Behind The Scenes With Harlem FC’s Joseph Koroma
By: Veronica Leon, BESE.com
Soccer in America: why aren’t more black kids playing the world’s game?
By: Les Carpenter | The Guardian Soccer found Robert Russ when he was in the seventh grade – not that he was looking for it. Like most African American kids at his Washington middle school, he had no interest in the game. Soccer, everyone had told him, was either for white children in the suburbs […]
‘White soccer teams don’t pay upfront’: how race unlevelled US playing fields
By: Les Carpenter | The Guardian Wealthy, mostly white soccer clubs in the US have long snatched up the best pitches – but in liberal Seattle, one official is taking a stand. A few years ago, Exequiel Soltero wanted to rent two soccer fields in a well-to-do Seattle suburb. Finding places for his Latino immigrant soccer league to […]
More large youth clubs leave Girls DA
By Charles Boehm | Soccer Wire The turf war between U.S. Soccer’s Girls Development Academy and its incumbent competitor the Elite Clubs National League rumbles on. Multiple sources tell SoccerWire.com that three of the nation’s largest youth clubs are set to officially announce their departure from the Girls DA on Wednesday, in order to join […]
Is college soccer too much of a risk for rising U.S. talent?
By: Tisha Thompson, E:60 ERYK WILLIAMSON STOOD in front of Albany’s soccer goal and took a deep breath. The Maryland students chanting in the end zone, throwing taunts at the goalkeeper below them, went still. His coach crouched down on his heels, hand over his mouth, in silence. Even the brittle wind, the kind that digs deep […]
Galaxy sign Zlatan Ibrahimovic
By Kevin Baxter | LA Times A little more than a decade ago, the Galaxy lured David Beckham to Southern California from one of Europe’s top soccer clubs, a move that changed the direction of the sport in the U.S. forever. On Thursday the Galaxy finalized a deal to bring an even bigger name to Major […]
U.S. Soccer Has A New President
By: Scott Neuman | NPR Carlos Cordeiro is the new president of the U.S. Soccer Federation, succeeding his boss, Sunil Gulati, in a final vote over the weekend that concluded a contentious race. Gulati, who has served as head of the organization since 2006, declined to run for reelection after the U.S. men’s national team failed to qualify […]
NASL’s sues U.S. Soccer
By : Michael McCann | SI The ongoing legal battle between the North American Soccer League and the U.S. Soccer Federation entered the New York state court system this week. In an aggressively worded complaint, NASL has sued U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati, Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber and 13 other members–but not every remaining one–of […]
Until youth soccer is fixed, US men’s national team is destined to fail
By: Rick Eckstein David beating Goliath is very exciting – unless you’re a fan of Goliath. The United States has 330 million people and a massive youth soccer system, yet its men’s national soccer team just got bushwhacked by a team from Trinidad and Tobago, a country with 1.3 million residents. How could this happen? It’s not just about […]
Girls don’t need U.S. Soccer Development Academy
By: Jeff DiVeronica | Democrat & Chronicle I didn’t like U.S. Soccer’s Development Academy program when it was launched locally for boys five years ago, and I like it even less now that teenage girls are being asked to make the same choice between playing for their school or joining the academy. But it’s happening in Section V […]