All about the money’: The decline of Minnesota United’s youth academy
Parents of academy players said ownership and upper management viewed the youth system as “a money suck and a waste of time.”
U.S. Soccer shuts down development academy; MLS forms new youth program
U.S. Soccer announced on Wednesday that it is closing down the development academy
Alphonso Davies is off to Bayern Munich. Here’s why he’s Canada’s most important soccer player
By: Cathal Kelly | The Globe & Mail | The previous time the greatest-ever Canadian soccer player left for Europe, no one noticed. Calgary’s Owen Hargreaves was 16 years old when scouts from German giant Bayern Munich hoovered him up into their youth system. They were well ahead of Canada in that regard. Few media outlets […]
Does Alphonso Davies’ move to Bayern Munich raise the standard of MLS youth development?
By: Graham Parker, U.S. soccer writer | ESPN It’s a measure of Major League Soccer’s present status that the deal sending Alphonso Davies to Bayern Munich is destined to be analyzed for its broader cultural significance as much as its relative transactional merits. On one level, why wouldn’t it be? In its third decade, MLS has made significant […]
The International Champions Cup Futures Youth Soccer Tournament Has Lofty Goals
By Jacob Feldman | SI Organizers of soccer’s newest youth tournament are not shy about their ambitions. “The Little League World Series was a huge inspiration for us,” said Daniel Sillman, the CEO of Relevent Sports, which launched the International Champions Cup Futures event taking place this week. Relevent executive chairman Charlie Stillitano was even […]
In soccer, unlike basketball, there aren’t a lot of scholarship dollars.
BY Mark W. Wright | The Undefeated | It was time to have “the talk.” We both knew it. Max’s sunken shoulders said everything his quivering lips couldn’t. We’d just gotten home from a fourth night of training, and our drive on this rainy and cold night was a bad one. They were all bad, […]
Timothy Weah
By: Nike
Should Major Changes be Coming to NCAA Soccer?
There appear to be some very good reasons for making college soccer a year-long endeavor, but is the establishment too resistant to change?
U.S., Mexico and Canada win joint bid for 2026 World Cup
By Steven Goff | Washington Post MOSCOW — The United States, Canada and Mexico were awarded on Wednesday the right to host the 2026 World Cup, returning the world’s most popular sports competition to North America for the first time since 1994. Over the past year, while disputes between the three countries threatened to derail their effort, U.S. […]