Oak Mountain senior defender Chandler Stroupe, who is headed to UAB in the fall, has been named 2012-2013 Gatorade Alabama Boys Soccer Player of the Year. Stroupe had 13 goals and 12 assists for the state championship runnerup Eagles. Stroupe is the second player from the Oak Mountain program to earn the Gatorade honor. Former […]
Mountain Brook, Vestavia Defense Rules
Spartans, Rebels Win Class 6A State Titles Defense ruled the day for the 2013 Alabama 6A state champions. Mountain Brook (22-3-2) allowed only one goal and posted four shutouts in postseason play to win the first championship. The Spartans blanked #1 Huntsville (1-0) in the semifinals and Oak Mountain (2-0) in the title match at […]
Briarwood Christian, Athens Win 5A Titles
Briarwood Christian and Athens captured the 2013 Alabama Class 5A boys and girls state championships, respectively. The Lions, with 13 seniors, won their fourth boys state title with a 3-0 victory over Saint Paul’s behind a pair of goals from Grant Janich. Saint Paul’s lost in the state finals for the third straight year, but […]
North-South All-Star Teams Announced
Alabama’s North-South All-Star boys and girls soccer games differ from most other high school all-star events. The Alabama games, July 16 at Emory Folmar Soccer Complex are for rising juniors. The games are sponsored by the Alabama High School Athletic Directors & Coaches Association and will be held during the 17th Annual Alabama All-Star Sports […]
1A Collinsville Captures Boys 1A-4A State Title, Randolph Wins Girls
With the score tied 1-1 at halftime, Collinsville exploded for three unanswered second-half goals to beat Westminster-Oak Mountain for the Alabama boys Class 1A-4A state title. The girls Class 1A-4A championship went to Randolph with a 1-0 victory over two-time defending champs Montgomery Academy. It was the first boys soccer state title for Collinsville, a […]
Florida Soccer
VSI Tampa Bay FC has signed former American college and professional midfielder Stacy Bishop for the 2013 W-League season. Bishop, a native of the Tampa area, last played for the Atlanta Beat of Women’s Professional Soccer. She played for Land O’Lakes HS and led her team to the state championship as a senior. She still […]
NSCAA’s Summer Sympositum
Central Florida To Host Inaugural Event In August The National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s annual convention is the biggest soccer coaches gathering in the United States. Make that the largest in the world. It is always in January and the weather is usually cold. This past convention was in Indianapolis, and next year it […]
Next MLS Team Goes To NY
It wasn’t the news Orlando City Lions officials wanted to hear, but it wasn’t altogether a surprise. Major League Soccer has announced a partnership between Manchester City Football Club and MLB’s New York Yankees, which has acquired the League’s 20th expansion club which will take the field in 2015. Orlando had actively sought to bring […]
Clearwater Native Back ‘Home’ In Sunshine State
Jeff Attinella is a Florida guy, who thought he might spend the 2003 Major League Soccer season in Salt Lake City. But he’s back in the Sunshine State, on loan from Real Salt Lake for the NASL season with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. A year ago the 24-year old Clearwater native, lined up in goal […]
Strikers, Rowdies To Host MLS In Open Cup
The Fort Lauderdale Strikers and Tampa Bay Rowdies have earned games against Major Soccer League clubs in the third round of the 2013 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. The Strikers won a dramatic penalty shootout (7-6) after a 1-1 draw with Laredo Heat, who played much of the second half and extra time a man […]