By Mike Woitalla The 20-player squad named by Coach Michelle French for the U-20 Women’s World Cup Concacaf qualifying tournament that begins Thursday in SanPedro Sula, Honduras, includes 12 pre-college players and eight young enough to be eligible for the 2016 U-20 Women’s World Cup as well as the 2018 edition. The roster ranges across […]
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USA names 20 for U-20 Women's World Cup qualifying
Eight collegians and 12 youth club players comprise Coach Michelle French’s roster for the U-20 Women’s World Cup Concacaf qualifying tournament Dec. 3-13 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The roster ranges across four birth years, 1996-1999. Southern California 16-year-old defender Kiara Pickett is the youngest member of the squad. Two players were part ofthe USA’s […]
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U-20 WWC Qualifying: USA drawn with Mexico
The USA, which has qualified for every U-20 Women’s World Cups since the biennial tourney’s launch in 2002, was drawn into Group B along with Mexico, Panama and Haiti for the Concacaf Women’sUnder-20 Championship Dec. 3-13 in Honduras. The tournament will send three teams from the region to the 2016 U-20 World Cup in in Papua […]
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Ashley Sanchez, 16, scores four for U.S. U-20 women
The U.S. U-20 women’s national team beat Spanish club Rayo Vallecano, 4-1, and got all four of its goals from SoCal Blues striker Ashley Sanchez after she entered the game inthe the 68th minute. The 16-year-old Sanchez scored her first shortly after stepping on the field when she pressured goalkeeper Ana after a Rayo throw-in […]
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U.S. U-20 women beat Atletico Madrid
The U.S. U-20 women’s national team beat Atletico Madrid, 3-0, on second-half goals by Marley Canales, Ella Stevens and Mallory Pugh. U.S. coachMichelle French brought 21 players to the training camp in Spain as the team continues preparations for the 2015 Concacaf U-20 Women’s Championship that will send three teams to the 2016 U-20Women’s World […]
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Another USA-Mexico thriller — in Germany
By Mike Woitalla (@MikeWoitalla) Two days after the thriller at the Rose Bowl in which Mexicoprevailed, 3-2, over the USA to earn a 2017 Confederations Cup berth, the USA and Mexico faced off in Germany in the U-19 division of Mercedes-Benz Elite Cup. Both games had a Klinsmann involved– Cal’s Jonathan Klinsmann started in goal […]
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Roster: U.S. U-18 girls gather in Chula Vista
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 […]