Already assured of winning its group, the U.S. U-17 Men’s National Team defeated El Salvador 1-0 behind Zyen Jones‘ fifty second-minute strike to close out Group C play with a perfect 3-0-0 record at the 2017 CONCACAF U-17 Championship. With a spot in Classification Stage Group D secured, U.S. head coach John Hackworth shuffled his […]
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Anson Dorrance Lecture Highlights Character
By Susan Hudson, University Gazette University of North Carolina women’s soccer coach Anson Dorrance performs the same ritual before each national championship game his team plays (a whopping 24, with 22 of those victories). It doesn’t have anything to do with superstition. It’s all about appreciation. “I spend the entire day and half the night before […]
Think He Can’t Score…..You Don’t Know Jack!
By Ray Alley The Los Angeles Galaxy is Jack McIrnerny’s fifth professional team, sixth if you count a one-game loan to the Harrisburg City Islanders in 2010. The Galaxy became his fifth Major League Soccer team after being signed off waivers from the Portland Timers, where he made 24 appearances last year, scoring a half […]
USA WNT Rolls To Dominate 5-1 Victory
The U.S. Women’s National Team completed a “Texas Sweep” of international friendlies against Russia with a 5-1 win in front of 11,347 fans on a beautiful spring day at BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston. Crystal Dunn, who played her collegiate soccer at UNC Chapel Hill, picked up right where she left off in Dallas, adding […]
USWNT Shuts Out Russia In Texas
After finishing fouth in the four-team SheBelieves Cup, and falling to second in the FIFA world ranking, the U.S. Women’s National Team shut out Russia 4-0 in their first time back on the field. Crystal Dunn and Allie Long supplied the goals, each scoring twice. The team got strong play from Rose Lavelle andMallory Pugh in front of a sold-out crowd […]
Dempsey’s Hat Trick Paces Big USA Win
The U.S. Men’s National Team used a hat trick from Clint Dempsey as well as well as goals from Sebastian Lletget, Michael Bradley and Christian Pulisic to earn an emphatic 6-0 Final Round World Cup Qualifying win against Honduras at Avaya Stadium. The victory gives the U.S. its first three points of the Hexagonal and pushes […]
Clock Ticking On U17 Men’s National Team Residency Program
After establishing a blueprint for creating a successful every day training environment, the U.S. Soccer Under-17 Men’s National Team Residency Program will complete its final semester after 18 years at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. “One of our main hopes when establishing the U.S. Soccer Residency Program was that at some point advancements in […]
Arena Names 24 For Upcoming Qualifiers
U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Bruce Arena has called 24 players to San Jose, Calif., in advance of the critical World Cup Qualifiers against Honduras and Panama. Players begin reporting to San Jose on March 19 ahead of USA-Honduras, presented by Volpi Foods. The match will take place on Friday, March 24, at Avaya […]
U.S. U-20s Win CONCACAF Title On PKs
The U.S. Under-20 Men’s National Team, coached by Tab Ramos, won the 2017 CONCACAF U-20 Championship by defeating Honduras 5-3 on penalty kicks following a 0-0 draw in Sunday’s Final. After going perfect through the first four rounds of the shootout, Danny Acosta slotted the game-winning penalty kick into the lower left corner to earn the […]
U.S. Women Upset By England, 1-0
Sixty-seven years after the U.S MNT upset England 1-0 in the 1950 World Cup, England produced an upset of its own when they handed the World #1 USWNT a 1-0 loss in the second round of the 2017 SheBelievs Cup before a sold-out crowd in New Jersey’s Red Bull Arena. It was England’s first-ever WNT […]