For awhile now, most of the talk about bringing Major League Soccer back to Florida was focused on Central Florida. It’s no secret that Orlando City, now playing in the USL PRO league, has its sights on a MLS franchise. Hopes that they would be franchise #20 were dashed when it was announced that would […]
Soccer in Florida
Huge Crowd Sees Orlando City Play Fluminese FC
Orlando City fell to Brazil’s Fluminese FC 4-3, but it was quite a show in front of 11,127 fans at the Florida Citrus Bowl in an international friendly club match[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]. It was a record crowd for a Orlando City game, surpassing the old mark oof 10,889 back in 2011 for a game against English […]
Florida Soccer
VSI Tampa Bay FC has signed former American college and professional midfielder Stacy Bishop for the 2013 W-League season. Bishop, a native of the Tampa area, last played for the Atlanta Beat of Women’s Professional Soccer. She played for Land O’Lakes HS and led her team to the state championship as a senior. She still […]
NSCAA’s Summer Sympositum
Central Florida To Host Inaugural Event In August The National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s annual convention is the biggest soccer coaches gathering in the United States. Make that the largest in the world. It is always in January and the weather is usually cold. This past convention was in Indianapolis, and next year it […]
Next MLS Team Goes To NY
It wasn’t the news Orlando City Lions officials wanted to hear, but it wasn’t altogether a surprise. Major League Soccer has announced a partnership between Manchester City Football Club and MLB’s New York Yankees, which has acquired the League’s 20th expansion club which will take the field in 2015. Orlando had actively sought to bring […]
Clearwater Native Back ‘Home’ In Sunshine State
Jeff Attinella is a Florida guy, who thought he might spend the 2003 Major League Soccer season in Salt Lake City. But he’s back in the Sunshine State, on loan from Real Salt Lake for the NASL season with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. A year ago the 24-year old Clearwater native, lined up in goal […]
Strikers, Rowdies To Host MLS In Open Cup
The Fort Lauderdale Strikers and Tampa Bay Rowdies have earned games against Major Soccer League clubs in the third round of the 2013 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. The Strikers won a dramatic penalty shootout (7-6) after a 1-1 draw with Laredo Heat, who played much of the second half and extra time a man […]
Florida Soccer
Lou Cioffi, the Knights’ outstanding goalkeeper from 1978-79, is one of five University of Central Florida athletes who have been selected for induction into the UCF Athletics Hall of Fame. Cioffi had 11 career saves, with six shutouts and a career 1.54 goals allowed average. He was the Defensive MVP in 1979 when the Knights […]
Eckerd Player Killed By Drunk Driver
Former Melbourne HS soccer star Rachel Price (see photo Florida Notes) a freshman member of Eckerd College’s women’s soccer team, was killed, along with a friend, in a fiery crash when struck by a truck driven by a drunk driver. The accident occured on U.S. Highway 192 on February 28 as Price, who was killed […]
Jozy’s Goals Record Not A Surprise
Discovered By Schulz In Boca Raton Park Jozy Alltidore recently broke Clint Dempsey’s single season record of 23 goals for an American playing in a European League. He scored his 24th of the season for his Dutch club AZ Alkmaar in a 2-1 loss to AKC Waalwikk. He’s been in Europe since 2008 and AZ […]