ID camps offer a chance to get a closerlook at players they have already scouted and […]
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U.S. U-19 women score 10 in three games in New Zealand
The U.S. U-19 women’s national team played three games against New Zealand’s U-20s and won twice, 2-1 and 4-1, and tied, 4-4, during Coach Jitka Klimkova’s team’s two-weektraining camp in Auckland. Marissa Everett (Univ. of Oregon), Ella Stevens (Gwinnett SA/Georgia), Cyera Hintzen (Dallas Sting)and Shannon Simon (Univ. of Washington) each scored twice for the USA over […]
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U.S. U-19 women beat New Zealand
The University of Oregon’s Marissa Everett scored both goals for the U.S. U-19 women’s national team in a 2-1 win over a New Zealand squad comprised of teens and RioOlympics-bound players. Coach Jitka Klimkova’s U.S. team, with 11 collegians and nine youth club players, will face New Zealand’s U-20s June 17 and June 19 duringthe […]