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Which Clubs Have The Most USMYNT Players? (June 2023-June 2024)
List of current USMYNT players by club.
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Boehm: Questions and answers on DC United’s new P2P program
On Tuesday D.C. United announced their new “DMV Pathway 2 Pro” partnership with five local youth clubs; with questions pouring in from coaches, parents and others around the DMV soccer scene, Charles Boehm sheds a bit of light on some of the finer points of this news.
VIDEO: Inside training camp with the NYCFC Academy
Preseason training camp is officially underway for the New York City FC Academy program, ahead of the 2018-2019 U.S. Soccer Development Academy season.
Dougherty: How youth coaches, players and parents can help fix U.S. player development
Longtime soccer coach and SoccerWire.com columnist Joe Dougherty outlines six specific areas of focus that U.S. youth soccer coaches, players and parents need to emphasize in order to help the U.S. Men's National Team return to relevance in future World Cup cycles.
Hummer: Addiction to GotSoccer stifling youth soccer progress
If you are involved in youth soccer and value team rankings in any way, you are an accomplice in killing the future of our game. For the sake of our children, I’m begging you to quit. Rankings are like an addiction, and in this case, GotSoccer is the drug.
U.S. Soccer Girls’ DA officials discuss goals for the new league
In a teleconference with members of the media last week, Girls' DA Director Miriam Hickey, U.S. Soccer Women’s Technical Director April Heinrichs, and U.S. Soccer Academy Jared Micklos spoke about this new venture and why the timing was right for creating the Girls' DA, tens year after the creation of the Boys Development Academy.
Dougherty: Doing the Right Thing in a World of the Professional Foul
There are certain moments in a youth soccer coach’s life when you can make a significant difference in a young person’s life, the kind of difference that the youngster will look back upon years later and realize it significantly affected her life. Unfortunately, coaches are not given a script in advance to know when that moment will arrive.
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.
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.
