[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Ground was broken earlier this summer for a new soccer/baseball facility in Ashburn, and the Virginia Calvary FC are making plans to take the field for the first time in 2014 as a member of the North American Soccer League. The new team is based in Loudoun County, 30 miles west of Washington, […]
Issues
Dukes Picked Third In CAA Men
Four Teams Receive First Place Votes Northeastern, which returns eight starters from last year’s 14-3-4 team that captured its first CAA men’s soccer championship and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, is favored to capture the conference title again in 2013 according to a vote of the league’s men’s soccer coaches. The […]
Highlanders Get Nod For #1 In Big South
Radford was the #1 pick to win the Big South Conference women’s championship in the coaches’ preseason poll[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]. The Highlanders received eight first place votes, while three went to second-place High Point and one to Wintrop, selected third. Rounding out the top 10 in order were Longwood, Coastal Carolina, Campbell, Liberty, Charleston Southern and […]
Hofstra, W&M, UNCW Top CAA Women’s Poll
Hofstra has been picked to repeat as the CAA women’s soccer champion in 2013 according to a vote of the league’s head coaches. The Pride received six first-place votes and 61 total points to narrowly edge out defending regular-season champion William and Mary, which earned the other three first-place votes and had 59 total points[show_disconnected][show_to […]
USA Gold Cup…….In It, To Win It!
Landon Donovan has called every game in the CONCACAF a personal audition. He’s passing the test with flying colors…..red, white and blue. So are the others on the U.S. MNT Gold Cup squad. The[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]y roared through four games without a loss and meet Honduras in the semis at Cowboy Stadium in Arlington, TX. Jurgen […]
New Print Date On This Issue
Check the print date at the bottom of this copy of Southern Soccer Scene[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]. You will see that we moved our print schedule back a week for a number of production considerations. This change has allowed us to include coverage of the CONCACAF Gold Cup through the quarterfinal round. We expect to move back […]
A New U.S. Citizen
Danny Mwanga, who plays in Major League Soccer with the Colorado Rapids, is a brand new U.S. citizen[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]. A native of the democratic Republic of Congo, he came to the United States to reunite with his mother, who immigrated in 2001. His father, a government worker, disappered one day. Speculation was that he had […]
NSCAA Symposium
The National Soccer Coaches Association of America was established in 1941 and for many years held its annual convention in New York City. That January event has grown to be the largest gathering of soccer coaches in the world[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]. The 2014 convention will return to Philadelphia on Jan. 15-19, so mark your calender accordingly. […]
Costly For Mizzou
The University of Missouri and Texas A&M joined the Southeastern Conference and both experienced a significant increase in travel expenses[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]. The Columbia Daily Tribune recently reported that Mizzou spent $7.1 millon on travel for the 2012-13 academic year. That’s $1 million more than anticipated. That was $2 million more than their last year in […]
What ‑Soccer People Are Saying!
“I’m 100% Salvadoran. That’s my country who I play for. Just because I was born and raised here doesn’t mean I’m going to show any mercy against the U.S. In fact, I was a part of the El Salvador team that knocked them out of Olympic Qualifying, and I’m not going to lie – it […]