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 […]
u.s. under-20 women’s national team
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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 […]
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Concacaf Under-20 Championship results and schedule
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 […]