The Dutch star Johan Cruyff had a profound impact on the soccer world as a player in the “Total Soccer” years of the 1970s and as a coach, especially while in charge ofBarcelona’s “Dream Team” of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when he had great influence on Pep Guardiola. American Todd Beane, a coach, […]
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Pay-to-Play: The complexity of high-cost youth soccer explained by former Bay Area club president Eric Sippel
By Mike Woitalla To gather further insight into American youth soccer pay-to-play, we speak to Eric Sippel, who has vast experience in youth soccer and the financial world. A Stanford law schoolgraduate and nationally recognized hedge-fund executive who is now a private investor, Sippel, during his eight-year tenure as a youth club president in Oakland, California, […]
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U-20 Women's World Cup: USA faces Mexico in first round of qualifying
The U.S. U-20 women’s quest to remain the only U.S. youth national team to qualify for every World Cup at its level begins in Trinidad & Tobago at 2018 Concacaf Women’s U-20Championship (Jan. 18-28) where Coach Jitka Klimkova’s team has been drawn into Group B with Nicaragua, the Caribbean zone champion, and Mexico. The USA […]
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Roster: U.S. U-16 girls convene in California
U.S. U-16 girls national team coach Kacey White is running a 36-player training camp Nov. 4 to 11 at the U.S. Soccer National Training Center in Carson, California. All playerswere born in 2002. U.S. U-16 girls national team GOALKEEPERS (4): Leah Freeman (Mustang Soccer; Berkeley, Calif.), MiaJustus (PDA; North Brunswick, N.J.), Alia Skinner (United Soccer […]
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U.S. U-15 girls beat Germany twice
Ally Sentnor of Massachusetts’ South Shore Select scored five goals in the U.S. U-15 girls national team’s 3-2 and 6-1 wins over Germany in Coach Tracey Kevins‘team’s first international games on foreign soil. Sentnor scored a hat trick in the second game, in which Simone Jackson (Arsenal/California) scored twice and AmeilaWhite (Fort Wayne United) struck […]
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USA-based Soccer Without Borders wins 2017 FIFA Diversity Award
USA-based Soccer Without Borders has been awarded the 2017 FIFA Diversity Award, which was launched in 2016 to recognize an outstanding organization, group initiative or personality that is standingup for diversity and anti-discrimination. “It is truly an honor to be recognized by this,” said Ben Gucciardi, a founder of Soccer Without Borders. “Soccer Without Borders […]
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Referee Watch: When does the half end?
Soccer is that rare sport where official time is kept on the field by the referee. This makes a lot more sense than the scoreboard being the official time as in college and high school soccer and theofficials having the unseemly duty in determining whether the ball entered the goal before the half ended. Although […]
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Nick Lusson, California coach brings sheriff's program to under-served, addresses solutions for pay-to-play and soccer's arms race
The USA’s failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup has unleashed a barrage of criticism at American youth soccer, especially pay-to-play. Well-positioned to address that issue isNick Lusson, the director of a Northern California soccer program that is cost-free to more than 1,800 children. Lusson, who previously served as director of suburban Dublin United […]
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U.S. Soccer names 'Innovate to Grow Fund' grant recipients
Thirteen programs in 12 states are recipients of U.S. Soccer’s Innovate to Grow Fund grants. U.S. Soccer launched the initiative last March “to help members launch new and innovativeprograms to grow participation in their markets.” The projects receiving funds are: • Start Healthy Soccer (Alabama Joint) • Futsal League (Alaska Youth) • Play-Oakland (Cal North […]
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Is compensation from pros to U.S. youth clubs on the horizon? Attorney Lance Reich provides an update on the quest
One of the unresolved issues during these tumultuous times in American soccer is the quest by U.S. youth clubs to get compensated for their former players who go pro, as is common throughout theworld. When, for example, Germany’s Bastian Schweinsteiger moved from Bayern Munich to Manchester United in 2015, the village club he played for […]