The emphasis is on the youth of Major League Soccer. With a focus on the future, acting U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Dave Sarachan has called 30 players for the USA’s annual January camp. Players will report Jan. 10 to the National Training Center in Carson, California. Some of the USA’s most promising young prospects […]
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USWNT Prepares For Denmark With Upcoming Camp
U.S. Women’s National Team head coach Jill Ellis has named 26 players to the first training camp roster of the year. The USA kicks off the camp on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Soccer National Training Center in Carson, California, and ends it on Jan. 21 with the team’s 2018 curtain-raiser against Denmark at San […]
U.S. U20 WNT Rolls Over Finland 10-1 In Nike Friendlies
The U.S. Under-20 Women’s National Team scored early and often, powering home eight goals in the first half on the way to an impressive 10-1 win against Finland in its second match of the 2017 Women’s Nike International Friendlies in Lakewood, Fla. U.S. head coach Jitka Klimkova made seven changes from the starting lineup that tied England […]
Young Americans Draw 1-1 With Portugal
The last international friendly was without the trappings of a game with the #3 team in the world as a stop on the journey to the 2018 World Cup in Russia. All of that went out the window a month ago with a loss to Trinidad & Tobago in the USA’s final game in the […]
USWNT Concludes 2017 With 3-1 Win
After a below-average showing days earlier that resulted in a 1-1 draw with Canada in Vancouver, the U.S. WNT needed to raise their level of play, big time, in their final game of 2017. And they did just that. The U.S. Women finished its 16-game 2017 schedule on a high note with a 3-1 win […]
U.S. WNT & Canada Play To 1-1 Draw In Vancouver
Canada and the United States women have played 57 times at the senior national team level. Canada has won only three times. The series stand’s 47-3-7 in favor of the Americans. Draw #7 came Thursday night in Vancouver in front of a sellout crowd of 28,017 fans at BC Place. Playing just across the border in […]
PART FOUR: KAP’S RECRUITMENT METHODOLOGY – LIFE CHANGING
It is not fully known why Kap pursued his unorthodox method of recruitment, or if he seriously tried other avenues in his attempts to procure players. He could have contacted the hundreds of professional teams in Europe, whose stock-in-trade is players, many of whom are released each year. This route offered access to a regular […]
PART FIVE: THE COMBINED TRAINING CAMP, WORLD TOUR and MINI-TOUR GAME RECORDS
Conflicting dates, scores and opponents’ names are entered in parentheses. Attendances are more difficult to confirm, I have used the numbers given in Billy Crosbie’s and Dave Morrison’s World Tour account. Also noted are those I have obtained through newspapers (Media reported), and left blank a number I was unable to confirm. Other publications have […]
PART THREE: THE 40 IN 125 + 4 – REALITY
The more intense part of the tour (post training camp) kicked off October 10 in Istanbul, Turkey, where the Tornado earned a credible 2-2 tie against Fenerbahce. It was one of a limited number of successes on a journey where defeats were more normal than wins or draws. From that point coaching sessions were fewer, […]
PART TWO: TRAINING CAMP – CLOSE CALLS – STILL RECRUITING
August 4, before the training camp (originally planned for five weeks, although it ran longer) began, the Tornado were allowed onto the hallowed turf of the Bernabeu, Real Madrid’s famous stadium. But briefly and only for publicity purposes; where they met the great Ferenc Puskas, Honved’s, Hungary’s, Real Madrid’s and finally Spain’s ‘galloping major,’ the […]