Category: Youth Soccer Reporter

The Honolulu Soccer Club Bulls, the only Hawaii team to win a U.S. Youth Soccer national championship, swept the under-17 to under-19 boys titles at the Hawaii State Cup at the Waipio Soccer Complex. For all the under-14 to under-19 boys and girls winners …

Another national girls league is being launched for the 2009-10 season. The Elite Clubs National League will feature 40 clubs competing in a 12-game season in the U-15 to U-17 age groups. For a look at who’s in and not in …

Blau Weiss Gottschee knocked off the New York Red Bulls, 4-1, in U.S. Soccer Development Academy U-15/16 action, ending the Red Bulls’ undefeated streak at 16 games (13-0-3). They were the last unbeaten team in either of the U.S. Soccer Development Academy age groups.

Lower Merion Velez won the US Youth Soccer National League under-17 boys championship when it beat Eastern Pennsylvania rival YMS Xplosion, 2-0, in a makeup game.

The Region II ’94 ODP all-stars won the fifth-place game at the 32-team Trofeo Franco Gallini in Pordenone, Italy, by beating Iran on penalty kicks. For more on the U.S. results at Trofeo Franco Gallini and the Region II roster …

U.S. under-20 women’s national team coach Jillian Ellis will bring 24 players to a training camp beginning Saturday at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif.

The Dallas Texans Red made history when they became the first club to win three titles in the same year at the Dr. Pepper Dallas Cup, capturing the U-19, U-14 and U-13 titles at this year’s 30th edition of the tournament. The surprise was the Santa Clara (Calif.) Sporting’s run to the championship in the U-15 division.

The USA will put its perfect record of having qualified for every FIFA U-17 World Cup since the tournament’s inception in 1985 on the line when it faces Cuba, Canada and Honduras at the 2009 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, beginning Tuesday in Tijuana, Mexico, but the Americans will be without their most heralded player, 15-year-old midfielder Charles Renken, who is again sidelined with a knee injury.

The New York Red Bulls sent two teams to the Mediterranean International Cup in Spain, where they both reached the second round. The U-14s went unbeaten, going 4-0-1, while the U-15s, playing up in the U-16 division, advanced to the round of 16 before falling to Valencia.

Bellarmine Prep of Tacoma, Wash., has taken over as the No. 1 team in the NSCAA/adidas National Rankings. Cody of Wyoming moved up to No. 2. For the top 20 boys rankings …

St. Pius X of Atlanta remained the top-ranked team in the NSCAA/adidas National Ranking ahead of St. Joseph’s Academy of St. Louis and Sierra of California. For the top 20 girls rankings …

Of the 14 teams still alive in the Dr. Pepper Dallas Cup’s lower age groups after Friday action, 12 are American. The lone foreign teams to advance Friday in knockout action were Mexico’s Monterrey in the U-17 age group and Canada’s Ajax Gunners in the U-16 division. The 12 American teams consist of eight teams from California, three from Texas and one from Illinois. For all the results in the knockout phase in all seven age groups …

The D.C. United Academy U-16 team fell to Real Madrid, 1-0, in the recent Tiffany Trophy Cup.

The U.S. under-15 girls national team coach Mike Dickey called in 24 players for a training camp that begins Saturday at Stanford University. All but one of the players was born in 1994. For the complete roster …

The U.S. Soccer Development Academy has added five teams — California Development Academy (Sacramento, Calif.), Houston Dynamo (Houston, Texas), Kansas City Wizards Juniors (Kansas City, Mo.), McLean Youth Soccer (McLean, Va.) and NJSA 04 (Holmdel, N.J.) — for the 2009-10 season, bringing the number of clubs in the national program to 79.

The sensation of the 2009 Dr. Pepper Dallas Cup XXX Super Group has been the Vancouver Whitecaps FC Residency, the Canadian club’s equivalent to the U.S. Soccer Development Academy program. The Whitecaps, who have drawn players from across Canada, Jamaica and the USA, reached Sunday’s final in the Super Group with a 2-0 victory over Germany’s Eintracht Frankfurt on Friday.

The New York Red Bulls are the hottest team in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy’s Under-15/16 age group. Their 12-0-3 record makes them only undefeated team left out of the 148 teams participating in the 2008-09 Academy.

The Dallas Texans Red and Andromeda will be in action Sunday in Dr. Pepper Dallas Cup Super Group play on the Opening Day slate at Pizza Hut Park.

Gale Abossoumonde and Amobi Okugo, members of the U.S. U-20 team that recently qualified for the 2009 U-20 World Cup, are among the 26 players U.S. under-18 boys national national team coach Mike Matkovich called in for the camp that begins April 18 at The Home Depot Center.

The U.S. under-17 boys national team rounded out their schedule of international friendlies in Buenos Aires with a 3-1 loss to Uruguay. Sebastian Lleget, recently called for the runup to Concacaf qualifying, scored the lone goal for the USA, which finished with a 1-2 record against South American teams.

The Region III ODP girls 1994 team won its first three games at the U.S. Youth Soccer ODP 1994 Girls International Tournament in San Jose, Costa Rica.