Jeff Tipping is the Palm Beach Soccer Academy (Fla.) Technical Director and former NSCAA Director of Education and Coaching Development. Tipping, who is a native of Liverpool, wrote the following assessment of a Barclay’s U-18 Premier game this fall between Liverpool FC and Southhampton at the Liverpool Training Ground. The report was made as a […]
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Something More Important Than Talent
Parents ask me all the time if I think their child has what it takes to play at the college or professional level. They are asking if I think their kid has enough talent. My reply: “How much are your kids willing to suffer?” The answer to that simple question will go a long way […]
RailHawks Championship-Like Season
Clarke Will Return To Coach In 2014 If you were at the final Carolina RailHawks game that closed out the 2013 NASL season it was much like a movie that you have seen before. The RailHawks drew a big home crowd at WakeMed Park, 6,015. They fell behind 1-0 to the San Antonio Scorpions, but […]
Wake’s Bledsoe Makes All-America……Stengel Left Off List
When the NSCAA Division I women’s All-America list was announced there was a familiar name missing. She didn’t play the last nine games of the season, but one would have thought she might have done enough in the first 16 to earn her fourth All-America honor. But Wake Forest senior Katie Stengel was not on […]
Trio Inducted Into USL Hall Of Fame
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Charlotte Lady Eagles President Pat Stewart (Builder) was honored by HOF induction at the USL Hall of Fame banquet during Stewart and former Hampton Roads Piranhas star Mercy Akide-Udoh (Player) were inducted into the USL Women’s Hall of Fame. Stewart has been with the Eagles since 2002. The lone inductee into the USL […]
The Houston Mustangs Completes Unbeaten Season
Select An Experienced, Reputable Sports Tour Operator TC Roberson, Marvin Ridge, Salisbury and Wallace Rose Hill came away with NCHSAA boys state soccer championships with finals held at Dail Soccer Field on the campus of N.C. State University. Class 4-A Champions Cam Wood finished a header in the 66th minute of play to give Asheville […]
Eagles Soar To 15th State Title
Fayetteville Academy won its 15th boys state private school state soccer championship, while Grace Christian School won its first. High Point Wesleyan and Greensboro Day were expected to meet each other for the NCISAA 3-A title, but both were eliminated earlier in the playoffs. North Raleigh Christian the #5 seed, took the home that championship […]
NPSL’s Gate City FC Calls Greensboro Home
The league they play in may have been under a number of different names and at different levels over the years, but the constant soccer franchise in Greensboro has been the Carolina Dynamo. This summer there will be another team in town. Ga[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]te City FC will launch this coming spring and will compete in […]
Sounders Coming To ’14 Challenge
Dynamo, DC United To Return Major League Soccer’s Seattle Sounders FC will make a first appearance in the 11th annual Carolina Challenge Cup, Feb. 22-March 1, 2014. The Sounders will be joined by current U.S. Open Cup champions D.C. United, the Houston Dynamo from MLS and the USL PRO’s Charleston Battery. [show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Houston eliminated […]
Congree Rapids SA Receives US Soccer Foundation Grant
The Congaree Rapid Soccer Association (CRSA) has received a grant from the U.S. Soccer Foundation to support the development of soccer fields at the History Columbia Speedway in Cayce[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]. CRSA has secured a land lease with the Historic Columbia Speedway this fall to begin developing a 4-6 soccer facility with Bermuda grass, a canteen […]