By Mike Woitalla(@MikeWoitalla) The Alex Morgan we’ll see at this summer’s Women’s World Cup got hernational team break with the U.S. U-20 national team that under Coach Tony DiCicco won the 2008 U-20 Women’s World Cup. “Playing with the U-20 team was huge thingfor me,” says Morgan, a late arrival to the squad after her freshman […]
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How Refs Make the Whistle Work For Them
By Randy Vogt Soccer referees carry their whistles in their hands, not in their mouths. In raising the whistle to the mouth to blow it, a referee has a moment to analyze a foul tomake certain that there is not an advantage situation developing. When I spot a ref running down the field with the […]
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Coaches can decrease ACL injury rate (Dr. Bert Mandelbaum Q&A)
Interview by Mike Woitalla Dr. Bert Mandelbaum, a U.S. Soccer Federation team physician for more than two decades, has been a pioneer in researching ACL injurytrends and creating injury-prevention programs. SOCCER AMERICA: How confident are you that ACL injuries can prevented if coaches implement injury prevention warm-ups such as PEP or FIFA 11+? BERT MANDELBAUM: […]
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U.S. U-19 women's national team relaunched
The first U.S. U-19 women’s national team camp since 2004 will be held at the U.S. Soccer National Training Center in Carson, Calif., April 11-18 with 24 players. The relaunch of theU-19s is a part of an overall increase in programming for the USA’s youth women’s and girls national teams that now has teams U-14, […]
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Roster: U.S. U-20 women convene in Carson
Coach Michelle French continues preparations for the team that aims to qualify for the 2016 U-20 Women’s World Cup with a 24-player camp at the U.S. Soccer National TrainingCenter in Carson, Calif., April 11-18. The squad is split evenly between college players and a dozen still playing youth club ball. The U-20 World Cup has […]
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'Club World Cup' action in Dallas
By Mike Woitalla Since its launch in 1980, when three foreign teams competed in a field of 26, the Dallas Cup has become a veritable Youth World Club Cup. Besides a longlist of U.S. national team players who’ve made Dallas Cup appearances — including Clint Dempsey, Landon Donovan, Brian McBride, Michael Bradley — the tourney […]
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Brazilian, Mexican clubs take top Dallas Cup prizes
Coritiba of Brazil won the U-19 Super Group at the 36th Dallas Cup with a 3-1 win over Mexico’s Monterrey in the division that hasn’t been won by a U.S. club since the Dallas Texans won in2006. Mexico’s Santos Laguna beat Monterrey in the U-17 Super Group final. The U-13 final was an all-Southern California […]
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Youth soccer fights back against 49ers
Northern California youth soccer advocates, including Santa Clara Youth Soccer League President Tino Silva, have launched Stand Up for Santa Clara, in response to the San Francisco 49ers failure to make good on their promises to underwrite new soccer fields to compensatefor using the Santa Clara Youth Soccer Park across the street from Levi’s Stadium for […]
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Bad Coaches: There oughta be a law?
By Mike Woitalla I’ve seen a coach allowed back on the sideline shortly after he berated, during a U-10 rec game, a 15-year-old ref so harshly she fought back tears when I askedher about the incident months later. So I get where Florida state senator Jeremy Ring is coming from. Ring has introduced a bill […]
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Roster: New coaches guide U.S. U-16 girls
U.S. Soccer’s new Women’s Development Coach Tricia Taliaferro, who is U.S. Soccer’s main scout for the 2000 birth year, will guide the U.S. U-16 national team during an April6-13 camp with 24 players in Chula Vista, Calif. All but one player on this roster was born in 2000. All are age-eligible for the next FIFA […]