Category: Youth Soccer Reporter

The U.S. under-17 girls national team will hold its final training camp beginning Thursday at the PDA facilities in Zarephath, N.J.

The soccer hotbed missing from last year’s U.S. Soccer Development Academy was Dallas. Indeed, no Texas team took part in the inaugural season, but that has changed. The first games took place last weekend in the Central Conference’s Texas Division.

The U.S. U-17 boys national team swept matches at Southern California’s Nomads in the second of a series of stops at U.S. Soccer Development Academy clubs.

The move for clubs to merge and form super clubs is gaining momentum in Florida.

The 2009 National Cup VIII Regionals return to seven of the same locations as the 2008 event.  Once again, the Modesto, Calif., and Pittsgrove, N.J., regionals will be divided into separate weekends for boys and girls. For the 2009 regionals …

Sacramento Jesuit, which took over first in the NSCAA/adidas high school boys national rankings, has earned out-of-state wins over Portland (Ore.) Jesuit (2-0), Albuquerque (N.M.) La Cueva (3-1) and Albuquerque (N.M.) St. Pius (5-1). Last week’s No. 1 Kansas City Rockhurst lost in a shootout to area rival St. Thomas Aquinas before a crowd estimated to be more than 4,000. For the complete Top 25 …

The Pennington School, No. 1 in the NSCAA/adidas high school girls national rankings, improved to 5-0-0 with wins over Lawrenceville (5-0) and Montclair (2-0). For the complete Top 25 …

The Schulz Academy improved to 4-0-1 in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy’s U/15-16 age group with wins over the visiting Bridge FA and Virginia Rush. For all of last weekend’s results:

McDonogh School of Maryland moved into a tie with The Pennington School of New Jersey for the top spot in the NSCAA/adidas high school girls national rankings. For the complete Top 25 …

The Richmond Strikers and Schulz Academy both swept games in the U-17/18 and U/15-16 age groups in play on the second weekend of the 2008-09 U.S. Soccer Development Academy. For all the results …

U.S. under-14 boys national team head coach Manny Schellscheidt named 38 players who will travel to the U.S. Youth Soccer ODP Thanksgiving Interregional tournament Nov. 26-Dec. 1 in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Tuesday a voluntary recall of about 190,000 MacGregor and Mitre folding soccer goals following the death of a 20-month-old boy, who was strangled when his head and arm became entangled in the net of one of the recalled goals.

The U.S. under-17 boys national team opened a nine-city tour against U.S. Soccer Development Academy opponents with a 2-0 win (goals by Victor Pineda and Charles Renken) and 3-3 tie (two goals by Jack McInerney and one by Luis Gil) against Chivas USA youth teams in the U-15/16 and U-17/18 age groups.

The USA will meet France, Argentina and China in the first round of the Under-20 Women’s World Cup that begins Nov. 19 in Chile.

Kansas City’s Rockhurst High School remained No. 1 in the NSCAA/adidas high school boys national rankings. No. 2 Martin Luther King Jr.’s position was in jeopardy following Tuesday’s 2-1 loss to No. 24 Beacon School that ended a 43-game unbeaten streak. For the complete Top 25 …

Schulz Academy, which finished third in the 2007-08 U.S. Soccer Academy’s U-16 Age Group, opened the 2008-09 season with a 2-0 win over Birmingham United and 0-0 tie with Atlanta Fire United.

U.S. U-17 girls national team coach Kazbek Tambi will welcome 24 players on Friday as he works on cutting down his squad to 21 players for the inaugural Under-17 Girls World Cup being held Oct. 28-Nov. 16 in New Zealand. For the complete roster …

Surprise South American champion Colombia has called up three U.S.-based players and runner-up Brazil has brought in one player for training camps that begin this week to prepare for the Under-17 Girls World Cup being held later this fall in New Zealand.

Dylan Mencia drives two and a half hours each way from his home in Pennsylvania to practice with the New York Red Bulls academy team. The high school junior capped his his 2007-08 season with the Red Bulls by scoring in their 3-1 win over Inter Milan’s Serie A U-17 championship team.

Rockhurst is ranked No. 1 in the first NSCAA/adidas high school boys national rankings of the fall. The Missouri school got two goals from all-state midfielder Alex Sweetin in a 3-0 victory over Shawnee Mission West to open the 2008 season. For the complete Top 25 …

The Pennington School, the top-ranked team in the first NSCAA/adidas high school girls national rankings of the fall, traveled to Maryland, where it beat  St. John’s (D.C.), 6-2, and Bishop O’Connell (Va.), 4-1, at the McDonogh (Md.) Invitational. For the complete Top 25 …

U.S. Club Soccer has announced a sanctioning agreement with the Northern Illinois Soccer League, which currently serves over 12,000 players in 86 Chicago-area communities.