February 15 Issue, 2013
Southern Soccer Scene
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MLS Is Preparing
For Season #18
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When To Treat Injuries
With Ice Or Heat
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Women Hoping Third
Times The Charm
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Headliners
Klinsmann’s Team
Has Back-To-Back
Disappointing Games
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Jurgen Klinsmann
Washington Spirit
Filling Roster, Preparing
For Preseason Action
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Abbey Wambach’s Diving Header In the U.S. WNT’s 3-1 Victory Over Scotland Was Her 153rd Career Goal. That Puts Her
Within Five Goals Of Mia Hamm’s All-Time Goal Total Of 158. It Came In Her 200th Appearance For The USA.
Nowhere To Go But Up, In CONCACAF
One game into the final round of
CONCACAF qualifying for a berth in
World Cup 2014 in Brazil, Jurgen
Klinsmann and his U.S. MNT find themselves at the bottom of the six-team standings.
The U.S., which dropped a 2-1 decision
on the road in Honduras to open the Hexagonal, was the only team to lose.
Jamaica went to Mexico City and came
U.S. National Team
Roundups.....Pages 14-15
home with an improbable 0-0 draw with
Mexico. Costa Rica, the USA’s next opponent, came back from a 2-0 deficit to draw
2-2 with Panama.
The U.S., playing without starters Steve
Cherundolo and Landon Donovan, played
well enough to earn a tie, but not good
enough to secure a win. Honduras got the
game winner with about eight minutes left
in regulation on a defensive breakdown.
With three of their first four games on the
road, the U.S. can’t afford to leave any points
on the table. That makes the second game,
a home meeting with Costa Rica on March
22, that much more important.
See Needing A Win, Page 3
What They Said!
3
Soccer Calendar
4
Coaches Tips
5
Professional Leagues 7& 9
Soccer In Alabama 10-11
Soccer In Florida 12-13
U.S. National Teams 14-15
Soccer In Georgia 16-17
Soccer In N.C.
18-19
Soccer In S.C.
20-21
Soccer In Tennessee 22-23
Soccer In Virginia 24-25
Regional Roundup 26
February 15, 2013
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Say It Ain’t So, Joe
FIFA President Joseph “Sepp” Blatter has a
new corruption problem in the world of soccer.
Europol, from The Hague in the Netherlands, has
reported that organized crime has fixed or tried to
fix hundreds of soccer matches throughout the
world in recent years, including World Cup and
European Championship qualifiers and two Champions League matches.
The report was the result of an 18-month review of 380 suspicious matches in Europe and
another 300 questionable games outside the continent, mainly in Africa, Asia and South and Central America. Europol, the European Union’s police agency, refused to name any suspected
matches, players, officials or match-fixers.
Europol reported 425 match officials, club office officials and players and criminals from at least
15 countries were involved in fixing European soccer games dating back to 2008.
New FHSAA Age Limit
The Florida High School Athletic Association
has adopted a new age limit rule, which will go
into effect on July 1, 2014. It states that a “student
who reaches the age of 19 on or after September
1, and who has not exceeded his/her four-year limit
of eligibility, may participate in inter-scholastic athletics during that school year.”
Previously, the rule stated that a student may
participate at the high school level until reaching
the age limit of 19 years and nine months, if the
student had not exceeded their four-year limit of
eligibility.
Prior to this rule change, Florida was the only
state to have an age limit that exceeded 19 years
of age, and proponents of the change say it will
stop athletes who age out in their home states, from
transferring to Florida where they would have been
eligible to play for another nine months.
“In My Opinion..........”
No Time To Panic......Yet!
By Ray Alley
We knew the opening game for the U.S. Men
in the final round of regional World Cup qualifying would be difficult. But we didn’t expect a
loss!
The other two games resulted in draws, including Jamaica’s surprising 0-0 draw against
Mexico in Mexico
City.
With three of their
first four Hexagonal
games on the road,
Jurgen Klinsmann
and his team find
themselves in a hole.
Ray Alley
It’s no time to panic!
Disappointed? Yes! Concerned? Yes, yes, yes!
With nine games to go, five of them here at
home, it is hard to imagine the U.S. not earning
one of CONCACAF’s tickets to Brazil in 2014.
