Rivalry Week Crowds Major League Soccer scheduled a weekend of early season games between teams with special rivalry attractions. Nine games averaged 23,140, the highest weekly average this season. Portland vs. Seattle attracted 40,150, which was the Sounders’ seventh biggest crowd ever. The Canadian matchup in Montreal between the Impact and Toronto FC drew 37,896. […]
National
Cousins The Youngest On U.S. Under-20 Team
Lynchburg’s Katie Cousins, a 1996 Virginia ODP player, was selected to the U.S. Under-20 Women’s National Team’s trip to the 12 Nations Tournament in La Manga, Spain, in early March. Cousins, is a 16-year-old who plays club soccer for the Richmond Kickers U17 Girls Elite Team. She played the second half in the USA’s 1-1 […]
Gold Cup Games coming to Southeast
Randy Waldrum whose 14 seasons as head women’s soccer coach at the University of Notre Dame have featured a pair of NCAA Championships and three other NCAA runner-up finishes, has signed a multi-year contract extension to continue as the Irish head coach. Waldrum is also currently the U.S. Under-23 Women’s National Team head coach…..Three-time Olympic […]
National League Adds 14s
The US Youth Soccer National League has added the Under-14 Boys and Girls age groups for the 2013-2014 season. Like the current U-15 through U18 age groups, the U-14s will consist of 16 teams divided into two divisions, with each team playing a round robin schedule against the other seven teams in their division.
N.C. Girls Prep Top Ten
NCHSAA Class AAAA 1. Hough, 2. Green Hope, 3. Lake Norman, 4. Millbrook, 5. Myers Park, 6. South Mecklenburg, 7. Povidence, 8. Sun Valley, 9. Leesville Road, 10. Grimsley. NCHSAA Class AAA 1. Cardinal Gibbons, 2. Marvin Ridge, 3. Chapel Hill, 4. St. Stephens, 5. West Rowan, 6. Jacksonville, 7. Wilson Hunt, 8. Weddington, 9. […]
Orlando Adds Major Investor
ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando City SC announced on Monday that Brazilian native Flávio Augusto da Silva has made a significant investment and future commitment to the Orlando City franchise. The investment will be used for the club’s share of a private/publicly funded multi-purpose soccer stadium in downtown Orlando and future acquisition of an MLS franchise. “Every […]
Carolina Challenge Cup Day One
Houston Dynamo vs. Chicago Fire On an unusually cold evening in Charleston, MLS team’s the Chicago Fire played the Houston Dynamo in an Eastern Conference preseason matchup at the 10th annual Carolina Challenge Cup. The opening game of the tournament was action packed as the Fire came up with the win, defeating the Dynamo 3-2. The […]
U.S. Completes Sweep Of Scotland
Four games into his new job as U.S. Women’s National Team Coach, Tom Sermanni is 2-0 with both victories coming against the national team of the country oif his birth. The U.S. posted its second win over Scotland over a four-day span of time, handing the Scots a 3-1 loss at LP Field in Nashville […]
What Soccer People Are Saying!
“Once I realized I wouldn’t want to drive over any bridge that I designed, I knew that coaching is where I should be.” Georgetown men’s head coach Brian Weise, who earned his undergraduate degree in Engineering. (NSCAA.com) ••••••• “In a locker room where the offensive egos of players are struggling to live, the arrival of […]
Keegan, MarcantelNSCAA Prep POW
Will Keegan, a junior midfielder at Pensacola Catholic High School (Pensacola, Fla.) and Laura Marcantel, a senior forward at St. Joseph’s Academy (Baton Rouge, La.) were selected of Feb. 6 as the NSCAA National High School Players of the Week. Keegan lead Pensacola Catholic to the District 1-2A championship with a goal and two assists […]