Coach Michelle French has gathered a 24-player U-20 women’s national team squad for a July 22-29 training camp at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California. French ispreparing for qualifying for the 2016 U-20 Women’s World Cup in Papua New Guinea. The Concacaf qualifying tournament is scheduled for the end of 2015. The tournament […]
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Pugh leads U.S. U-20 women to runner-up finish
After opening the four-team 2015 U-20 Women’s NTC Invitational in Southern California with a 3-0 loss to Japan, the U.S. U-20 women finished runner-up with a 2-1 win over Brazil and a 1-0 win overMexico. The 17-year-old Mallory Pugh scored both gamewinners and set up Taylor Racioppi’s opening goal against Brazil. Pugh struck against Brazil […]
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U.S U-20 women fall to Japan
The U.S. U-20 women’s national team opened the 2015 U-20 Women’s NTC Invitational in Carson, Calif., with a 3-0 loss to Japan. The defeat marked the first loss of the year against a national teamopponent for the Michelle French-coached U-20s, who won the La Manga tournament in Spain with wins over Norway (2-0), the Netherlands […]
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Teen star Mallory Pugh has her own unique style
By Mike Woitalla At age 16, Mallory Pugh started all four U.S. games at the 2014 U-20 Women’s World Cup. So it’s little surprise that Pugh, as a highschool junior, was named 2014-15 Gatorade National Girls Soccer Player of the Year. Between this year’s U-20 national team camps – she’s eligible for the 2016 U-20 […]
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Mallory Pugh named Girls Player of the Year
Mallory Pughof Mountain Vista High School (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) has been named 2014-15 Gatorade National Girls Soccer Player of the Year. Pugh, who started for the USA at the 2014U-20 World Cup and is eligible for the 2016 U-20 World Cup, had 24 goals and 12 assists for Mountain Vista during her junior season of […]
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Roster: U.S. U-20 women convene in Carson
Coach Michelle French has named a 24-player roster for a May 9-18 camp in Carson, Calif. French, who’s preparing the USA for qualifying for the 2016 U-20 Women’s WorldCup — for players born in 1996 or later — is using the camp to make final roster selections for the U-20 Women’s NTC Invitational June 2-6 […]
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U-20s aim to spawn another Alex Morgan
By Mike Woitalla(@MikeWoitalla) The Alex Morgan we’ll see at this summer’s Women’s World Cup got hernational team break with the U.S. U-20 national team that under Coach Tony DiCicco won the 2008 U-20 Women’s World Cup. “Playing with the U-20 team was huge thingfor me,” says Morgan, a late arrival to the squad after her freshman […]
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Tony DiCicco: 'We should be excellent in every position'
By Mike Woitalla (@MikeWoitalla) Tony DiCicco coached the USA to crowns at the 1996Olympics, 1999 Women’s World Cup and 2008 U-20 World Cup. We spoke to DiCicco about the state of youth soccer in the USA. SOCCER AMERICA: What are your general thoughts on state of theyouth game? It seems to me that if one […]
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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 […]