ESPN released a survey recently indicating that soccer is now thesecondmost popular sport (behind Baseball) among 12 to 24 year old’s. The United States stands also in second place for adults playing soccer (24.3 million). 32% of households have at least one person playing soccer in a competitive league. With the best infrastructure in the world and millions of athletes…
Orlando City S.C. Pointing on becoming the Top Youth Development Program in the U.S.
US Soccer“We want to be the top academy in the country. We have a club commitment to develop players. We have the training facility, our academy is fully funded. We see that we have a lot of opportunities here.†Orlando City (currently consists of over 2000 players aged 4-19 years of age), wants to become the leader for homegrown player development.…
MLS Next: Creating the New “Homegrown” Professional Soccer Players
US SoccerThe MLS NEXT academy leagues began 2 weeks ago The newly formed academy program isÂinevitably focused on the future given that some of its participants will be as young as 10 years old. Homegrown soccer players and it’s happening right now, before our eyes. Many quality soccer players are being given opportunity to enter and play in this program, and…
The United Soccer Coaches 2021 Convention will be an Interactive Digital Event
US SoccerThe United Soccer Coaches digital convention is set for Jan. 11-15 The United Soccer Coaches last month announced that its 2021 convention will be an interactive digital convention. The convention was scheduled to be held south of LA in Anaheim, California. but the organization decided to cancel the actual event due to the COVID-19 pandemic and create a web-based version…
FIFA Has Made a Rule Change That Involves Directly Goalkeepers!
US SoccerFIFA has experimented over the winter a new rule to add to the laws of soccer and starting the new Summer/Fall soccer season these changes will go into effect: A goal kick: The ball is in play once it is kicked, and does not have to leave the penalty area, has created a faster and more dynamic/constructive restart to the…
MLS relegation: Major League Soccer will not budge, sparking FIFA President to take action.
US SoccerI hate to be crude and straight forward, but I personally find the MLS the most boring league that there is at a worldwide scale. First of all because a team ends up in the MLS not for merit, but because they bought themselves in. That however is not the boring part. Teams don’t relegate, so basically if you have…
There are development soccer coaches and then there are locusts
US Soccer, Youth SoccerI would start by going straight to the point and define clearly and completely the difference between the two breeds of coaches out there. When I state “Out There” I’m talking about the United States, reason: I’t pay-to-play and is seen just like a fresh crop of lettuce that yet has to be treated for insects and pests, in many…
Is a High School Soccer Program or Youth Soccer Club The Best Road to College?
US Soccer, Youth SoccerThe high school soccer vs Youth club soccer is something that has been around for years in the United States and it looks like this topic will remain fresh and never go away. I hear parents that state that high school soccer is very amateur and that youth club soccer is much more advanced. This general comment in many cases…
Who “Really are the Best” youth soccer teams in Florida, the US and Worldwide?
US SoccerYouthSoccerRankings.us is the most accurate ranking system in the nation, this according to the NCAA and the AYSO. This site ranks close to 100,000 youth soccer teams in the US based upon the results of more than 600,000 games played since August 1st 2016. The results come directly from 357 different official tournament or league websites. The best youth soccer…
What Are the Most Popular Youth Sports in the US?
US SoccerNo, it is not soccer. It would be Basketball, with a whooping 23% of all kids under the age of 18 are involved in this sport either with a city, school or club!! Then comes soccer that in the past 18 months has taken over Baseball and Football and left them trailing behind. Football has had a drastic drop in…
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