Silverbacks Offer New Logo Options. The Atlanta Silverbacks fans have an opportunity to have their voices heard on the selection of a new team logo. Four new logo designs have been selected and the Silverbacks are currently holding a “pick the logo” contest. Fans can go online at www.atlantasilver backs.com and cast their vote. Earlier […]
Archives for January 2013
RailHawks Preparing For 2013
NASL Announces Split Season Format The 2012 North American Soccer League season ended for the Carolina RailHawks in the semifinals of postseason play. That they were beaten on a two-game 5-4 aggregate by the eventual champion Tampa Bay Rowdies is small consolation. The RailHawks, who underwent changes in roster and head coach after the 2011 […]
UNC’s Lopez Going To MLS
UNC’s Lopez Going To MLS. North Carolina sophomore Mike Lopez has become the eighth Tar Heel to sign a Generation adidas contract with Major League Soccer. Lopez leaves UNC after two years in which he played 46 matches and helped the Tar Heels to their second national title during his freshman year in 2011. Lopez, […]
Taiwo Selected N.C. Player Of Year
Taiwo Selected N.C. Player Of Year. Cardinal Gibbons junior forward Ade Taiwo was named the 2012 North Carolina Soccer Coaches Association Player of the Year. Taiwo scored 11 goals with 11 assists in leading Cardinal Gibbons to the NCHSAA 3-A state c… Subscribe to Southern Soccer Scene to get all the news in your mailbox!
UNC’s Parlow Cone Named Thorns FC Head Coach
UNC’s Parlow Cone Named Thorns FC Head Coach. Cindy Parlow Cone has spent many afternoons in her adult life on the sidelines of UNC’s Fetzer Field, first as a player for the Tar Heels and then as an assistant coach. She played 158 times for the U.S. WNT, helped her team win the 1999 FIFA […]
Louisburg Runnerup For JUCO Title
Louisburg Runnerup For JUCO Title. One of the challenging aspects of coaching at the collegiate level is the demand of recruiting new players every year. It is difficult enough for four-year colleges and universities to “refresh” the program with an infusion of talented newcomers, but recruiting at the junior college level means over half your […]
Chicago, Houston, Vancouver All Set
10th Annual Carolina Challenge Cup The first few years you organize a week-long series of games it is called an “event.” If all goes well, and it continues after five years you have earned the right to call it a “premier event.” Ten years and still going, you call that a “tradition.” Such is the […]
SCHSSCA Winter Coaching Clinic Set For Jan. 25-26
SCHSSCA Winter Coaching Clinic Set For Jan. 25-26. The 17th Annual Winter Clinic, sponsored by the South Carolina High School Soccer Coaches Association, will be held January 25-26, 2013 at the Clarion Town House Hotel and USC Field House in Columbia. Featured clinician will be Peter Broadley, a member of the National Soccer Coaches Association […]
Opara To Kansas City
Opara To Kansas City. Sporting Kansas City acquired defender Ike Opara, Durham, NC, native who played collegiate soccer at Wake Forest, in exchange for KC’s second round pick in the 2013 MLS SuperDraft. The Earthquakes took Opara third overall in the 2010 MLS SuperDraft, but injuries and inconsistencies have marred his time in MLS. The […]
Hans Hobson Is Named New TSSA Executive Director
Hans Hobson Is Named New TSSA Executive Director. The Bord of Directors of the Tennessee State Soccer Association has hired Hans Hobson as the new TSSA Executive Director, effective Jan. 1, 2013. Hobson has been the Girls Director of Coaching for the Tennessee Soccer Club since July 1, 2012. Prior to that, he was Director […]