Monthly Archives: January 1999

Beginning this month, Tony DiCicco will take 26 women's national team players into a full-time residency camp to prepare for the 1999 Women's World Cup. He will eventually choose 20 players for the final roster. We want to know which 20 players YOU think should represent the U.S. in the 1999 Women's World Cup.

The Tampa Bay Mutiny and the Kansas City Wizards have exchanged young forwards, as “Sneaky” Pete Marino heads south to Florida while Brian Loftin returns home to the midwest. Marino, 25, has 48 career MLS points (46 of which were earned during the 1996 and 1997 seasons with the Columbus Crew) and is expected to […]

For the first time ever, U.S. Soccer will put the U-17 Boys’ National Team in a full-time residency program when the team begins training at the Bollettieri Sports Academy in Bradenton, Fla., on Jan. 17, 1999. The full-time residency is in preparation for CONCACAF U-17 qualifying in Jamaica in February, and for the 1999 FIFA […]

Eric Wynalda and Tony Meola will be added to the U.S. national team roster for training camp Jan. 9-19 in Orlando, Fla., U.S. head coach Bruce Arena said. The pair will join the 26-man roster that was announced Dec. 17. Wynalda and Meola will be the only players in camp who are veterans of the […]

This week, the U.S. men’s U-20 national team kicks off the final, three-month journey that will eventually end in Nigeria and the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship. Coach Sigi Schmid has gathered a squad of 29 players at the ARCO Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. for a Jan. 4-19 training camp — the first […]

Following ongoing discussions concerning the 1999 Confederations Cup, FIFA has announced that Germany will replace World Cup champion France in the eight-team field. The tournament, now slated for July 24-Aug. 4, 1999 in Mexico City and Guadalajara, Mexico, pits the top teams in each of FIFA’s six confederations. The schedule change directly affects the United […]

U.S. women’s national team coach Tony DiCicco has named the final three players to his residency camp roster, bringing the total number to 26 players who will compete for a spot on the 1999 U.S. Women’s World Cup Team when the USA begins full-time training on Jan. 4 outside of Orlando, Fla. DiCicco named goalkeeper […]

1998 MLS Rookie of the Year Ben Olsen has signed a five-year contract with MLS that will keep him with D.C. United through 2003. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Olsen will no longer be a member of Project-40. Thus, the 21-year-old midfielder will count against the league’s 20-man roster limit. “It’s […]