Yes, the important thing is to qualify, and we
would take that and move on, but if we have
hopes of being a contender to journey deep into
the knockout round, we need to put together a
string of positive results for a high regional finish. First would be nice.
OK, here are the concerns. First, as a soccer
nation we can’t seem to move past “the draw.”
Poor results after four games would leave us
near the bottom of the standings. Positive results in those four games would rank us at the
top. The draw is what it is. The important thing
is the results.
• Concern #1. Twenty years ago when the
U.S. MNT was filled by collegiate players, there
was little training time as a team. Klinsmann
trained a roster of mostly potential backup players for three weeks in January before playing
Canada to a disappointing 0-0 draw in an international friendly.
He had his first-team roster of mostly European-based players together for a couple of days
before heading to Honduras.
• Concern #2. How good is the chemistry on
the U.S. team, with a number of German-American newcomers being worked into key positions,
and a defense marked by question marks rather
than Xs and Os. The four starters in the back
had a combined 14 national team caps, and captain Carlos Bocanegra spent the game on the
bench.
• Concern #3. The team’s leading scorer, and
arguably the one who, on a good day, can drive
the U.S. offense, was in California deciding if at
age 30 he’s played enough soccer. His professional coach, LA Galaxy’s Bruce Arena, says
Landon Donovan will play this year, but
Donovan has yet to publicly say he will.
It’s likely that Klinsmann and his teammates
would welcome him back, but does he still have
the drive and intensity that it will take to lead the
team to the 2014 World Cup?
• Concern #4. There is no doubt that our
players are better today than they were back in
1990 when the U.S. earned a World Cup berth
for the first time in 50 years. Better, and we have
more of them.
But are we good enough? Does the commitment to be a good professional player measure
up by international standards. Commitment is
part of the mental part of the game, and difficult
to measure.
Oh there are other concerns, and there are expectations.
With Klinsmann in charge, the U.S. has turned
in some good results in international friendlies,
winning in Italy and in Mexico City’s Azteca
Stadium. But in official FIFA competitions?
This is not a World Cup year, but it is filled
with a schedule of meaningful games. The
CONCACAF Hexagonal offers 10 World Cup
qualifying games.
The Gold Cup later this year will be played
in the U.S. That regional championship qualifies the winner for the 2017 Confederations Cup.
Mexico gets that trip this time after winning the
last Gold Cup in a 4-2 thrashing of the U.S.
By winning the 2007 Gold Cup, we beat Spain
in the Confederation’s Cup semifinal and lost 3See The Challenge, Page 5
Hexagonal
From Page 1
The game will be played at altitude in Commerce City, Colorado.
After that home match, comes road trips to
Mexico City and to Jamacia.
The loss to Honduras marked the first time
the U.S. has lost to open the final round of qualifying.
Three teams out of the six in the Hexagonal
get straight into the World Cup. The #4 finisher
will play a two-game series with the Oceania winner for the final ticket to Brazil.
Against Costa Rica, Cherundolo is not expected
to be back from surgery on his injured knee that
kept him out of the opening game. It has been
reported that Donovan will return from his
sabatical from the game, but nothing official from
the USA’s all-time leading scorer.
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What
Soccer People
Are Saying!
“Once I realized I wouldn’t want
to drive over any bridge that I designed, I knew that coaching is
where I should be.” Georgetown
men’s head coach Brian Weise, who
earned his undergraduate degree in
Engineering. (NSCAA.com)
•••••••
“In a locker room where the offensive egos of players are struggling
to live, the arrival of a third-hand
Rolls Royce that becomes the main
focus of media fascination risks
causing envy, while feeding a climate of discord.” French newspaper
Le Gigaro on David Beckham joining
Paris Saint-German. (Irish Times)
•••••••
“Our fort is the Olimpico (San
Pedro Sula stadium), and we hope,
as we say, that the ‘gringos’ feel
this pressure and those blondies
leave here red-faced and leave
Honduras scared.” Honduran forward Roger ‘Ro-Ro’ Rojas predicting they would run Jurgen
Klinsmann’s ‘gringos’ out of the stadium in the CONCACAF Hexagonal
opener. (Soccer America)
•••••••
“You have to go with a knife between our teeth and battle them
one on one to get a result.” Honduran forward Carlos Costly, before
Honduras’ 2-1 win over the U.S.,
speaking on what it would take to get
a win over the American team.
