U.S. Club Soccer and the Elite Clubs National League (ECNL) have announced their collaboration to launch the Elite National Premier League (ENPL) for boys. The ENPL, with five age groups U-14through U-18/19 boys, will launch in August 2017 and include local and national regular-season competition, national showcase events, and postseason playoff competition. “By working together,U.S. […]
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Ella Stevens named Girls Player of the Year
Ella Stevens of Grayson, Georgia, was named 2015-16 Gatorade National Girls Soccer Player of the Year, becoming the second player from the Peach State to win the award since itsinception in 1998. Previous winners include 2015 Women’s World Cup winners Amy Rodriguez, Ashlyn Harris, Heather O’Reilly, Lauren (née Cheney) Holiday andMorgan Brian, the 2010-11 winner […]
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Insights on European scouting of U.S. youngsters by 'Arsenal Yankee' Danny Karbassiyoon
By Mike Woitalla Daniel Karbassiyoon jokes that Arsenal kept him from going to college twice. The first time, at age 18, he signed with the English Premier Leagueclub, in 2003, despite being courted by top programs in the ACC and Ivy League. The second time came after injuries ended his pro career at 22 and […]
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U.S. U-17 boys reach final of India tournament
The U.S. U-17 boys national team went undefeated in four games of at the AIFF Youth Cup in India to earn a spot in the final against South Korea on Wednesday. The final will be a rematch of theUSA’s first-round 0-0 tie with South Korea in which Coach John Hackworth’s squad outshot the Koreans 12-9 […]
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Police side with kids in pickup game dispute
By Mike Woitalla My favorite youth soccer story of the spring comes from Birmingham, Alabama, where police officers responded to complaints about kids playing pickup soccer — byjoining the game. “We get calls repeatedly on these guys playing and there’s one person who continually calls and kind of wants us to tell them to come […]
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Charleston Battery leaves Development Academy, cites high school ban
South Carolina’s only U.S. Soccer Development Academy club is leaving the program after nine years, because of its inability to “consistently provide practice and game fields and the recent defectionof players back to the high school or local academy ranks,” reports of The Post and Courier’s Andrew Miller. “We’re really hoping that we cancome back […]
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Oregon 15-year-old wins Sueno MLS 2016
Alan Gaytan, a 15-year-old Mexican-American midfielder from Troutdale, Oregon, won the 10th edition of Sueno MLS, the Univision Deportes reality show talent search whose previouswinners included 2015 MLS champion Jorge Villafana and Gabriel Funes Mori, who plays for Mexico’s Monterrey and has been capped by Argentina. Gaytan,discovered by scouts at the Portland Timbers trials, receives […]
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U.S. girls to prep for U-17 World Cup against Swiss U-19s
By Mike Woitalla The U.S. U-17 girls national team, which is preparing for the U-17 Women’s World Cup in Jordan (Sept. 30-Oct. 21), will play two games against theSwitzerland team that is prepping for July’s U-19 European Championship. U.S. coach B.J. Snow has called up 22 players, including 18 who were on the squad that in […]
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U.S. U-17 girls head to Italy for World Cup prep
The U.S. U-17 girls national team continues its preparations for the U-17 Women’s World Cup in Jordan that kicks off in September with a May 23-June 3 training camp in Northern Italy that will includetwo games across the border against Switzerland’s U-19 national team, which is preparing for the U-19 European Championship. U.S. coach B.J. […]
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Roster: 26 players picked for U.S. U-16 girls camp
Coach Jaime Frias, recently hired U.S. Soccer Development Coach, will run his first camp as U.S. U-16 girls national team head coach with a squad of 26 players in Portland, Oregon,May 28-June 4. The majority of the players in the squad were born in 2000 and are in the second year of a two-year cycle […]