Revenge Is Sweet For Heritage-Plantation Oviedo and Melbourne were extended past overtime to win girls state championships, each winning the title with a penalty kick shootout. American Heritage Plantation, Trinity Catholic and St. Johns Country Day sealed their FHSAA state titles in regulation. PKs All The Way For Lions Oviedo completed an exciting postseason run […]
Issues
Former Mobile Teammates Linked Again
Brown, Okai Selected In MLS SuperDraft For two years Deshorn Brown and Stephen Okai were a formidable one-two scoring punch for the University of Mobile’s men’s soccer team. That combo was broken when Brown transferred to the University of Central Florida for the 2013 season. Their names became linked once again during the Major League […]
Soccer Shorts
Collegiate Coverage Begins Check the print date at the bottom of this copy of Southern Soccer Scene. You will see that we moved our print schedule back a week for a number of production considerations. This issue includes coverage of the start of the 2013 Collegiate soccer seasons. We include numerous preseason previews and rankings […]
New Look For Soccer Scene
New Look For Soccer Scene. With this January 15, 2013 issue of Southern Soccer Scene we begin our 35th year of publishing. There have been some exciting changes in our printed issues in recent months that now offers our readers full color on every page. There are also changes coming with our online version (www.southernsoccer […]
Virginia Soccer
Virginia Soccer. The Virginia Youth Soccer Association award winners for 2012 have been announced and will be presented at the VYSA Convention on Feb. 1, 2013, in Richmond. The four coach of the year awards went to Larry Best (Girls Competitive), Kevin McKenna (Boys Competitive), Eric Huweart (Girls Recreation) and Camile Louis (Boys Recreation). Ed […]
Tennessee Soccer
Tennessee Soccer. Carl Cooley, who has served on the Lexington Soccer League BOD for the past eight years, was recently appointed Vice President Secretary/Treasurer of Tennessee Soccer……TSSA will be represented by Sam Colley (97), Katelyn Cooley (97), Chloe Maize (98), Mackenzie Peebles (98), Sydney Webber (98) and Karlie Paschall (99) at the upcoming 2013 USYS […]
Regional Odds & End Briefs From The Southeast USA
Regional Odds & End Briefs From The Southeast USA. Soccer In Arkansas The Arkansas Razorbacks finished 2012 wih a 9-10-1 record with first-year head coach Colby Hale. The ‘Backs improved from 2011 when they were 4-14-0. Only two seniors, Andrea Carlson (Tulsa, OK) and Allie Chandler (Mesquite, TX) will graduate from the team for next […]
S.C. Soccer
S.C. Soccer. Bradlee Baladez, who completed his junior season for the South Carolina men’s soccer team in early November, has signed a professional contract with MLS club FC Dallas. Baladez, a native of Dallas, was signed as a Homegrown Player. The 6-1 forward was an all-conference and NSCAA All-South honoree this past season. In his […]
Florida Soccer
Florida Soccer. The Fort Lauderdale Strikers will continue to play at Lockhart Stadium through 2013 after an agreement was unanimously approved by the Fort Lauderdale City Commission. The deal, also approved by the Federal Aviation Administration, allows the Strikers operational control of the stadium until the end of next year……The Tampa Bay Rowdies of the […]
U-15 Sunrise EliteReturning To National League Finals
U-15 Sunrise Elite Returning To National League Finals. With a 1-0 victory over Concorde Fire Elite (GA) on the last day of competition, the U-15 Sunrise Elite 97-98 boys became only the third boys team in six seasons of National League play to complete a perfect 7-0-0 record. Donald Emerson scored the only goal of […]