All-Star Games seldom include all of the players who are having truly outstanding seasons. The starting teams selected by fans are often the result of the most popular players getting the most votes. The game, which will be played against Italy’s legendary club AC Roma, will be played at Sporting Park in Kansas City on […]
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Pro Soccer Notes
NWSL Tight At The Top! The National Women’s Soccer League standings are about as tight at the top as they can be Sky Flue FC (9-4-4) leads Portland (9-4-3) by a single point, 31-30, and third place FC Kansas City (-4-4) is close with 28 points, two more than fourth place Western New York (7-4-5). […]
When Should A Referee Retire?
I can hear the snickers already from fans who would like to answer the headline above by saying, ‘The ref we had at our last game should have retired a long time ago!” Pope Benedict had it right regarding retirement. He thought that he was not physically up to the job anymore so he became […]
Training In August….Drink, Drink, Drink!
Sports Medicine Corner I had my topic picked out, then the temperatures in the Eastern U.S. skyrocketed. So while this won’t appear until after this heat spell has (hopefully) run its course, one can never read about the challenge of heat too often, especially with August team training camps just around the corner. Let’s get […]
Quick Restarts Can Gain An Advantage!
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 […]
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 […]