90th-Minute Game Winner. Eddie Johnson, playing for the U.S. MNT for the first time since 2010, scored a pair of goals to lead his team to a 2-1 victory against Antigua & Barbuda in a key away CONCACAF World Cup qualifier. Johnson scored the first goal in the 20th minute of the game off an […]
Corner Kicks
Hexagonal Teams
Hexagonal Teams. Jamaica earned the other spot in the final six-team round robin next year from Group A, which included the U.S. Mexico went 6-0 to win Group B, with El Salvador and Guyana not advancing from that group. Costa Rica finished second in Group B Honduras finished first in Group C after blitzing Canada […]
U.S. Under-20 Men
U.S. Under-20 Men. Hexagonal Teams Tab Ramos’ U.S. Under-20 Men’s National Team scored twice in the second half to cap off a 3-2 win against the Azerbaijan Under-21 Men’s National Team in the final of three international friendly matches for the U.S. at the 2012 Marbella Cup in Spain. Daniel Cuevas and Benji Joya scored […]
U17 World Cup Champs
U17 World Cup Champs. France and North Korea tied 1-1 in the championship match, which was settled by a 7-6 penalty kick shootout. The winning Europeans won four, drew two and lost none of their six tournament matches. The adidas Golden Ball for the best player went to France’s outstanding defender Griedge Mbock Bathy. In […]
U.S. WNT Ties Germany
U.S. WNT Ties Germany. The match between the top two teams in the current FIFA Women’s World Rankings lived up to the hype as the #1 U.S. Women’s National Team played #2 Germany to a 1-1 draw in front of a sellout crowd of 19,522 at Toyota Park on the Fan Tribute Tour. The lone goal for […]
U-17 MNT To Argentina
U-17 MNT To Argentina. U.S. Under-17 Men’s National Team head coach Richie Williams has named a 20-player roster for the team’s trip to Argentina from Oct. 21-27 for the Four-Nations Tournament and a pair of international friendlies against Uruguay and Paraguay. Sixteen of the 20 players on the roster participated in the AGS Cup in […]
U.S. U-17 WNT World Cup
U.S. U-17 WNT World Cup. Goalkeepers (3): Jane Campbell (Concorde Fire South; Kennesaw, Ga.), Cassie Miller (Sereno FC; Cave Creek, Ariz.), Morgan Stearns (McLean MPS Power; San Antonio, Texas). Defenders (7): Brittany Basinger (FC Virginia; Purcellville, Va.), Maddie Bau… Subscribe to Southern Soccer Scene to get all the news in your mailbox!
Pia’s Last Day On The Job
Pia’s Last Day On The Job. Pia Sundhage had three games to say her good-byes as U.S. WNT head coach after the team returned from London with Olympic gold medals. All three turned out to be wins, closing out her five-year record as the U.S. coach at 91-6-10. It began in an 8-0 rout of […]
An Appropriate Gift To Pia
An Appropriate Gift To Pia. The U.S. women’s national team presented outgoing U.S. coach Pia Sundhage with the gift of a brand new Taylor guitar, which the “Singing Swede” quickly put to good use with a locker room chorus of Elvis Pressley’s “Jail House Rock.” All of the players from the 2012 Olympic team signed […]
Montoya Picks U17 Squad
Montoya Picks U17 Squad. U.S. Under-17 WNT head coach Albertin Montoya named his 21-player roster for the 2012 FIOFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup in Azerbaijan, Sept. 22-Oct. 13. The core of the team has risen through the ranks together in the U.S. youth national teams, starting at the U.S. U-14 Identification Camp in 2009. Montoya […]