Category: Youth Soccer Reporter

Sereno White of Arizona and Aztecs FC Premier won the under-15 and under-14 boys divisions, respectively, at the 2008 Surf Thanksgiving Tournament in the San Diego area. For the results of the finals …

England’s Manchester United is teaming up with the Dallas Texans, the most successful club in U.S. Youth Soccer history and ranked the No. 1 boys club by Soccer America in 2008, to develop training programs for top Texans players.

Fox Soccer Channel will air the the U.S. under-17 boys national team’s Red squad in action against Brazil’s U-17s at 2:30 p.m. ET (11:30 a.m. PT) on the first day of the 2008 Nike International Friendlies, which are being held in conjunction with the U.S. Soccer Development Academy Winter Showcase at the Lancaster (Calif.) National Soccer Center.

Parity reigned at the U.S. Youth Soccer ODP Boys Thanksgiving Interregional held at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena, Vista, Fla. All 10 teams competing at the annual event won at least one game. For all the results and goal scorers …

U.S. under-15 boys national team coach Jim Barlow called up 32 players for a seven-day training camp that will take place Dec. 7-14 at U.S. Soccer’s National Training Center at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. The Princeton coach called in five players from Brad Friedel’s Premier Soccer Academies program in Ohio …

California teams won four titles at the Super Y-League’s North Americans Finals, which concluded Tuesday in Tampa. West Coast FC, Cal Odyssey and Diablo FC won boys titles, while Arsenal FC won its second girls title, winning the U-15 championship. On the boys side, New Jersey teams took one first place and four second places. Two teams affiliated with ’08 USL-1 clubs won girls titles. For a look at the finals …

English club Chelsea, which previously announced partnerships with North Carolina’s CASL and New Jersey’s Match Fit Academy, is expanding its U.S. super youth club network by teaming up with Los Angeles Futbol Club, the 2008 U.S. Soccer Development Academy U-17/18 runner-up.

The funeral of 10-year-old youth player Jonathan Manzo Chavez, killed in a car crash on his way home from a NorCal qualifying tournament in Manteca, Calif., on Nov. 15, drew 1,000 family and friends at St. Maria Goretti Catholic Church in South San Jose.

The U.S. under-20 national team concluded its eight-day camp in Madrid with a 2-0 loss to a team of players from Rayo Vallecano and Rayo Vallecano B, which play in the  third and fourth levels of Spanish soccer, respectively.

Brentwood (N.Y.) High School (boys) and New Jersey’s Pennington School (girls) are No. 1 in the final NSCAA/adidas High School fall national rankings.

Play began at the U.S. Youth Soccer Girls ODP Thanksgiving Interregionals in Coral Springs, Fla. It continues through Friday in the 1992, 1993 and 1994 age groups. For all the results and goal scorers …

Regional play was held across the South this fall in the U.S. Youth Soccer Region III Premier League. Teams played in three geographic regions. Big winners were Alabama’s BUSA Elite, the Dallas Texans and Sting with three age group championships. For all the Premier League champions …

The Bethesda (Md.) Soccer Club held its 25th annual Thanksgiving Tournament, one of the oldest and most prestigious late fall tournaments in the country. For the champions in the under-14 to under-19 boys and girls groups …

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 …

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.