By Mike Woitalla If the USA unequivocally leads the soccer world in something, it’s championships for kids. The first youth soccer national championship in the USA wasfounded in 1935 and contested by U-19 boys. In 1975, it was named the McGuire Cup, in honor of James McGuire, who served as U.S. Soccer Federation president in […]
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US Youth Soccer: Champs crowned in Region IV
U-13 through U-19 champions were crowned at the US Youth Soccer West (Region IV) regionals in Boise, Idaho, to advance to National Championships in Tulsa, Okla., July 21-26. 2015 US Youth Soccer Region IV (West) Champions U-13 Girls So Cal Blues Baker (CA-S) U-13 Boys EC Real Galaxy FC 01 (CA-N) U-14 Girls Legends FC […]
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US Youth Soccer: Champs crowned in Region III
U-13 through U-19 champions were crowned at the US Youth Soccer South (Region II) regionals in Little Rock, Ark., to advance to National Championships in Tulsa, Okla., July 21-26. 2015 US Youth Soccer Region III (South) Champs U-13 Girls Albion Hurricanes 02 (TX-S) U-13 Boys SCUFC 01 Elite (SC)
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US Youth Soccer: Champs crowned in Region II
U-13 through U-19 champions were crowned at the US Youth Soccer Midwest (Region II) regionals in Fox Cities, Wis., to advance to National Championships in Tulsa, Okla., July 21-26. 2015 US Youth Soccer Region II (Midwest) Champs U-13 Girls PSG MI Gators 02 Orange (MI) Macomb, Mich. U-13 Boys Sporting JBMann (MO) St. Louis, Mo.
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Should my daughter play ECNL?
Aspirations to play college soccer and hopes of a scholarship are apt to influence many decisions young players and their parents make. We’ve relayed some of the common questions we’ve heard fromparents to Lisa Lavelle, president of The Sport Source, which has spent more than 20 years in collegecounseling for student-athletes. By Lisa Lavelle My […]
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Beware of first impressions: World Cup stars remind us
By Mike Woitalla The U.S. women’s national team has given us some wonderful examples of how one can’t draw conclusions about a player’s potential based on their early time in thesport. Christen Press, who scored in the USA’s 3-1 opening win over Australia at the Women’s World Cup, told us how she went her entire […]
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Judge dismisses 'soccer mom' concussion lawsuit
U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton in Oakland, Calif., cited “fairly incomprehensible” claims in dismissing the lawsuit against FIFA, U.S. Soccer and four U.S. youth organizationsalleging that soccer organizations have failed to provide adequate concussion management. The lawsuit sought the establishment of a medical monitoring program for players with concussions and headinjuries and the implementation of […]
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Cal South again heads ODP Championship field
Cal South, which has swept the US Youth Soccer ODP Championships the last two years, has three teams entered in his year’s finals that kick off Friday at at the Reach 11 Sports Complex in Phoenix. TheODP Championships will feature teams in the 1998 and 1999 age groups. Cal South claimed eight out of 10 […]
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In search of youth soccer … and do we really want it anyway? Part 2: Correcting bad habits, or the intrusion of the adults
(Read Part 1 of In Search of Youth Soccer HERE.) By Paul Gardner Youth soccer is a manifestly imperfect sport. What else would one expect from kids, anyway? It is, we are told — this is an ongoing criticism –full of bad habits that have to be corrected. But from the youth-development point of view […]
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U.S. Youth Soccer names NFL Play 60 chief as CEO
U.S. Youth Soccer has named Christopher S. Moore as its new chief executive officer. Moore served the past four years as the president and chief operationofficer of GENYOUth, a non-profit organization founded in 2011, in partnership with the National Football League, National Dairy Council and three government agencies, U.S. Departments of Agriculture,Health & Human Services […]