Nine of the players on U.S. Soccer’s All-Time Women’s National Team Best XI were members of the 1999 FIFA World Cup championship team. The Best XI was released as the Federation wraps up the celebration of its Centennial anniversary in 2013. The Women’s Best XI features two unanimous ballot selections in defender Joy Biefeld (Fawcett) […]
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French Names U.S. Roster For CONCACAF U20 Women’s Championship
U.S. Under-20 Women’s National Team head coach Michelle French has named the 20-player roster for the 2014 CONCACAF Women’s U-20 Championship, to be held from Jan. 9-19 in George Town, Cayman Islands. The roster consists of 18 collegiate players, one professional and one player still in high school. The lone professional player is forward […]
Ready, Set, Go For Brazil ’04
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. […]
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! […]
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 […]
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, […]
Dunn, Mullins Hermann Finalists One More Time
Both 2012 MAC Hermann winners have been named 2013 finalists for the award after their senior seasons[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]. Maryland senior forward Patrick Mullins (New Orleans, La.) and North Carolina senior midfielder Crystal Dunn (Rockville Centre, N.Y.) are under consideration for back-to-back national Player of the Year honors. The other men’s finalists are Notre Dame senior […]
Camels Hire Horne
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Campbell University, a member of the Big South Conference, has hired Stuart Horne as the new women’s head soccer coach. Horne comes to Buies Creek from Elon University, where he was the women’s Associate Head Coach. He has been a member of the Elon staff for the past nine seasons. [/show_to][hide_from accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Your […]