Everything seemed to favor the Virginia Beach Piranhas when they lined up to play the Washington Spirit Reserves for the Northeastern Conference championship of the USL’s W-League. The Piranhas had the league’s best record at 10-1-1. They had the leagues top goal scorer in Shan Jones, who led the league with 11 goals. And six […]
Soccer in Virginia
Vet Cup Coming To Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach will be the host for the 2014 United States Adult Soccer Association’s Veteran Cup championships[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]. The tournament, which will begin a two-year run, will be played at the Hampton Road Soccer Complex, July 8-13, 2014. The 2013 Vet Cup completed a two-year run in Excondido, California. Over 2,200 players attended the tournament […]
Virginia Soccer
Virginia native Lindsey Vanderspiegel has been named the new VCU women’s head soccer coach. She joins VCU after two seasons as the head coach at Georgia Southern where she guided the Eagles to their first Southern Conference Tournament title and NCAA appearance last fall. She replaces co-head coaches Tiffany Roberts Sahaydak and Tim Sahaydak, who […]
D.C. United Playing From Cellar
Is Olsen On The Coaching Hot Seat? When D.C. United lost 2-1 to the next worst team in Major League Soccer in mid-June, Toronto FC, Ben Olsen’s club dropped even deeper into the league cellar. The Black & White let their most recent best chance at a victory slip away after taking an early 1-0 […]
Blumenthal’s Career One Of Producing Winners
To win one state soccer championship is a significant achievement in any high school coaching career. Twelve, an even dozen, is phenomenal! Only one program, and one coach, has ever put 12 state boys soccer championship trophies in the school trophy case. Blacksburg High School is the school and Shelley Blumenthal is the coach. The […]
Ground Breaking Held For Stadium
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Ground was broken on June 4 for the new One Loudoun development in Northern Virginia for a permanent home for the Virginia Calvary FC and Loudoun Hounds soccer and baseball teams. The naming rights for the 5,500-seat facility have been secured by Ric Edelman’s financial management company, and the stadium will be known […]
Virginia Soccer
University of Richmond standouts Emily Dale and goalkeeper Melissa Pacheco, which helped Fredericksburg win the first Commonwealth Cup, have re-signed for the 2013 W-League season with the Impact. Dale is a native of Middlesburg, Va…….Former Virginia Commonweath University defender Molly Allen signed a professional contract earlier this spring with LUV Graz in Austria’s OFB Women’s […]
Ngwenya A Boost Kickers Offense
Next Up D.C. United In Open Cup When the Richmond Kickers signed midfielder Joseph Ngwenya, they knew what he could do. He could score goals. And he’s done just that. After beating Icon FC from New Jersey 4-1 in the second round of the US Open Cup, the former Coastal Carolina University All-American had scored […]
El Salvador Calls Up D.C. Area Players
El Salvador has called five players, including four from the Washington-Baltimore area, for its Under-20 team for an upcoming trip to Chile. El Salvador is preparing for its first appearance in the FIFA U-20 World Cup next month in Turkey. Included was former U.S. U-18 Romilio Hernandez from the Baltimore Bays Chelsea, a University of […]
Piranhas Open 19th W-League Season With A Win
Through good times and not so good times, a constant in Tidewater Virginia soccer over the past 18 seasons has been the W-League Virginia Beach Piranhas. Make that 19 seasons, as the Piranhas, one of the W-League’s original franchises, opened their 2013 season with a 2-1 home opener victory over the Fredericksburg Impact. The Piranhas’ […]