Concacaf announced plans for its Concacaf Men’s U-20 Championship, which will not only serve as qualifying for 2023 Under-20 World Cup but also for the 2024 Olympic men’s soccer competition. The move is similar to what Conmebol does, using its U-20 championship as qualifying for the U-20 World Cup, Olympics and Pan-American Games. The four […]
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Sunday Focus: U.S. presidents and soccer, Nixon to Trump
As soccer has grown over the last half century, U.S. presidents have welcomed soccer stars and courted soccer officials at the White House. Here is a look at the history of U.S. presidents and soccer … 1. Not only is George H.W. Bush the only president who played college soccer — he played on Yale’s […]
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SA Interview Archive: Voices from youth, college, the pros and national teams
Last week we interviewed Gregg Berhalter, U.S. men’s U-20 coach Anthony Hudson, college counselor Lisa Lavelle and Sockers FC Chicago academydirector David Richardson. Here’s are entire archive of 2020. Gregg BerhalterOn tracking the expanding playerpool, MLS running a youth league, and reflecting on his own playing career abroad Lisa LavelleCollege-bound student-athletes:COVID-19’s impact, sports eligibility changes, […]
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A big victory for U.S. U-20 women: 4-1 against Mexico wins Concacaf title
This generation of U-20 women, whose first six games were too lop-sided to seem meaningful, notched their first major win on Sunday with a 4-1 victory over Mexico in the Women’s Concacaf U-20Championship. Two years ago, Mexico won the title. Besides routing minnows en route to the final, the USA also won, 4-0, against Canada, […]
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USA qualifies for 2020 U-20 Women's World Cup with another rout
Brian Pinto bagged a hat trick, Trinity Rodman struck twice and Mia Fishel scored her 11th goal of the tournament in the USA’s 6-0 win over theDominican Republic in the Concacaf Women’s U-20 Championship semifinal that earned Coach Laura Harvey‘s team a spot at the 2020 World Cup and maintained the USA’s perfect qualifyingrecord. U.S. […]
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U.S. U-20 men start new cycle with pair of wins
The next generation of U.S. U-20s started their two-year cycle, which culminates with 2021 U-20 World Cup, by beating Croatia, 2-1, and the UAE U-23s, 3-0, in Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia. TabRamos, who has coached the USA at the last four U-20 World Cups, took a 22-player roster that included two players, goalkeeper David Ochoa and […]
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U.S. U-20 World Cup team: Where are they now in Europe?
Konrad De La Fuente Barcelona Juvenil A/ESP (finished 2018-19 season on same team) Sergino Dest Ajax/NED (promoted from Jong Ajax) CJ Dos Santos Benfica Sub-23/POR (finished 2018-19 season onsame team) Chris Gloster Jong PSV/NED D2 (transferred from Hannover 96/GER) Richard Ledezma Jong PSV/NED D2 (promoted from PSV O19) Ulysses Llanez Wolfsburg U19/GER (first seasonregistered) Alex Mendez Jong Ajax/NED […]
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Interview: Tab Ramos on his young team that dictated play at the U-20 World Cup
The USA is the only nation that has reached the quarterfinals of the last three U-20 World Cups. At the recently completed U-20 World Cup in Poland, the Tab Ramos-coached USA fieldedthe fourth youngest team among the 24 participants, after Senegal, Tahiti, Mali. It also had the lowest median age of a U.S. team at […]
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Watch: Highlights of Ukraine beating South Korea in U-20 World Cup final
Ukraine, which opened the tournament with a 2-1 win over the USA, won the 2019 U-20 World Cup with a 3-1 final win over South Korea. Vladyslav Supriaha scored twice (34th minute,53rd) and Heorhii Tsitaishvili (89th) added a third after South Korea took a fifth-minute lead on Lee Kangin‘s penalty kick.
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Ukraine vs. South Korea — an unlikely final to an unusual U-20 World Cup
The under-20 World Cup was born in 1977, when it was called the World Youth Championship. Under that title, it was played every two years until 2007, when it got a new name: The U-20 World Cup. The word “youth” — widely held to be the kiss of death in attempting to market the sport […]