(Soccer America)
•••••••
“I’m not really big on personal accolades and awards. It’s just not
my style. So for me, it’s another
game. It’s exciting, I guess.” U.S.
WNT forward Abby Wambach, on
earning her 200th international camp
when the USA plays Scotland in Nashville, TN. (Feb. 13, 2013) (US
Soccer.com)
•••••••
“I reckon Jurgen’s job is tougher.”
Said new U.S. WNT coach Tom
Sermanni, when considering the difficulty of his job compared to U.S.
MNT coach Jurgen Klinsmann’s responsibilities in the final round of
World Cup 2014 qualifying. (The
Herald)
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Calendar Of Events
Upcoming Games & Events
Recruiting Release Links Found
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February 6 was the starting of
the NCAA signing period for college soccer (among other sports).
Beginning that day, and continuing through the spring, schools will
be releasing their list of signed
recruits for the fall of 2013.
Southern Soccer Scene annually provides a link section on
www.southernsoccerscene.com
called College Signees, where fans
can find links to the release pages
on the websites of their favorite
teams. Our focus is on programs in
the Southeast USA and lower MiddleAtlantic region, and to schools with
conference affiliations in those regions.
The link to this section can be found
on the information bar below the slider
section on our website.
This section will be updated regularly, as collegiate programs will release their signees daily.
We have provided links for both
men’s and women’s collegiate programs. However, schools do not make
both releases available at the same
time.
Broward vs. Dade Prep All-Stars
Set To Meet At Lockhart
Generations of South Florida’s
most talented student-athletes have
competed on the field at historic
Lockhart Stadium, and the NASL Fort
Lauderdale Strikers are honoring this
tradition by hosting the First Annual
Dade-Broward High School All-Star
Game on March 2.
In coordination with the Greater
Miami Athletic Conference and the
Broward County Athletic Association,
this annual event is an excellent opportunity for South Florida’s top high
school seniors to be seen by local and
national college recruiters and the
community.
“The passion and dedication to
soccer in South Florida is outstanding, and it’s our job to support the
kids and everyone who make it possible,” said Strikers team president
Tom Mulroy.
“We are thankful for the efforts of
everyone who has helped to make this
event a reality for this year and hopefully many more to come.”
Admission to the event will be $5
and will feature two games, with the
all-star girls kicking off at 5:00 pm and
the all-star boys starting at 7:30 pm.
USA U-20 MNT vs. Haiti
USA U-20 MNT vs. Costa Rica
Toronto FC @ Vancouver Whitecaps
USA Men vs. Costa Rica
USA Men vs. Mexico
USA Men vs. Jamaica
USA Men vs. Panama
Puebla, Mexico
Puebla, Mexico
MLS Season Opener
Commerce City, Colorado
Mexico City
TBA (Away)
TBA (Home)
Check Out Soccer On TV
Gold Cup Games
Coming To Southeast
The United States will again host
the CONCACAF Gold Cup championships for 2013. Games will be
played in 13 cities.
The 12-team tournament is scheduled from July 7-28, 2013.
On the list of venues is the Georgia
Dome in Atlanta, M&T Bank Stadium
in Baltimore, Cowboys Stadium in
Arlington, TX, BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston and Sun Life Stadium
in Miami Gardens, FL.
Dates and specific games will be
announced later.
Tournament Schedules
Disney Pro Soccer Classic
Soccer On Television
Feb. 18
Feb. 22
March 2
March 22
March 26
June 7
June 11
The women’s programs tend to
complete their recruiting classes
early, and release their lists before
the men’s programs. Also, keep in
mind that a number of schools only
sponsor women’s collegiate programs.
If you are aware that a school has
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Columbus Crew vs. Toronto FC, 1 p.m.
Montreal Impact vs. Sporting Kansas City, 3 p.m.
Orlando City SC vs. Philadelphia Union, 6 p.m.
