Freshman Crowder Leading The Georgia Offense It had never happened before in the history of the women’s soccer program at the University of Georgia. An eight-game winning streak! It began in the season’s second game, rebounding from a 2-0 opening loss to Texas. Eight straight ran the record to 8-1-0. Freshman Marion Crowder (Madison, Miss.) […]
Soccer in Georgia
Darton Gets Win When Opponent Was Short On Players
Darton State College is ranked #5 nationally among NJCAA (junior college) women’s teams with a 9-1 overall record[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]. Head coach Ken Veilands recently reached a coaching milestone in a very unusual route. His 224th coaching victory came on a forfeit! Andrews College only brought seven players to play Darton, and when one went down […]
A New Kind Of Bowl Game For Atlanta
Like the Rose Bowl, the Orange Bowl and Super Bowl, the NASL Soccer Bowl has a history. It is a football game. Just not one of the traditional holiday football affairs. The 2013 NASL Soccer Bowl will be played on Nov. 9 in Atlanta. One of the two finalists will be the hometown Atlanta Silverbacks, […]
Strikers Edge Silverbacks
RailHawks Take Lead In Second Half Of Season The Atlanta Silverbacks closed out the first half of the North American Soccer League season on the last weekend of play to earn the spring championship. That gave the Silverbacks a spot in the league championship game, regardless of how they play in the fall half of […]
Kennesaw’s Nelson Led U.S. To Deaflympic Gold
SOFIA, Bulgaria-Kennesaw State’s rising junior Julia Nelson came away with a gold medal in the 2013 Deaflympics, scoring seven goals over the course of the tournament. The U.S. women’s soccer team used a strong, cohesive attack to control the entire gold-medal match against the Russian Federation, winning its third straight Deaflympic gold medal, 2-1, at […]
Georgia Teams Pick Up Hardware At US Youth Nationals
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Eight teams from Georgia advanced to the US Youth Soccer National Championships in Overland Park, KS, and the U19 NASA girls took home a national championship, beating SoCal Blues-Dido , 2-1 in the title game in OT. The U13 boys United FA 00 Elite and U14 girls Tophat 17 Gold both won bronze […]
Georgia Soccer
The Atlanta Fire United Soccer Association has announced the hiring of Carlos Parra as the Girls Director of Coaching. Parra comes to Atlanta after serving as the Technical Director for Weston FC in Florida, where he originally was hired as the Boys Director of Coaching in 2005. Thi[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]s is his second time to be […]
Silverbacks Win Spring Title
Edge RailHawks With BigWin In Minnesota The Carolina RailHawks needed either a tie or a win in San Antonio to capture the NASL Spring Championship. They got neither. Instead they were shut out 2-0. The Atlanta Silverbacks needed to win on the road against Minnesota United FC and they needed to win big to overcome […]
Silverbacks Midfielder Plays For El Salvador
Richie Menjivar was born in California, grew up there played club soccer, and played Division I collegiate soccer for a couple of years at Evansville University. He played for the Purple Aces from 2008-2009 and closed out his college career at California-Bakersville. He was part of Eric Wynalda’s Cal FC that had a magical U.S. […]
Georgia Dome Host Record Crowd
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Atlanta’s Georgia Dome hosted a CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinal doubleheader before a crowd of 54,229, which was a new attendance record in the facility for soccer. Mexico advanced to the semifinals with a 1-0 victory over Trinidad & Tobago with a late second-half goal. Panama fell behind 1-0 to Cuba, but earned a […]