Becca Wann began her senior season with great anticipation, but her last year of intercollegiate soccer at the University of Richmond lasted little over one game. The Richmond Spiders suffered a huge loss this month when one of their best goal scorers has had her soccer career ended as a result of a concussion. Wann, […]
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Calvary FC Stadium Delayed
There is good news and there is bad news from the Virginia Calvary FC. The good news first! The team is still set to take the field for the first time next year when the spring half of the 2014 North American Soccer League season gets underway. And now the bad news. The team will […]
‘Hampden-Sydney Seeking To Regain ‘Their Edge’
The preseason and non-conference games are history for another year. The conference portion of collegiate soccer schedules are now underway all over the country. For the Division I power conferences, being competitive within a conference also means being competitive at a national level. Not so much different for the top teams in Division III, which […]
From Uruguay To U.S. To Spain And Everywhere In Between
First U.S. Star To Come Home To Play In Major League Soccer Charlie Stillitano stood across from Tab Ramos and was taken aback. The guy he was about to introduce as the N.Y./N.J. MetroStars’ (and Major League Soccer’s) first player was no longer the scrawny teenager he remembered from St. Benedict’s Prep. “What struck me […]
14-Year Old Gets Tryout With Manchester United
Midlothian’s Nick Taitague isn’t your usual high school freshman. Not everyone gets a 10-day tryout with Manchester United[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]. That is exactly what the 14-year old James River High School freshman is headed, beginning Oct. 5. Taitague, who plays left wing, recently played with the U.S. Under-15 national team in the Copa Mexico. He was […]
Next Month…..We’ll Tell The Rest Of The HOF Story!
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] In a two-part series Neil Morris told the story about how the National Soccer Hall of Fame came to be in Oneonta, NY, and how finances forced the doors to be closed and all of the memorbilia and displayed shipped to Hillsborough, NC, to be stored in a warehourse owned by Soccer Endeavors […]