EJ O’Keeffe, two-time Big-South Coach of the Year at High Point University, is returning to his alma mater, UNC Greensboro, as the Spartans men’s head soccer coach. O’Keeffe played three seasons for the Spartans. Leading the team to the 2008 Southern Conference championship and the NCAA College Cup Sweet Sixteen. “This is an exciting day […]
Dr. David Carr Elected to United Soccer Coaches BOD
Dr. David Carr has been elected to the United Soccer Coaches’ Board of Directors, a tract that will lead to becoming the association president. Carr will serve a six-year term on the United Soccer Coaches Board of Directors. He will hold the title of Vice President for four years, before serving one year each as […]
USWNT Drops Uninspired 3-1 Loss To Open 2019
LE HAVRE, France – It wasn’t the way the USWNT wanted to start the new year, but should consider the 3-1 loss to No. 3 ranked France a wakeup call. The game opened a 10-game pre-2019 World Cup schedule for the U.S. team, ranked No. 1 in the World rankings. It was against the World […]
New NCFC Head Coach Has Deep Coaching Experience
It’s a New Year and North Carolina FC of the USL has a new head coach. Dave Sarachan, whose professional coaching career has often been that of a loyal assistant, replaces Colin Clarke, who was NCFC’s head coach for seven seasons. The first six in the North American Soccer League and the 2018 season in […]
Soccer Takes Over Chicago This Week
Chicago will be “Soccer City” this week as the United Soccer Coaches (formerly the National Soccer Coaches Association of America) will hold its annual convention in the Windy City, Jan. 9-13. The convention will be held in the McCormick Place West Building. The United Soccer Coaches, with over 30,000 members, is the largest soccer coaches […]
Gregg Berhalter Named New U.S. MNT Coach
Speculation has been confirmed and US Soccer has made Gregg Berhalter the 37th senior head coach in U.S. Men’s National Team history a reality. The position had been vacant for 416 days following the resignation of Bruce Arena on October 13, 201 after the failure of the USA men to qualify for the 2018 FIFA […]
Should Referees Call Players By Their First Name?
By Randy Vogt The green team was about to play red in a high school summer league game. Green’s keeper was wearing a red shirt so I asked him to change his jersey. He said that he did not have another jersey and the green coach did not have pinnies so he asked the red […]
Wake Forest Seeded First In NCAA D1 Men’s Tourney
The field and bracket for the 2018 NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Championship has been announced by the NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Committee, which awarded the tournament’s No. 1 seed to Wake Forest. Men’s D1 Bracket The Demon Deacons won the Atlantic Coast Conference regular season and enters the tournament with a record of […]
HPU Panthers Headed To NCAA D1 Postseason
No. 13 High Point University men’s soccer has made history, after becoming the first team to make the NCAA Men’s Soccer Championship Tournament in program history. The 2018 Panthers are also the first men’s program in the history of HPU to earn an at-large bid to a championship tournament as they will play host to […]
USMNT To Take On England, Italy In Europe
Dave Sarachan has been the Interim U.S. Men’s National Coach for the past year. Officially he does not have interim on his job description in the 2018 media guide. But everyone knows he has been a “caretaker” national coach after serving as Bruce Arena‘s assistant after a 2-1 loss to Trinidad & Tobago knocked the […]