Real Colorado’s Sophia Smith scored three goals in two U.S. U-20 women’s national team wins — 4-1 over Sweden and 1-0 vs. England — in La Manga, Spain. Stanford’s Civana Kuhlmann andUSC’s Savannah DeMelo also scored against Sweden, which fielded a U-23 team. Against England’s U-20s, Smith struck in the 36th minute. Coach JitkaKlimkova‘s U.S. […]
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Roster: U.S. U-20 women head to Spain for World Cup prep
The U.S. U-20 women will face the U-23 teams of Sweden (April 5), England (April 7) and Italy (April 9) in La Manga, Spain. U.S. coach Jitka Klimkova, who’s preparing the teamfor the 2018 U-20 World Cup (Aug. 5-24) in France, has called in 24 players for the March 29-April 10 trip to Spain. • […]
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U.S. Abroad: Murphy's Montpellier loses in UEFA Women's Champions League
Former U.S. U-20 keeper Casey Murphy started for French club Montpellier in its 2-0 loss to Chelsea in the first leg of their UEFA Women’s Champions League quarterfinal series. Murphy, who was taken with the 13th overall pick by Sky Blue FC out of Rutgers, passed on playing in the NWSL to sign in January […]
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SheBelieves Cup: Some USWNT answers, a few more questions
None of the four national teams at the SheBelieves Cup brought their strongest squads nor played particularly well throughout three games. That said, each team took something from thetournament. The English women learned they can get results and score goals (6) for coach Phil Neville, hired less than two months ago; the French recovered from […]
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Tough draw for USA at Women's U-20 World Cup
Japan, Paraguay and Spain will be the USA’s first-round foes at the 2018 U-20 Women’s World Cup in France (Aug. 5-24). Japan beat the USA in the third-place game at the 2016 U-20 World Cup. Spainenters the tournament as European champion. Paraguay qualified as South American runner-up to Brazil. The USA qualified as Concacaf runner-up […]
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U.S. U-20 women finish French rehearsal with a tie
The USA tied France 2-2 in its second game with the U-20 Women’s World Cup host in four days. Four months ahead of the U-20 World Cup, Coach Jitka Klimkova‘s team spent 12 days inFrance. The USA beat the French, 1-0, in the first friendly on a goal by Brianna Pinto. Real Colorado’s Sophia Smith […]
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U.S. U-20 women beat France, 1-0, in Brittany opener
The U.S. under-20 women’s national team opened its trip to Brittany with a 1-0 win over U-20 Women’s World Cup host France. Brianna Pinto’s first U-20 goal was the differencefor the USA, which got a big game in goal from Amanda McGlynn. The Virginia Tech keep recorded seven saves to pick up her first shutout […]
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Youth: U.S. U-20 women to get taste of France
Coach Jitka Klimkova has named a 24-player roster for two-week trip to France, five months ahead of the France-hosted U-20 Women’s World Cup for which the USA qualified lastmonth. The Feb. 23-March 7 trip will include games against France March 3 in Vannes and March 6 in Saint-Malo — two of the four venues for […]
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Anson Dorrance on soccer politics, marrying the ECNL and DA, and the women's pro game
Anson Dorrance coached the USA to its first Women’s World Cup title in 1991 and the University of North Carolina Tar Heels to 22 national championships. More than 60 of his TarHeel players have played for the U.S. national team, including six on the USA’s 2015 World Cup-winning roster. We checked in with Dorrance in […]
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2018 Under-20 Women's World Cup entrants
Africa: Ghana, Nigeria. Asia: China, Japan, North Korea. Concacaf: USA, Mexico, Haiti. Conmebol: Brazil, Paraguay. Oceania: New Zealand. UEFA: France (host), England, Germany, Netherlands, Spain.