CARSON, CA - Day 1 of the U14 Boys National Team camp here at Home Depot Center with the players taking part in intrasquad scrimmages on 75-yard long fields.
CARSON, CA – The U14 Boys National Team camp continued here Monday night as the squad split a pair of matches against area U15 club teams, with the squads turning in very different performances over the 2 games.
Carmel United’s Crossroads of America College Showcase had quickly become one of the premier college recruiting events on the Girls side of elite youth soccer. Dozens of D1 coaches were...
12-year old Emerson Hyndman played up 2 years at the U14 National ID camp and with the Region III ODP team. Now he's attracting interest from the pros. Read more about this talented youngster and the main influences in his young soccer life.
Tampa Bay standouts and identical twins Shelby and Sydney Payne recently returned home from the U15 Girls National Team camp in California. The girls are just starting the recruiting process but clearly have bright futures ahead. The girls and their parents...
In some ways, Matt Kassel’s progression as a standout American soccer player has mirrored the game’s development here in the United States. As a toddler he got a brief but intense exposure to the highest level of the game, watching with his parents...
Parents are a key ingredient to the American elite youth soccer scene, yet some seem bent on having an undue impact on the match and ruining the viewing experience for everyone around them.
Those words introduced me to a problem attitude within American elite youth soccer 5 years ago, and I’m not certain there has been any change, unless it has gotten worse.
I was covering the 2003 Dallas Cup and the 2nd unit of the U17 Men’s National Team...
Soccer does not explain the world, but it does have profound connections with culture and politics all over the world. From the “beautiful game” of Brazil, to the back alleys of Belfast, soccer – like religion – has power and influence that can be mind-boggling...
The midway point of the year’s final U14 Boys National Team camp saw a pair of spirited scrimmages against Southern California club teams (both more entertaining than Monday’s games) and a reminder of the strengths and weakness in this 1994 birth year squad. Grit, heart and technical ability are in fairly long supply with this version of Manny Schellscheidt’s squad. Flair and creativity...
The most ambitious players in American elite youth soccer have been aware for some time that the best developmental opportunities may not be so close to home. Players have been leaving home to live and train at the U17 MNT Residency program in Bradenton, Florida since the 1990s, while others have looked for professional development available overseas.
With hundreds of teams descending on Lancaster for Sunday play in the Cal-South State Cup, it was hard to pick out a couple of games to report on, but I was glad find a pair of U14 knockout round games that featured some talented soccer-playing teams. PJ Brown’s Arsenal side rode a strong defensive performance and an opportunistic goal from Cameron Souri to beat Aztecs FC and...
The midway point of the year’s final U14 Boys National Team camp saw a pair of spirited scrimmages against Southern California club teams (both more entertaining than Monday’s games) and a reminder of the strengths and weakness in this 1994 birth year squad. Grit, heart and technical ability are in fairly long supply with this version of Manny Schellscheidt’s squad. Flair and creativity...
The most ambitious players in American elite youth soccer have been aware for some time that the best developmental opportunities may not be so close to home. Players have been leaving home to live and train at the U17 MNT Residency program in Bradenton, Florida since the 1990s, while others have looked for professional development available overseas. 
With hundreds of teams descending on Lancaster for Sunday play in the Cal-South State Cup, it was hard to pick out a couple of games to report on, but I was glad find a pair of U14 knockout round games that featured some talented soccer-playing teams. PJ Brown’s Arsenal side rode a strong defensive performance and an opportunistic goal from Cameron Souri to beat Aztecs FC and...
