Category: Youth Soccer Reporter

The Chicago Magic, one of the big names in youth soccer, has been sold. Rampage Futbol LLC, owner of the Rockford Rampage professional indoor team, acquired the Magic from Hallmark Properties. As part of the club’s restructuring, former El Salvador and MLS star Raul Diaz Arce has been named the club’s academy director.

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.

Play continued Thursday at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships in Lancaster, Mass. Here are all the boys results and goal scorers from Day 2 …

Play continued Thursday at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships in Lancaster, Mass. Here are all the girls results and goal scorers from Day 2 …

Ralph Lundy, son of the longtime College of Charleston coach of the same name, scored four goals to lead Discoveries Soccer Club Green to an 8-1 win over East Fishkill Thunder Thursday that secured the South Carolina team a place in the under-18 boys final at the U.S. Youth National Championships in Lancaster, Mass. For all of Thursday’s boys highlights …

Play began Wednesday at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships in Lancaster, Mass. Here are all the girls results and goal scorers from Day 1 …

Play began Wednesday at the US Youth Soccer National Championships in Lancaster, Mass. Here are all the boys results and goal scorers from Day 1 …

The USA will be again represented at the Milk Cup in Northern Ireland, where it will face Denmark and Germany in group play in the under-18 boys Elite competition that begins on Monday.

Blau Weiss Gottschee, the oldest club in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy, and Manhattan Kickers FC have merged to form BW Gottschee NYC.

England’s Chelsea Football Club has partnered with a fifth U.S. youth club program, teaming up with Downtown United Soccer Club and its sister organization Gotham Girls, two of New York City’s leading youth organizations and school programs.

The opening game of the under-18 boys competition at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships lived up its to its billing Wednesday as Discoveries Soccer Club Green of South Carolina twice came back from a goal down and beat the Westside Metros Internationals of Oregon, 3-2, on a second-half goal by Uruguayan-born star Enzo Martinez. For more boys highlights from Lancaster, Mass., …

Coached by Shawn Medved, whose claim to fame as a player is that he scored the tying goal in D.C. United’s memorable comeback against the Los Angeles Galaxy to win the inaugural MLS Cup in 1996, the De Anza Force pulled the biggest upset on Day 1 of girls play at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships when the California team trounced the defending national champion Dallas Texans Red, 4-1, in under-16 play — with all four of its goals coming in the first 25 minutes. For more girls highlights …

[UNDER-16 GIRLS] For the second year in a row, the Dallas Texans Red Dallas and So Cal Blues finished 1-2 in the U.S. Youth Soccer National League and qualified for the National Championships.

[UNDER-15 GIRLS] None of last year’s under-14 national finalists qualified for the under-15 division at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships, but all six finalists have sent teams to the national stage.

[UNDER-14 GIRLS] Four of the country’s top girls programs — Scorpions of Massachusetts, CASL of North Carolina, Eclipse Select of Illinois and Mustang of Northern California — compete for the under-14 title at the U.S. Youth National Championships.

The annual U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships begin Wednesday in Lancaster, Mass. Forty-eight teams compete in 12 divisions (six boys and six girls age groups). Soccer America presents a look at the top teams and top players with Wednesday’s game schedules and complete team rosters …

[UNDER-19 BOYS] The Baltimore Casa Mia Bays, who won the U.S. Youth Soccer national title three years ago as under-16s and captured last year’s U.S. Soccer Development Academy under-17/18 national crown last year, open play Wednesday at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships in Lancaster, Mass.

[UNDER-18 BOYS] The under-18 boys division features two of the most heralded players in this fall’s college freshman class. For both Enzo Martinez (Discoveries SC and North Carolina) and Erik Hurtado (Westside Metros Internationals and Santa Clara), who will meet Wednesday, the road to stardom has been long and windy.

[UNDER-17 BOYS] Four of last year’s six finalists at the under-16 level return to the National Championships for the under-17 finals, though the teams that finished first and second — the Dallas Texans Red and Real So Cal Blue — are the two teams that aren’t back.

[UNDER-16 BOYS] The Dallas Texans Red, the 2009 National League U-16 champions, are the lone holdovers in the Larry Harmon Cup.

[UNDER-15 BOYS] The South Charlotte SA Gold and Grand Rapids Crew Juniors, who meet Wednesday on the first day of group play, return to the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships for the second year in a row.

[UNDER-14 BOYS] St. Louis Scott Gallagher, whose Busch and Gallagher teams have won 10 U.S. Youth Soccer boys championships but none at the under-14 level, and CASL Elite, the 2003 under-14 national championship, headline the field at the 2009 National Championships.