D.C. United vs. Tampa Bay Rowdies, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Philadelphia Union vs. Columbus Crew, 1 p.m.
Tampa Bay Rowdies vs. Montreal Impact, 3 p.m.
Sporting Kansas City vs. D.C. United, 6 p.m.
Toronto FC vs. Orlando City Soccer Club, 8 p.m.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Montreal Impact vs. D.C. United, 1 p.m.
Philadelphia Union vs. Toronto FC, 3 p.m.
Orlando City SC vs. Columbus Crew, 6 p.m.
Tampa Bay Rowdies vs. Sporting KC, 8 p.m.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Pro Soccer Classic Championship Day
Group A #4 vs. Group B #4 , 1 p.m.
Region III Hosts
US Youth Soccer has announced
that Edmond, Okla., and Oklahoma
Soccer Association will host the
2013 US Youth Soccer Region III
(South) Championships as part of
the US Youth Soccer National
Championship Series. The games
will take place at the ESC Complex
in Edmond, Ok. The event is scheduled for June 20-27.
Carolina Challenge Cup
The 2013 Carolina Challenge
Cup, hosted by the Charleston Battery in Charleston, SC, is set for
Feb. 16-23. The four-team round
robin event includes three Majoir
League Soccer teams: the
Vancouver Whitecaps, Houston
Dynamo and Chicago Fire.
The Battery opens with the
Whitecaps in a doubleheader with
Houston meeting Chicago. Charleston will meet Chicago and
Vancouver will play Houston on
Wednesday, Feb. 20. The event
concludes on Saturday, Feb. 23 with
Charleston playing Houston and the
Fire taking on the Whitecaps. All
games at Blackbaud Stadium.
Algarve Cup Draw
The U.S. WNT, eight-time
Algarve champions, will open the
2013 Algarve Cup in Portugal against
Iceland on March 6 at Municipal
Stadium in Albufeira. Kickoff time
is 2 p.m. local / 9 a.m. ET. Fans can
follow all the U.S. matches on
ussoccer.com's MatchTracker and on
Twitter @ussoccer_WNT.
The USA’s second Group B match
against China PR is on March 8 with
a kickoff at 9 a.m. ET. Americans
will finish group play with a match
against Sweden at the Municipal Stadium in Lagos on March 11 with a
The German National team has
announced that Germany will play a
match on June 2 against the U.S.
MNT in Washington, DC, as US Soccer celebrates its 100th anniversary.
The German team will play another
international friendly on the trip
against a yet unnamed opponent.
The June 2 game will be a reunion of Germany national team
coach Joachim Low and U.S. coach
Jurgen Klinsmann. Low was
Klinsmann’s former assistant.
Costa Rica Qualifier
The U.S. Men’s National Team
will host Costa Rica, March 22 at
Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado. The game,
which kicks off at 10 p.m. ET can be
seen live on ESPN. This is the
second game for the U.S. in the 10game Hexangonal, the final round of
regional qualification for the 2014
FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
2013 Presidents Cup
The Florida Youth Soccer Association has been selected to host
the 2013 US Youth National Presidents Cup, July 11-14, at the Lake
Myrtle Sports Park in Auburndale,
FL. The Region III Presidents Cup
will be held in Decatur, Alabama in
early June.
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start time of 3 p.m. local / 10 a.m. ET.
The game with Sweden will be the
first meeting between the teams since
former U.S. head coach Pia Sundhage
assumed the head coaching duties for
her home country.
Group A will feature Germany,
Denmark, Japan and Norway. The
three nations that will join host Portugal in Group C are Hungary, Wales
and Mexico
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Think Of All Those Replica Jerseys Being Made!
