With qualifying play for the 2016 U-17 Women’s World Cup seven months away, U.S. U-17 girls national team coach B.J. Snow has called up 24 players for an Aug. 9-16 training campin Carson, Calif. Sixteen of the players were born in 1999, which is the age cut-off year for the next U-17 World Cup. The […]
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U.S. U-18 boys kick off new cycle with Sweden trip
By Mike Woitalla U.S. U-18 boys national team coach Javier Perez has named a 20-player roster for the 2015 Open Nordic Cup Tournament in Sweden, where the USA will face theFaroe Islands on Tuesday, followed by games against Iceland Wednesday and Sweden Friday, and a Sunday placement game. The trip kicks off a new cycle […]
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D.C. United to play in U-13 Concacaf Champions League Tournament
D.C. United will represent the USA at the U-13 Concacaf Champions League Tournament in Mexico City Aug. 4-8. U.S. Soccer chose D.C. United to represent the Development Academy at the eight-teamtournament because of its record of developing players and its senior team’s history in Concacaf play. D.C. United became the first MLS team to win […]
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Roster: Taliaferro trains U.S. U-16 girls in California
The U.S. U-16 girls national team, with 21 players born in 2000 and three 2001s, are training in Chula Vista, Calif., Aug. 1-9 under Coach Tricia Taliaferro, U.S. Soccer’s mainscout for the 2000 birth year. This marks the U-16s’ third camp of the year. All the playersare age-eligible for the U-17 Women’s World Cup in […]
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Roster: U.S. U-18 girls head to Mexico City
The U.S. U-18 girls national team’s Mexico City training camp Aug. 8-16 will include games against Mexico’s U-20 women Aug. 13 and Aug. 15. The 20-player U.S. squad will be led by U.S. SoccerWomen’s Youth Technical Director April Heinrichs. The U.S. players were all born in 1998, thus eligible the 2016 and 2018 U-20 Women’s […]
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Roster: New U.S. U-18 boys compete in Nordic Cup
U.S. U-18 boys national team coach Javier Perez has named a 20-player roster for the 2015 Open Nordic Cup Tournament in Sweden, where the USA will face the Faroe Islands on Tuesday,followed by games against Iceland (Aug. 5), Sweden (Aug. 7) and an Aug. 9 placement game. The trip kicks off a new cycle for […]
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Coaches Need to Control Themselves — Players Mimic Coaches
By Randy Vogt I have been a referee with the New York Metro Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association (NYMISOA) for the past three decades and look forward to receiving the30-Year Service Award at the NYMISOA Awards Dinner on November 9. Also being honored are the most sporting college and junior college coaches in the New York […]
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'Coaches in Latino community need support from parents' (Joe Supe Q&A)
Interview by Olivia Ruiz Joe Supe, head coach of Southern California’s Irvine Valley College’s women’s team, has spent two decades working to integrateLatino and Latina players into mainstream, competitive soccer. Supe, who started coaching with Southern California Youth Soccer League in 1998, is also a coaching instructor for U.S. Soccer, the NSCAAand Concacaf. SOCCER AMERICA: […]
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U.S. Youth Futsal names 10 teams for international play
U.S. Youth Futsal has named rosters for five boys and five girls teams, U-12 through U-18, for a series of friendlies in Costa Rica July 30-Aug. 30. Players were selected from regional I.D.camps throughout the country last fall and winter and the National I.D. Camp earlier this month attended by more than 400 players. The […]
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Roster: U.S. U-20 women convene in California
Coach Michelle French has gathered a 24-player U-20 women’s national team squad for a July 22-29 training camp at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California. French ispreparing for qualifying for the 2016 U-20 Women’s World Cup in Papua New Guinea. The Concacaf qualifying tournament is scheduled for the end of 2015. The tournament […]