California and Georgia are the most represented states in the 26-player U.S. U-15 girls national team squad called in by Coach Mark Carr for a May 28-June 4 training camp inPortland, Oregon. This age group’s ultimate goal is qualifying for the 2018 U-17 Women’s World Cup in Uruguay. The majority of players were born in […]
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The Female Athlete Triad — Be on the Lookout
By Dev K. Mishra, M.D. I was recently with a friend watching his daughter in a NorCal Premier State Cup soccer game on a beautiful spring afternoon. The girls were skilled playersand the game was played at a high level. The players were fit and athletic, and yet I was reminded that female athletes in […]
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Ref Watch: Players Taking Dives
By Randy Vogt I started refereeing in 1978 and for every game that I officiated in the United States for my first decade or so of refereeing — nearly 2,000 games — I did not seeone player take a dive. Certainly, my ability to detect simulation was not as good as it is today as […]
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Roster: U.S. U-18 women convene in California
U.S. Soccer Women’s Technical Director April Heinrichs has named a 26-player squad for a U.S. U-18 women’s national team camp at the U.S. Soccer National TrainingCenter in Carson, California. All the players were born in 1998 and are age-eligible for the 2016 U-20 Women’s World Cup, which has cut-off date of Jan. 1, 1996, but […]
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Christian Pulisic near another milestone
By Mike Woitalla Christian Pulisic, the 17-year-old Pennsylvania kid who has already played nine Bundesliga games, is one game away from winning his second Germanyouth national championship. It’s been a tremendous 2016already for the midfielder who in 2015 played for the USA at the U-17 World Cup and helped Borussia Dortmund win the 2014-15 U-17 […]
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U.S. Soccer goes all out to prep youth teams
By Mike Woitalla This month’s U.S. youth national trips include the U-17 boys going to India while the U-20 women are headed to Papua New Guinea. The U-17 boys, whothis year have already played in tournaments hosted by France and Turkey, are competing at the AIFF (All India Football Federation) Youth Cup, a dress rehearsal […]
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Jaime Frias named U.S. Soccer Development Coach
U.S. Soccer has hired University of Virginia assistant coach Jaime Frias as a U.S. Soccer Development Coach for the youth women’s and girls national teams. He will alsohead coach the U.S. U-16 girls national team. Frias, who was the U-20 women’s national team scout and performance analyst when it won the 2012 Women’s World Cup, […]
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U.S. U-20 women head to Papua New Guinea
The U.S. U-20 women’s national team will hold a training camp and play two games May 21-June 1 in Papua New Guinea, to where it will return for the 2016 U-20 Women’s World Cup Nov. 13-Dec. 3. “The trip to PNG will be a fantastic opportunity for our group to continue to learn how to […]
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Roster: U.S. U-19 women convene in Chula Vista
Coach Jitka Klimkova has named a 26-player squad for a U-19 women’s national team training camp May 14-21 in Chula Vista, California. Fifteen of the players are collegiansand 11 are still in youth ball. The majority were born in 1997, four in 1996, and three in 1998. All are eligible for the 2016 U-20 Women’s […]
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Parental influence done right — supportive but not overbearing
By Dev K. Mishra, M.D. This is purely my opinion, with some observations on parental influence in teenage athletics: Toward the end of the school year, we gather with theathletic trainers and coaching staff to see what worked and what didn’t in terms of the health and performance of our high school athletes. We do […]