Soccer Notes
Former University of Maryland and D.C. United forward Alecko
Eskandarian has joined the NASL New York Cosmos as an assistant
coach. Alecko, the 2002 Hermann Award winner with the Cavaliers,
ended his pro career after playing 136 matches with 36 goals, after
suffering concussion syndrome. Eskandarian’s father Andranik played
for the Cosmos during their glory days in the 1970s-80s. Most recently
he served as the youth technical director for the Philadelphia Union of
MLS.....Bethesda, Md., native Mike Jeffries, 50, the 1983 Hermann
Trophy winner as a senior at Duke University and former MLS head
coach with Dallas, has been named the head coach of the USL’s Des
Moines Menace in the Premier Development League. Jeffries is the
eighth Menace head coach in franchise history.....Yes, he’s still playing. DaMarcus Beasley came off the bench to score a pair of late
goals to give Puebla a 3-1 victory over San Luis in Mexico’s Liga
MX....U.S. MNT midfielder Jose
Torres was released by Pachuca, his
longtime Mexican League club where
he made 154 appearances over six seasons, but was picked up by Tigres, and
started in its 4-1 win over Toluca to keep
its unbeaten streak intact and the club
in first place.....U.S. MNT midfielder
Sacha Kljestan has resigned with
Anderlecht through the 2016
season.....New York Red Bulls’ Thierry
Henry has said that soccer officials
Jose Torres
should deduct points from teams whose
fans racially abuse players. Several players have been targets of abuse
from supporters in recent weeks, including U.S. national forward Jozy
Altidore while playing for his Dutch club AZ Alkmaar......U.S. MNT
midfielder Mikkel Diskerud, 22, has signed a new two-year contract
with Norwegian Tippeligaen club Rosenborg......Clint Dempsey and
Tottenham kept their Champions League position with a 2-1 EPL win
over Newcastle, while Brad Guzan and Aston Villa scratched their
way out of the drop zone with a 2-1 win over West Ham. Dempsey
went the distance for Spurs, while Brad Friedel dressed, but did not
play for Newcastle. Guzan made several key saves for Villa......Everton
slipped in the EPL standings after a 2-0 loss to Manchester United.
Tim Howard, just back from the CONCACAF World Cup qualifier
in Honduras, was in goal for
Everton....American teenager Marc
Pelosi has been called up by Liverpool
from its U-21 team for Europa League
play. Pelosi, 18, was born in Germany,
but grew up in Northern California and
was a key midfielder on the U.S. Under-17 national team. Liverpool has
advanced to the Round of 32 of the
Europa League....Without a team
again!....In January the MLS Philadelphia Union addressed the status of
Mike Jeffreys
Freddy Adu for the 2013 season. Head
coach John Hackworth, in a letter to season-ticket holders, said that
the club had tried to work with Adu in the offseason to adjust his contract, but Adu had rejected those overtures and while he continued to
be on the Union’s list of players and is being paid by the club, he was
not part of the club’s plans for the future. The Union is seeking to trade
or loan him.....Amanda Vandervort has assumed the office of Vice
President of Marketing for the NSCAA Executive Committee, which
is the second step in a five-year process
leading to serving as the NSCAA president. Vandervort also currently serves
as the Director of Social Media for Major League Soccer and is the FIFA Marketing
and
Communications
Instructor.....D.C. United has acquired
defender James Riley from Chivas USA
in exchange for a 2015 second round
Supplemental Draft pick. Riley, who tied
Dan Kennedy for most minutes played
(2,880) last year at Chivas USA (32
Freddy Adu
games played/games started), has played
over 200 games in Major League Soccer. He played collegiate soccer
at Wake Forest.....Brek Shea’s transfer deal from MLS FC Dallas to
Stoke City of the English Premier League was settled when he obtained a work permit. Shea scored a goal for the Stoke reserves in a 21 loss against Burnley. He is expected to make his EPL debut for the
Potters against Fulham on Feb. 23.
Southern Soccer Scene.......February 15, 2013
The Beckham Express Lands In Paris
The answer to the question of
“where will he go, what will he do?”
has been answered.
David Beckham next, and perhaps
last, professional soccer club will be
Paris St. Germain in France.
He’s signed a five-year contract,
with his salary being donated to a
children’s charity in France.
Beckham opted out of another year
with Major League Soccer and the Los
Angeles Galaxy, stepping away after
leading that team to the 2012 MLS
Cup championship.
Without a salary, Beckham is by no
means without financial resources.
He’s banked millions, and there are
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millions more to be made off his name
and reputation, if not the quality of his
play when he takes the field in Paris.
Already the London media has
speculated on
just how
m a n y
Paris St.
