The USA faces a crucial match at the Concacaf Under-20 Championship when it faces host Jamaica in Group A play. A loss would all but eliminate the USA from making the top three in its group. Thetwo group winners advance to the Under-20 World Cup while the second- and third-place teams are reseeded and winners […]
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Florida star Jordan exceeds expectations
Savannah Jordan was the 2013 Soccer America Freshman of the Year and played for the USA at the 2014 Under-20 Women’s World Cup, but things didn’t come easilyfor the Florida sophomore. She didn’t begin playing soccer until she was 12 — she was a black belt in taekwondo — and was nothing special. “I wasn’t […]
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U.S. under-18 women's national team roster
[CARSON CAMP] The U.S. under-18 women’s national team will gather Saturday at the U.S. Soccer National Training Center in Carson, Calif., for a week-longtraining camp featuring 24 players. This is the second training camp for the U-18s, the core group that will attempt to qualify for the 2018 Under-20 Women’s World Cup. U.S. Soccerwomen’s technical […]
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U.S. under-20 women's national team roster
[CHULA VISTA CAMP] U.S. under-20 women’s national team coach Michelle French will begin a new cycle with a week-longtraining camp for 32 players beginning Oct. 12 in Chula Vista, California. The team includes four holdovers from the USA’s 2014 U-20 Women’s World Cup team. Nearly all of whomwere born in 1996 or 1997. The lone […]
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U.S. under-18 women's national team roster
[NTC CAMP] Midfielder Mallory Pugh, who started for the USA at the recently completed U-20 Women’s World Cup inCanada, and Mia-Irene Gyau, sister of U.S. international Joe Gyau, are among the players called in for the U.S. under-18women’s national team camp that begins Saturday at the U.S. Soccer National Training Center in Carson, California. U.S. […]
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Germany's Kaemper vs. Nigeria's Oshoala
[UNDER-20 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP] Germany enters the Under-20 Women’s World Cup final as the highest-scoring team in the tournament with 16 goals in five games, but itsbest player may be its goalkeeper, Meike Kaemper. From the opening game against the USA, a 2-0 Germany win, when she made 16 saves, to thesemifinals against France, a […]
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UCLA returns one of deepest lineups ever assembled
[PREVIEW: Pac-12 Women] In its ninth trip to the Women’s College Cup, UCLA finally won its first national championship, and there is nothing to indicate theBruins, ranked No. 1 in the Soccer America Preseason Women’s Top 25, can’t make it two in a row. They return 10 starters who form one of the deepest teams […]
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Dike scores early again as Nigeria romps
[UNDER-20 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP] Oklahoma Courtney Dike, who set an Under-20 Women’s World Cup record for the fastest goal,scoring 18 seconds into Nigeria’s match against South Korea, needed barely more than a minute to put the Super Falconets ahead en route to a 6-2 win over North Korea in Wednesday’s semifinals inMoncton. Asisat Oshoala scored […]
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Cowgirl breaks mark for Super Falconets
[UNDER-20 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP] Courtney Dike, a rising sophomore at Oklahoma State, set an Under-20 Women’s World Cup recordfor the fastest goal, scoring 18 seconds into Nigeria’s match against South Korea. She’ll miss the start of the women’s season against Oklahoma and Arkansas as the Super Falconets face North Korea inWednesday’s semifinals. Under-20 Women’s World […]
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Semifinals set in Montreal and Moncton
[UNDER-20 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP] Montreal’s Olympic Stadium (capacity: 66,000) and tiny Moncton Stadium (capacity: 8,500) are the odd pairing for Wednesday’ssemifinals at the Under-20 Women’s World Cup. The France-Germany game in Montreal will be a rematch of the 2013 U-19 European semifinal, while the Nigeria-North Korea match will be the first betweenthe two teams. The […]