“Right now, you can’t really explain it, to be honest with you. It won’t sink in for a while.”
— Dom Wren, coach of Discoveries SC Green, the first team from South Carolina to win a title at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships, finishing with 19 goals in four games. For Wren and seven of his players, it was their second national title of the year. Northwestern High School was ranked No. 1 in the spring high school national rankings. (Rock Hill Herald News)
Led by University of Portland star Danielle Foxhoven‘s hat trick, Colorado Rush Nike captured its record ninth girls national title — one more than the Dallas Texans — and third back-to-back championship with a 4-2 overtime win over Eclipse Select in the U-19 final at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships.
The USA won the Copa Macae in Brazil with a 4-2 shootout win over Funorte of Brazil in Sunday’s final.
Awards were handed out to the most outstanding player and goalkeeper in each of the 12 divisions at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships …
Cal North was the only state association to have two teams take home titles at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships, which concluded Sunday in Lancaster, Mass. For the results of all the finals …
Discoveries SC Green became the first South Carolina team to win a title at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships in Lancaster, Mass., when it captured the U-18 boys crown. For the results of all the finals, which concluded Sunday …
All the weekend MLS results, including the defending champion Columbus Crew’s win that put it in first place in the Eastern Conference …
[MAKING A LIST] You have to go all the way to the late stages of group play at the 1994 World Cup to find a day when there were three soccer crowds in excess of 42,000 for games played in the United States on the same day as there were on Sunday. Sunday’s crowd of 79,156 for the USA-Mexico Gold Cup final was the largest of the day but ranks only third for the month of July. There have been 18 crowds greater than 25,000 — eight for the Gold Cup, six for the World Football Challenge, two for MLS games and two international exhibitions.
[USL-1] There is a three-way at the top of the standings in the USL First Division. Charleston beat Carolina, 2-1, to join Portland and Puerto Rico in first place. The Timbers have two games in hand on Charleston and four on Puerto Rico.
“We support our players interacting with fans, whether it is at clinics, charity events or by high-fiving their supporters in the stands while celebrating a goal. However, our players should never engage in conduct that can be interpreted as encouraging fans to come out of the stands and onto the field, regardless of the reason.”
— MLS Comissioner Don Garber on the league fining the Los Angeles Galaxy’s David Beckham $1,000 for confronting a fan at halftime of his team’s 2-2 tie against AC Milan in an exhibition game at the Home Depot Center on July 19.
“It was pouring down rain, like sideways rain, too.”
— Triangle United Gold’s McAmos Paye on the weather he woke up to Friday at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships in Lancaster, Mass. Triangle survived the bad weather and beat Javanon, 1-0, to move into Sunday’s final against CZ Elite in the under-17 boys division. (Raleigh News & Observer)
U.S. Club Soccer’s National Cup VIII Finals kick off Saturday with the first day of boys play at the Hampton Roads Soccer Complex. The National Cup VIII Finals (U-13 through U-17 teams) and National Collegiate Showcase (U-15 through U-17) will be held July 25-28 (boys) and July 31-Aug. 3 (girls).
Group play concluded Friday at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships. Here are all the girls results and goal scorers from Day 3 …
Group play concluded Friday at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships. Here are all the boys results and goal scorers from Day 3 …
The Colorado Rush Nike was only one of three defending girls champions to advance to the finals at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships in Lancaster, Mass. The Dallas Texans U-17 and U-16 teams both failed to advance out of their groups.
The finals are set for the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships in Lancaster, Mass. The under-14 and under-15 finals will be held Saturday and the other eight championships will take place Sunday morning. For all the matchups …
The blockbuster striker-swap between Barcelona and Inter Milan came closer to completion on Friday after Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who would head to Barcelona for Samuel Eto'o plus cash, agreed to terms with the Spanish club. "There are agreements in principle with the player and with Inter and the documents are being drawn up," Barcelona sporting director […]
After missing a number of chances to put the game way, Mexico capitalized on its final one during penalty kicks after a 1-1 tie with Costa Rica. Guillermo Ochoa came up with the big save on Costa Rica’s Froylan Ledezma, the substitute who scored the tying goal late in regulation stoppage time. Mexico’s Carlos Vela […]
The jury at Liverpool Crown Court found Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard not guilty of affray on Thursday. The court accepted Gerrard’s explanation that he acted in self-defense when he punched businessman Marcus McGee at the Lounge Inn bar on Dec. 29 in a dispute over music. Gerrard admitted throwing three punches but said only one […]
New U.S. players are taking turns in the spotlight. Defender Clarence Goodson, who scored the opening goal in the U.S.’s 2-0 win over Honduras on Thursday, represents the sixth American newbie to get his first goal during the tournament. The U.S. continued its pattern of spreading the goal-scoring wealth, as Goodson represents the 10th U.S. […]
Steve Davis suggests that the packed stadiums popping up all over America this summer show the depth and diversity of this country’s love for soccer. Davis writes: “I tell people all the time that there are plenty of soccer fans in this country, it’s just that only a relatively small percentage like MLS. But since […]
The U.S. Open Cup got a little testier this week with club executives exchanged barbs. It began when Seattle’s Adrian Hanauer expressed disappointment that the U.S. Soccer Federation chose RFK Stadium as the site for the Sept. 2 championship game between the Seattle Sounders and D.C. United. He also questioned the legitimacy of bid process […]
Landon Donovan remembers his first goal in MLS. It came in 2001 against U.S. teammate Tim Howard. “I think Richard Mulrooney played a long ball and I got behind their defense and I remember as I got closer to Timmy he kept backing up, which was a little strange,” Donovan, then playing for the San […]
The USA faces Mexico Gold Cup final on Sunday. The World Football Challenge — Chelsea, Inter Milan, AC Milan and Club America — resumes Friday. David Beckham’s next appearance with the Galaxy is in Kansas City on Saturday.
U.S. under-17 girls national team coach Kazbek Tambi called in 22 players to a training camp that begins Tuesday in Pearl River, N.Y.