Germain
Beckham
replica
jerseys
will be
sold. At
l e a s t
150,000
David Beckham
Nine Games Left
2 in the final to Brazil, after leading 2-0 at the half.
Next up for the U.S. MNT is
Costa Rica on Mar. 22, in Colorado.
None of these games will be
easy, but it is a game we should
win. But we should have won the
game in Honduras. Make that
“could!”
In the Hexagonal opener only
veteran right back Steve
Cherundolo was missing with an
knee injury.
Except for
Cherundolo and Donovan,
Klinsmann had arguably his best
roster. Yes, we can debate a couple
of others, but.....!
Going forward. It is time to get
past the “audition mentality” of trying to make the team, and develop
a level of confidence that allows
good players to play to the best of
their ability.
When you get the opportunity
play to find a way to win the game,
and in a situation where the game is
winding down and the score is tied,
find a way to not lose the game.
Losing to Honduras makes it
very important to win at home and
that starts against Costa Rica next
month.
Success develops confidence,
and the mental strength of any
player is a key to how well he or
she will play in a competitive environment.
So now, we are 0-1 with nine
games to play. No time to panic.
You can be disappointed and you
can be concerned, but all that matters now in the question to book
that ticket to Brazil is what lies
ahead!
reports The Daily Mail, and at $150 a
pop that comes to a cool $20 million.
That’s not just sheer speculation,
when one considers past markets. The
Daily Mail figures over 10 million
Beckham jerseys have been sold over
his career, and that probably generated
$1.5 billion in revenue.
Those who follow the economic
climate in Europe and the high income
tax in France, which has recently been
in the news, can understand why he is
taking no salary. The income tax in
France runs as high as 75%.
The jersey deal is protected from
that tax as it is expected that Londonbased Footwork Productions will
handle all of the merchandising rights.
So while Beckham plays in France,
he cashes his checks in his native England.
Cal South Sends
Four To ODP
Championships
Cal South swept Region IV ODP
championships for boys and girls in the
1996 and 1997 age groups to advance
teams to the 2013 U.S. Youth Soccer
ODP Championships March 1-3 at the
FC Dallas Stadium in Frisco, Texas.
The ODP state teams competing for
the national championship are as follows:
1996 Girls: New Jersey, Indiana, Georgia,
California South.
1997 Girls: Eastern New York, Michigan,
North Texas, California South.
1997 Boys: Virginia, Michigan, Florida,
California South.
1996 Boys: Eastern Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, California South
Coaches Proper Technique
Tips
For ‘Keeper Is Crucial
By Ray Alley
Soccer coaches, when evaluating players, like to
talk about how “technical” that player is. Those
coaches are talking about “skills.”
While there are certain fundamental building blocks
in developing skills that allow field players to handle
the ball with ease, we also encourage field players to
develop a flair and encourage them to expand their
comfort zone with the ball.
Thus, the idea that the player and the ball “become
as one.” We allow “creative” field players to individualize their skill proficiency as long as the end result is successful.
Training a goalkeeper is a bit different. While
the athletic ability of the individual will dictate the
overall development of a goalkeeper, there are basic fundamental techniques that all goalkeepers
must develop.
Those basically involve the hands and feet. Specifically, the ability to catch the ball and the ability to move and get into the correct position to make
the play.
It would seem that catching the ball is an easy thing.
Either a player can catch it or they can not. We are a
society where young players play a lot of different
sports, and soccer is the only one where they do not
catch and toss all the time. Technique is often over-
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looked, and the ability to catch is taken for granted.
However, the mechanics of catching “with soft
hands” is a technique that can be developed with repetitive training. Same with the position of the hands
when catching so that the ball does not fly through the
fingers, and finally the technique of “securing” the ball
after the catch.
Footwork is very important, and proper footwork
can be developed with movement training that gets
the player in the proper position to catch the ball.
Nothing sophisticated about this. It’s a matter of breaking lazy movement habits and developing a balanced
position each and every time you catch the ball.
Diving technique is often more difficult for young
players to learn. Face-down “superman” dives means
the goalkeeper will not see the ball all the way to his/
her hands (the keeper is looking at the ground), and
the goalkeeper is not using his/her “third hand”, which
is the ground.
