The Virginia/DC Soccer Hall of Fame inducted the class of 2013 at the annual HOF Dinner in Richmond on Feb. 1. Inducted were former William & Mary All-America and Major League Soccer veteran Steve Jolley in the Player Category, and Jim Ferguson, Steve Goff and Anne Thompson in the Meritorious Category. Ferguson and Thompson are […]
Archives for February 2013
U.S. Women Sweep Scotland
The U.S. Women’s National Team got 2013 off to a good start with a pair of international friendly victories over Scotland. The first was a 4-1 win in Jacksonville, FL, followed by a 3-1 win in Nashville, TN. The games were the first under the direction of new WNT coach Tom Sermanni, who incidentally is […]
Professional Briefs
Red Bulls Hire Petke The New York Red Bulls ended their search for a new head coach by hiring former player and assistant coach Mike Petke. Petke is the latest American to be named head coach of a Major League Soccer team after playing professionally in the league. He joins D.C. United’s Ben Olsen, New […]
U.S. Under-17 MNT Loses
The U.S. Under-17 Men’s National Team took on Nike’s The Chance Team in a domestic friendly at The Home Depot Center. Behind a first half brace by Bubakary Sonko, who was assisted by Development Academy product Brian Iloski on both goals, The Chance took a 2-0 lead into halftime. The U-17’s got on the score […]
U.S. Women Set To Meet Pia’s Sweden In Algarve Cup
The U.S. Women’s National team has had a lot of success at the Algarve Cup in Portugal. The Americans have won the tournament eight times. The tournament, which doesn’t attract a lot of attention in Portugal, usually attracts most of the top women’s national teams in the world. This year the U.S. WNT has been […]
2013 Major League Soccer SuperDraft
First Round 1. New England Revs – Andrew Ferrell (Louisville), D 2. Chivas USA – Carlos Alvarez (UConn), MF 3. Toronto FC – Kyle Bekker (Boston College), MF 4. Vancouver Whitecaps – Kekuta Manneh (Austin Aztec), F 5. Vancouver Whitecaps FC – Erik Hurtado (Santa Clara), F 6. Colorado Rapids – Deshorn Brown (Central Florida) […]
Florida Southern Hires Sniegoski
Ryan Sniegoski, an assistant coach at Old Dominion University the past eight years, has been hired as Florida Southern’s new head men’s soccer coach. The 2005 ODU grad is the fifth head coach in the 57-year history of the Florid Southern program. He was the Monarchs’ top assistant the last three years. “Ryan has been […]
Dream Lives On With the National Women’s Soccer League
Third Try At A League Launches This Spring Sometimes it takes a couple of tries before you get it right. Counts at hitting a moving tennis ball or hitting a stationary golf ball. It also counts in creating a successful women’s professional soccer league. The National Women’s Soccer League, which will begin play in April […]
FC Nashville, KSA Join Next Generation
Southern Soccer Academy, Atlantic Fire United Also In TAMPA, Fla. – FC Nashville was the first club announced by the United Soccer Leagues (USL) to be accepted into the Next Generation Series, an exciting, new youth soccer initiative undertaken by USL and IMG Academy, established to provide players, coaches and clubs the opportunity to take part […]
Brian Wiese ‘Engineered’ Hoyas’ 2012 Success
They Called Him ‘The Flying Bus’ At Dartmouth Brian Wiese could be building bridges instead of building winning soccer team. “Once I realized I wouldn’t want to drive over any bridge that I designed, I knew that coaching is where I should be,” Wiese said with a chuckle as he talked about his master’s of […]