Longtime soccer executive and administrator Richard Groff, 71, grew up playing soccer in Pennsylvania and first became affiliated with soccer administration as an official with the Eastern Pennsylvania Youth Soccer Association in 1986. He began serving as U.S. Soccer Federation treasurer in 1990 and helped organize the U.S. Cup tournament that served a dry run […]
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Tennessee SC's Ronnie Woodard: 'Start teaching and stop yelling'
Interview by Charley Nordin Last year marked the first time a club from Tennessee won a U.S. Youth Soccer national championship. Coached by Ronnie Woodard,Tennessee SC’s U-18 girls lifted the Francis J. Kelly Cup and Woodard was named the 2016 NSCAA National Coach of the Year. Woodard (née Coveleskie) started coaching after playinggoalkeeper at Duke […]
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Roster: U.S. U-18 girls head to Australia
Coach Jaime Frias has named a 20-player roster for the U.S. U-18 women national team’s training camp in Canberra, Australia (June 28-July 13). The USA will play Canada’sU-20s (July 6) and Australia’s U-20s (July 10 and 12) in Canberra. The roster is comprised of 12 players born in 2000, seven 1999s and one 1998 (Natalie […]
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NWSL: Waldrum is out as Houston head coach
Randy Waldrum, who left his job as head coach at Notre Dame, one of the most successful women’s programs in the country, to take over as the Houston Dash head coach for its launch in 2014, isout. The Dash and Waldrum agreed to part ways just seven games into the 2017 season. Assistant coach Omar […]
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This U.S. loss to Mexico for U-17 Concacaf crown 'stings'
The USA qualified for the 2017 U-17 World Cup on Friday with a 6-2 win over Cuba, but on Sunday Mexico denied Coach John Hackworth’s team the icing on the cake, beating the USAin Concacaf U-17 Championship final in a penalty-kick shootout after a 1-1 tie in Panama City. The USA, which had beaten Mexico, […]
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CCL: Omar Gonzalez adds to packed trophy case
Omar Gonzalez might have been disappointed at first when MLS salary rules pushed him out the door at the LA Galaxy, but the move has all turned out well as he won his second trophy at Mexico’sPachuca, capturing the Concacaf Champions League on Wednesday. It gives 11 championships (national team, pros, college and youth) in […]
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No pain, no risk, no gain
After I wrote my article about the obstacles to the development of the fifthpillar – namely technical development, some very interesting developments in the US soccer scene surfaced out. I am using the verb “surfaced” because all of those developments, Ibelieve are the manifestations of long overdue unattended problems in the soccer structure of our […]
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A major schism: U.S. Youth Soccer strikes back at Washington state for seeking sole USSF registration
By Mike Woitalla In response to Washington Youth Soccer announcing its quest to register its players solely with the U.S. Soccer Federation, U.S. Youth Soccer announced that ithas “formally accepted WYSA’s resignation from U.S. Youth Soccer effective as of January 1, 2017″ — a move WYSA states it has not taken. The Dec. 15 USYS memo […]
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Soccer must get around obstacles to its fifth pillar without poking the bee hive
I witnessed the blooming of soccer in this country during my stay in the USA 30 years ago (1978-1987). The emergence of women’s soccer fueled by Title IX was especially phenomenal. Althoughthe old NASL folded while I was here, the youth development was very promising. I watched the development of soccer in this country across the […]
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The USA-Mexico rivalry: on the border
On the USA-Mexico border in El Paso, soccer is a big deal. Young players find themselves recruited by clubs from both sides of the border. As Sam Borden writes, “Those same choices comefreighted with other burdens, among them family and citizenship and nationalism and identity, that will follow them into adulthood.”