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TCM Survey: Youth soccer players who don’t practice at home are more likely to quit
Results from The Coaching Manual's survey.
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Mayhem at RFK! The USA-Honduras game that lives in infamy
Mayhem at RFK! The USA-Honduras game that lives in infamy
Bradenton Residency is dead: What does it all mean?
The U.S. Soccer Federation announced the shuttering of its Bradenton Residency Program in Florida on Friday afternoon. Charles Boehm takes a look at the factors behind this abrupt revelation.
Shawhan: Time for USWNT to consider benching Carli Lloyd
One could point to many factors in trying to explain the USWNT's recent last-place finish at their own SheBelieves Cup mini-tournament. One cause that deserves more attention, though, is the poor play of team co-captain Carli Lloyd, writes Mark Shawhan.
Boehm: US U-20s back on track, but more proof required
Charles Boehm breaks down the positives and shortcomings of the U.S. U-20 Men's National Team's vital win over Haiti in 2017 CONCACAF World Cup qualifying on Tuesday.
Boehm: US U-20 men lay an egg of historic proportions vs. Panama
But when a supposedly high-level team (and its coach), wearing their country’s colors, flops as badly as the U.S. Under-20 Men’s National Team did in their opening match of the CONCACAF World Cup qualifying tournament on Saturday, there’s no avoiding some very ugly postmortems, says Charles Boehm.
Case for bio-banding? Man United academy research finds late bloomers overlooked
It’s long been seen as a fact of life in U.S. youth soccer: The bigger kids are at an advantage, and thus disproportionately identified as promising players. But new research suggests that even world-renowned professional academies may be overlooking talented but undersized players.
Games & Thrones: ECNL vs. Girls DA cold war rages
A battle is quietly unfolding under the surface in the highest echelons of youth soccer in the U.S. Two rival leagues find themselves faced off in a battle of hearts and minds – and therefore wallets, writes Charles Boehm.
LD rumors: Might Landon Donovan keep playing after all?
Is Landon Donovan's comeback really over after nine games and barely two months? It's far from clear how things will shake out, but we might well be seeing a lot more of arguably the most decorated player in U.S. soccer history in 2017 -- and in a different place -- than we thought, sources tell SoccerWire's Charles Boehm.
