Oak Mountain is #1 and Vestavia Hills is #2 in the Alabama Class 6A boys high school rankings. They have played three times this season, Vestavia has won twice, but Oak Mountain has won the most recent. Their only losses have been against each other. They could meet again, and if they do it will […]
Pro Soccer Notes
Lahoud Helping Homeland Michael Lahoud was born in Sierra Leone, a country of more than six millions residents in western Africa. He left for the U.S. when he was six, departing just ahead of a civil war that would last 11 years. Lahoud puts a high priority on education. He wants to build a school […]
Harvey And Fair Make State Department Soccer Trip To Iraq
Mary Harvey and Lorrie Fair, two former U.S. WNT players, visited Iraq in early April to work with, and motivate Iraqi girls and women interested in soccer and team sports as part of the U.S. Department of State’s “Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports” initiative. Both Harvey and Fair are former FIFA World Cup champions […]
National U14 Training
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Nicholas Taitague (Midlothian) and Jose Carranz (Manassas) are among the 29 players called up by U.S. U14 boys national coach Hugo Perez for a training camp in California. Also selected was John McCune (Bethesda, Md.). The camp is the last before Perez selects the U14 squad for a trip to Croatia later this […]
Bates Signs MLS Pact
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Former University of Virginia standout Will Bates, a Chester, VA, native, has signed a contract with Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer. Bates, 22, was selected by Sounders FC as the fifth overall selection in the 2013 MLS Supplemental Draft. He has been training with Seattle since early February. Bates appears in […]
‘C’ Coaching Course Offered In August
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] The National “C” License course will be offered August 8-11 & 15-18 in Fredericksburg, Va. Gordon Miller is the lead instructor. The National “C” License course is designed to introduce concepts that are targeted toward coaching players ages 11-16. The key contact for this course is Jackie Burket. Jackie@vysa.com. Course fee is $810. […]
Kickers Add To Roster With MLS Connections
With the signing of eight-year veteran striker Joseph Ngwenya, the Richmond Kickers continued to add Major League Soccer experience for the 2003 season. The striker from Zimbabwe, has 131 combined appearances for the Los Angeles Galaxy, Houston Dynamo, Columbus Crew and D.C. United. He scored 24 goals in MLS, including one in the Dynamo’s 2-1 […]
Kickers Sign Joseph Ngwenya
Scores In His Richmond Debut The Richmond Kickers continued to rebuild their 2013 roster with the addition of Zimbabwean international Joseph Ngwenya, and that move produced an immediate payoff early in his first USL PRO game. Ngwenya, a eight-year Major League Soccer veteran, opened the scoring in the Kickers’ 4-1 win over defending USL PRO […]
Goulet Scouts For Academy Prospects
American With German Coaching Experience It really wasn’t a tryout. More of an evaluation. But call it a training session. It was actually all of those. It took place on March 20 at Lipscomb University. Attending were 29 of the best teenage boys soccer players in Tennessee, in the birth years from 1999-2000, all recommended […]
Lee Reloads Roster For Transition To NCAA
Lee University begins its transition from NAIA to NCAA next fall, and Lady Flames women’s head coach has signed his first NCAA Division II recruiting class. Four players from Colorado, Ohio, Tennessee and Illinois will join a program that won four consecutive NAIA national championship.[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Kinsey Cichowitz (Buena Vista, Colo.), Haley Gribler (Springboro, Ohio, […]