Region III Hosts. US Youth Soccer has announced that Edmond, Okla., and Oklahoma Soccer Association will host the 2013 US Youth Soccer Region III (South) Championships as part of the US Youth Soccer National Championship Series. The games will take place at the ESC Complex in Edmond, Okla. The event is scheduled for June 20-27.
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NSCAA Awards To Be Presidented at Annual Banquet
NSCAA Awards To Be Presidented at Annual Banquet. The National Soccer Coaches Association of America will honor three individuals at the Friday night Awards Banquet during the NSCAA convention with Long Term Service Awards. For his long term service to youth soccer, NSCAA Hall of Famer Bob Gansler has been named the recipient of the […]
Limited TV Coverage
Limited TV Coverage. It is unlikely that there will be television coverage of away U.S. Men’s National Team Hexagonal World Cup Games. Each home federation has the rights to work their own television deals. Traffic Sports, which had the original rights, has sold those to beinSport, a cable company not available on many U.S. cable […]
Youth Soccer Briefs From Across The USA
Youth Soccer Briefs From Across The USA. Volunteer Of Year Four regional Volunteer of the Year winners are candidates for the US Youth Soccer National Volunteer of the Year awards. Delaware Soccer’s Melody McNulty of Newark, Del., is the Region I winner, while Minnesota Soccer’s Abdirizak Said (St. Paul, Minn.) is the Region II winner. […]
2012 NSCAA/Continental Tire All-America Collegiate Teams
2012 NSCAA/Continental Tire All-America Collegiate Teams. Eight players are earning their second NSCAA/Continental Tire NCAA Men’s Division I All-America honors. They include Connecticut’s Andre Blake and Carlos Alvarez, Akron’s Scott Caldwell, Coastal Carolina’s Ashton Bennett, Furman’s Walker Zimmerman, Sacred Heart’s Marcello Castro, New Mexico’s Kyle Venter, and Maryland’s John Stertzer . Additionally, this year’s First […]
Referee The Game Like Willy Wonka!
Referee The Game Like Willy Wonka!. Officiating professional soccer is definitely not for the faint of heart. This is not surprising as people’s livelihoods are based on the results. Officiating youth soccer is sometimes not for the faint-hearted either. The majority of youth soccer referees quit within their first two years with verbal abuse by […]
Soccer Mom Arrested For Embezzlement
May Have Stolen As Much As $92,000 Cynthia Ann Mangrum, 38, was a soccer mom who volunteered in several leadership positions with the Fairview Soccer Association. One of these positions was that of association treasurer. Mangrum was arrested in early December and charged with stealing as much as $92,000 from the local soccer organization over […]
what Soccer People Are Saying!
“It definitely wasn’t my best half. I certainly didn’t play well, but I didn’t think I was the worst player on the field.” USA’s Landon Donovan, speaking about being subbed out of the game at halftime against Jamaica. (MLSSoccer.com) ••••••• “He tried to play on, play through it and Chara commits four fouls in the […]
WNT To Host Scotland
WNT To Host Scotland. The first two matches for the U.S. Women’s National Team under new head coach Tom Sermanni will be played in Jacksonville, FL and in Nashville, TN. The game in Jacksonville at EverBank Field is set for Feb. 9, followed by the game at LP Field in Nashville on Feb. 13. Sermanni […]
News From The NSCAA
News From The NSCAA. Scholar All-America POY Margaret Purce (Our Lady of Good Counsel HS/Olney,MD) and Brandon Hudik (Bordentown Regional HS, NJ) have been selected as the 2012 NSCAA Scholar All-Amrica Player of the Year for girls and boys, respectively. Purce is a three-time NSCAA All-America selection. She closed out one of the most-decorated careers […]