A 26-player U.S. U-18 women’s national team squad, coached by U.S. Soccer Women’s Technical Director April Heinrichs, will convene Oct. 18-25 for its fourth camp of theyear, in Chula Vista, Calif. The U-18s are coming off a trip to Mexico City in August where they drew and lost to the Mexico U-20s. All the players […]
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U.S. under-19 women open fourth camp Saturday
By Mike Woitalla The U.S. U-19 women’s national team, under Coach Jitka Klimkova, will hold its fourth and final training camp of the year Oct. 3-10 at the U.S.Soccer National Training Center in Carson, Calif. Of the 24 players called in, 15 were born in 1997, and eight were born in 1998. (Jan. 1, 1996, […]
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Roster: U.S. U-19 women convene for final camp
The U.S. U-19 women’s national team, under Coach Jitka Klimkova, will hold its fourth and final training camp of the year Oct. 3-10 at the U.S. Soccer National Training Center inCarson, Calif. Of the 24 players called in, 15 were born in 1997, and eight were born in 1998. (Jan. 1, 1996, is the age […]
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Mexico names two U.S. products to its U-17 World Cup squad
By Mike Woitalla The deadline to name rosters for the2015 U-17 World Cup that kicks off Oct. 17 in Chile isn’t until Oct. 5, but Concacaf champion Mexico has already named its 21-player squad. Included are two U.S. products, Northern Californian outsideback Edwin Lara (who moved to Pachuca in 2014) and goalkeeper Abraham Romero, a […]
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U.S. U-20 women beat Honduras, 5-0
Five players scored for the U.S. U-20 women’s national team in a 5-0 friendly win at Honduras. The Michelle French-coached squad was in San Pedro Sula for a seven-day camppreparing for the Honduras-hosted Concacaf U-20 Women’s World Cup qualifying tournament in December. French’s young squad, without its college players, took the lead in the fifthminute […]
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Colorado emerges as girls soccer hotbed
By Mike Woitalla Seeing several players from the same state on a U.S. national team roster isn’t surprising when they hail from California, which has the nation’s largestpopulation, nearly 40 million, and year-round soccer-playing weather. But Colorado? That’s a state of 5.6 million with a real winter. Yet the current U.S. U-17 girls national team’s26-player […]
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Roster: Young U.S. U-20 women's squad heads to Honduras
Coach Michelle French has named a 24-player roster for a Sept. 19-25 training camp in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The team is preparing for the the 2015 Concacaf U-20 Women’sChampionship in Honduras in December from which three teams will earn spots at 2016 U-20 Women’s World Cup in Papau New Guinea. With women’s college ball […]
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Tab Ramos: 'We need more players who can make important plays'
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. Roster: Younger group gathers for U-20 women's camp
Coach Michelle French has called in 31 pre-college players for an Aug. 23-30 U.S. U-20 women’s national team camp at the U.S. Soccer National Training Center in Carson,Calif. French, who’s preparing a squad for qualifying for the 2016 U-20 Women’s World Cup, called in only youth club players because the college season just started. The […]
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U.S. U-18 boys kick off new cycle with Sweden trip
By Mike Woitalla U.S. U-18 boys national team coach Javier Perez has named a 20-player roster for the 2015 Open Nordic Cup Tournament in Sweden, where the USA will face theFaroe Islands on Tuesday, followed by games against Iceland Wednesday and Sweden Friday, and a Sunday placement game. The trip kicks off a new cycle […]