Qualification for the 2014 FIFA World Cup has been completed.The USA will be there in Brazil next summer. The draw has been made.The U.S. is in a group with Germany, Portugal and Ghana.No easy draw, but it is what it is. One should not expect an easy draw in the world’s biggest championship! The U.S. […]
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Cosmos Win Again…..Really!
“In My Opinion……….” The New York Cosmos would like to tell you it had been 30 years since their last NASL Soccer Bowl championship. Don’t believe them. They will say the 2013 title won in Atlanta was the continuation of the legacy of Pele, Franz Beckbauer, Carlos Alberto, Giorgio Chinaglia, Johan Neeskens and company. Hardly! […]
Are you ready for Soccer’s Biggest Party?
The annual National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) convention is headed back to Philadelphia in 2014. The convention will be held in the City of Brotherly Love from January 15-19 in the Pennsylvania Convention Center. This marks the 10th time since 1972 that Philadelphia has played host to the NSCAA convention. Billed as “The […]
U. S. Women vs. Canada
The U.S. Women will host Canada in Frisco, Texas on January 31. The international friendly matches the top two teams in CONCACAF[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]. Canada will host the FIOFA Women’s World Cup in 2015. The game is scheduled for a 9:00 pm kickoff on the East Coast and will be televised on FOX Sports 1. This […]
U.S. Men Play South Korea
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] First match scheduled to kick off the 2014 World Cup year for the U.S. is scheduled for Feb. 1 in Carson, Calif. The U.S. will host the Korea Republic with kickoff scheduled for 5:00 pm ET. The game will be televised, but details of that broadcast have not been announced. The game with […]
NCAA Announces Championship Venues
Florida To Host Three D-I Women’s College Cups The NCAA has announced dates and venues for its national soccer championship weekends for the next four years. The Division I men and women will continue to play their championships on back-to-back weekends in different cities. Div[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]ision II and Division III have been playing both the […]
MLS All-Stars To Play Bayern Munich In 2014
Major League Soccer has announced that the opponent at the 2014 MLS All-Star Game in Portland, Ore, will be German Bundesliga giant Bayern Munich[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]. The game, set for August 6, marks the 11th time in the event’s 19-year history that an international club will take on the All-Stars. However, Bayern is the first German […]
Encouraging Young Players To Dribble!
When is too much of a good thing too much? That is a question that can be applied to a lot of things. It certainly can be applied to dribbling in soccer. Dribbling is a critical soccer skill, and should be part of player training from an early age. Players learn to keep position of […]
UCLA Took The Most Challenging Road To Title
First Division I Women’s Soccer Title For Bruins Before becoming the women’s head coach at UCLA last summer, Amanada Cromwell spent 14 seasons at the University of Central Florida. There, her UCF teams won five tournaments and eight regular season championships. UCF went to the NCAAs 11 of those 14 seasons. But those teams never […]
Men’s D-I National Title Game Was An All-ACC Affair
Two schools who are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference played for the 2014 NCAA Division I College Cup championship. Two schools in the same conference who are passing by each other going in different directions. One, the Maryland Terrapins, were a charter member of the ACC, going back to the year 1953. The other, […]