Yesterday (December 6, 2021) MLS NEXT Pro announced the 21 clubs that will compete in the new professional league’s inaugural 2022 season. The new professional league will complete a player pathway from MLS NEXT through to the MLS pro-teams. The newly created league will offer youth players and some experienced professionals that opportunity to develop their talents while competing for…
New Orlando City chairman Mark Wilf: “We want to win The MLS”
US SoccerThe Wilf family has wanted to gain access to the Major League Soccer for a long some time. The family group led by siblings Mark and Zygi and their cousin Lenny acquired a few months back a non-majority stake inNashville Soccer Club. Now, with the purchase ofOrlando City SCand Orlando Pride, the Wilfs finally have now a soccer club under…
New Stats Suggest Elite Shot-Stopping Goalkeeping Matters a Lot.
GoalkeepersThe Goalkeeper is arguably the hardest position to play effectively. People think its the easiest. At least in my experience, goalkeepers are the most underappreciated players on the pitch. Let’s ask anyone under the age of 21 who their favorite soccer player is. Messi, Ronaldo, Pulisic… the glory always goes to players who score goals, not the ones who stop…
MLS academy, Homegrown players being exported
Goalkeeper AcademyEuropean clubs have just kicked off their 2020-21 seasons or are about to, and many Euro-Clubs have checked in on most of the MLS academy products and the “Homegrown Players”. As MLS Next took off a couple of weeks ago in it’s debut, what we have here is essentially all the strides that came before it the new MLS Academy…
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…
US Youth Soccer Claims that they will invigorate ODP through MLS partnership
Goalkeeper AcademyUS Youth Soccer CEO Skip Gilbert expressed in a recent podcast interview his high hopes for reinvigorating the US Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program (ODP) through his organization’s new partnership with Major League Soccer. Before we even start going through what Gilbert said and what he intends to do, let us say that NOTHING will change. Why? Because in the past 45 years…
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