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SOCCER AMERICA profiles Florida State’s Becky Edwards, a member the U.S. national team competing at the Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Chile. She started in midfield for the Americans in their 3-0 win over France in their opening game on Wednesday. She’s a Philly girl through and through. Edwards was ecstatic about the Phillies’ World Series and loves the Jersey Shore.

Jonathan Manzo Chavez, 10, was on his way home from Santa Clara Sporting Club’s NorCal State Cup qualifier in Manteca, Calif., last Saturday when the mini-van his mother was driving was struck head-on by a car attempting to pass another car on Highway 84, a two-lane road. When rescue workers tried to take off Manzo’s Sporting green jersey and shorts and tend to his injuries, he pleaded, “Don’t cut them, don’t cut them, I have a game tomorrow.” Manzo later died of injuries suffered in the crash.

The Super Y-League’s North American Finals begin Friday with 136 American and Canadian youth teams competing in 10 boys and girls divisions at the Ed Radice Sports Complex in Tampa and Land O’Lakes Recreation Center in Land O’Lakes, Fla.

Arsenal FC, the Southern California team that produced U.S. national team captain Carlos Bocanegra, cleaned up in the 2008 CSL Premier League, winning two boys and one girls championship. The boys won the U-19 and U-16 divisions in the Southern California superleague, while the U-16 girls were the only team with a perfect record, finishing 11-0-0. For all the U-19, U-17 and U-16 boys and girls final standings …

The Soccer Organization of Charlottesville-Albemarle became the first club team from West Central Virginia to win a state championship when  it won the U-18 boys title at the Virginia Youth Soccer Association’s state tournament for boys and girls teams in the under-14 to under-18 divisions.

For the third year in a row, teams from the Michigan Hawks reached the finals of every Michigan State Youth Soccer Association girls division from under-14 to under-18.

The U.S. under-20 men’s national team took on some of Madrid’s top young talent. The Americans put three goals past Real Madrid C, but that total was matched by a 16-year-old Portuguese dubbed the new Cristiano Ronaldo, and the Madrid team won, 5-3. The next day, FC Dallas keeper Josh Lambo held off Atletico Madrid B and earned the U-20s a 0-0 tie.

Brentwood (N.Y.) High School claimed the No. 1 spot in the NSCAA/adidas High School Boys Rankings when last week’s No. 1, Sacramento Jesuit, fell to Davis in a shootout in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I semifinals. The Pennington School, whose season is finished, is the No. 1 team in the NSCAA/adidas High School Boys Rankings.

Two members of the U.S. national team that finished second at the Under-17 Women’s World Cup in New Zealand are headed to U.S. Youth Soccer ODP Girls Thanksgiving Interregional. Maddy Laddish will represent Region II in the 1992 division, while Morgan Brian is on the U.S. under-15 national team competing at the Interregional to be played at the North Community Park and Coral Glades High School Sportsplex in Coral Springs, Fla. Teams arrive Saturday for two days of training. The competition runs through next Friday. For all the 1992, 1993 and 1994 regional teams and U.S. under-15 national team …