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SURVEY: How will Fall 2016 tournaments deal with coming age group changes?
Do you run a tournament that will have open applications prior to the coming age group changes from school year to calendar year for teams? We want your opinion for use in our ongoing reporting of what is the biggest administrative change to disrupt youth soccer in decades.
High-school dropouts: Will U.S. Soccer’s new girls Development Academy bar school play?
After a year or so of gossip, and nearly a month after SoccerWire.com's report of U.S. Soccer's plans for launching a girls equivalent to the Development Academy, it seems the federation is set to roll out its vision for a new elite girls national competition at some point in the next week. The first question on the lips of industry veterans is a familiar one: Will they ban high-school soccer for the girls, too?
St. Louis soccer community still needs help after disastrous floods trash nation’s first soccer park
As large swaths of the United States' East Coast are swamped by one of the largest snowstorms in recorded history, it's easy to forget that St. Louis, the ancestral cradle of American soccer, is still reeling from its own severe weather event of just a few weeks ago. And one of the Arch City's most beloved soccer institutions was hit hard.
NWSL draft review: A full breakdown of last week’s picks, hits and misses
Last week's NWSL draft offered intrigue, upgraded production quality and an exciting start to the professional soccer careers of dozens of talented young women. Mark Shawhan was among the sizeable contingent of media on hand, and he's compiled a detailed evalution of the 2016 draft crop.
Dure: No simple solution makes MLS perfect for Jordan Morris or fans
U.S. Men's National Team starlet and Hermann Trophy winner Jordan Morris is presently deciding whether to sign with German club Werder Bremen, or accept a Homegrown deal with the Seattle Sounders that represents the biggest such offer in MLS history. In many ways, his choice represents the one that faces the entire American soccer community, writes Beau Dure.
Bruce: Five calls to action for youth soccer
SoccerParenting.com founder Skye Eddy Bruce outlines her top five calls to action for youth soccer entering 2016.
Dure: NSCAA Convention shows soccer still needs to work on sales pitch
From all outward appearances, the NSCAA Convention in Baltimore is the temporary hub of a thriving sport. But some of these meeting rooms are full of fretting about the state of the game. And they have stats and trends to back it up, writes Beau Dure.
Dure: NSCAA Convention a great time for much needed national youth soccer discussion
SoccerWire.com's Beau Dure outlines some of the forums he'll be attending on youth soccer issues today, saying it’s about time we youth soccer coaches, administrators, journalists and so forth gathered for the NSCAA Convention. We need to talk.
