How’s Your Soccer IQ? The referee whistled for a free kick 25 yards from goal. The defending team assembled its wall. It’s goalkeeper stood hugging her post, shouting directions to properly align the wall. One member of the attacking team was smart enough to realize that the goalkeeper was out of position and paying no […]
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Alabama Soccer
Alabama midfielder Merel Van Dongen was one of 23 players named to the Netherlands National Women’s Soccer Team roster for the 2013 European Championships in Sweden. The Dutch were eliminated from advancing to the knockout phase of the tournament by Iceland. Van Dongen will be a sophomore for the Crimson Tide this fall…..Ali Sadler, a […]
How My Perceptions Changed
Ana Cate’s Soccer Without Borders Experience As the daughter, granddaughter, niece and cousin of Nicaraguans, yet born and raised in the United States, my perception of the country had always been through what I would describe now as rose-colored glasses. Family trips to Nicaragua were typical. Weekends at the beach, pickup soccer games in the […]
UAB Will Host Defending National Champ In Opener
Mike Getman begins his 22nd season as the men’s head coach of the Alabama Birmingham men’s soccer team. He believes if you want to be one of the top teams in the country, you have to play the top teams in the country. The Blazers 2013 schedule includes seven teams that played in the 2012 […]
Auburn Picked #3
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] The Auburn Tigers have been picked by the SEC coaches to finish third in the Western Division of the SEC, five points behind LSU, which received one first-place vote. Alabama was picked fourth, three points behind the Tigers. Texas A&M was the top pick with 13 first-place votes in the Western Division. Ole […]
Florida Soccer
Dr. Josef Schulz, founder of the Ft. Lauderdale Schulz Academy and a major figure in South Florida soccer, has died at the age of 61, losing his battle with cancer. To many, he is best known as the man who discovered and developed current U.S. MNT striker Jozy Altidore…..Weston FC has announced that former University […]
What A Difference A ‘Dom’ Makes
Orlando City Offense Suffers After Striker Recalled Dom Dwyer is leading the USL PRO league in scoring with 15 goals. That’s a good thing. The bad thing for the Orlando City Lions, is that Dwyer is no longer playing in the USL PRO. The 2012 #1 draft choice of Sporting Kansas City, who played collegiate […]
Strikers To Begin Fall Half Season With New Head Coach
It hadn’t been a good year for Daryl Shore. When his Fort Lauderdale dropped to 2-7-2 and dropped with a thud to the botton of the North American Soccer League standing, he became the former coach of the Strikers. That was before the NASL spring portion of the season. When the fall half of the […]
Tampa Bay Rowdies Host 2013 Soccer Summit
JP Dellacamera from FOX Soccer will host the 2013 Rowdies Soccer Summit, Aug. 8 from 7:30-10:00 pm at the new Birchwood Inn on the waterfront in St. Petersburg. Dellacamera is a play-by-play veteran of seven consecutive FIFA World Cups and the last three Olympics. He currently is the play-by-play announcer for the NASL New York […]
Stokes, Baker Lead Great Britain To World University Games Gold Medal
University of South Florida rising junior Demi Stokes and University of Georgia alum Ashley Baker will be coming back to the United States with a gold medal from the World University Games, hosted by Kazan, Russia. They were the only two players on Great Britain’s women’s soccer roster who have played collegiate soccer in the […]