The term is “third hand down.” One hand on top of
the ball, one hand behind the ball, and the third hand
is the ground. Solid technique will save the goal and
win the game.
We want our goalkeepers to be athletic, but rather
they not be overly “creative.”
Do you train your goalkeepers on these techniques
every practice? The ones that win championships do!
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NSCAA 2012 National Coach Of The Year
the head coach at Messiah, McCarty has a 89-4-1 record.
NCAA Division I Men
Brian Wiese, Georgetown University
Weise and the Hoyas concluded the year with a 19-4-3 overall record, the most wins recorded in a single season by the
team. Additionally, Weise led the Hoyas to an appearance in
the 2012 NCAA Men’s College Cup championship game, a
BIG EAST Blue Division Regular Season Championship,
and a trip to the BIG EAST Tournament Championship Game.
In his seven years with Georgetown, Wiese has amassed a
74-50-15 overall record and a 37-29-5 mark in the Big East.
NAIA Men
Brian McMahon, Belhaven University (Miss.)
In his first season as head coach at Belhaven, McMahon led
the Blazers to the 2012 NAIA National Championship title,
a 19-4-1 overall record and a 7-3-1 record in the Southern
States Athletic Conference. The team’s national title was the
program’s second and the school’s third in any sport.
was National Champion in 1974. That title led to him to being drafted No. 1 by the Rochester Lancers of the NASL and
his pro career spanned from 1975 to 1980.
Junior College Division III Men
Juan Sanchez, Mt. San Antonio College (Calif.)
Sanchez concluded his 11th season with the Mt. San Antonio men’s team and led the Mounties program to its fourthstraight CCCAA Championship. The Mounties finished the
season with an overall record of 21-3-1 and gave Sanchez
his eighth SCC Championship and Coach of the Year Honor.
In the past four seasons (2009-12), Sanchez’s teams have
only lost five games to boast a record of 82-5-11.
High School Division I Boys
John Conlon, East Kentwood High School (Mich.)
Conlon led the East Kentwood boys soccer team to a 22-1-4
record and the program’s fourth Division I Michigan state
title in the past six seasons. He and the Falcons finished #13
in the final NSCAA High School poll.
High School Division II Boys
NSCAA President Ralph Polson, UM’s Brian
Wiese, FieldTurf’s Jim Froslid (L-R)
NCAA Division II Men
Cale Wassermann, Saginaw Valley State (Mich.)
Wassermann concluded his third season as head coach for
the SVSU Cardinals with an impressive 18-3-4 overall record
and a 9-2-2 mark in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference. This season was the program’s best finish in its
history, which included the team’s second-straight GLIAC
Men’s Soccer Tournament Title and a run all the way to the
NCAA Division II Men’s Soccer Championship game. This
season, the Cardinals ended with a 10-1-1 home record and
a No. 2 finish in the NSCAA Top 25 national poll.
NCAA Division III Men
Brad McCarty, Messiah College (Pa.)
Since taking over as head coach of the Messiah men’s program in 2009, McCarty has established the Falcon men’s
program as one of the nation’s best. He concluded his fourth
season as the Falcons’ head coach with the program’s seventh NCAA D-III National Championship, concluding the
year with a 24-1 overall record. McCarty, who has been with
the Messiah program for a total of 12 seasons, earns his second NSCAA National Coach of the Year honor this year. As
Belhaven’s Brian McMahon (C)
NCCAA Division I Men
Ryan Jorden, California Baptist University
In five seasons as head coach of the Lancers (60-30-10),
Jorden has become the most successful coach in the program’s
history. He and the team concluded the 2012 season with a
16-5-2 overall mark, a 10-3-1 record in the PacWest and the
NCCAA National Championship.
NCCAA Division II Men
Chris McHugh, Moody Bible Institute (Ill)
In his first season as head of the Moody Bible Institute men’s
soccer program, McHugh guided the Archers to an 18-2-0
record and the NCCAA Division II National Championship.
In addition to his National Coach of the Year nod, he also
had three 2012 NSCAA All-Americans on his team.
Junior College Division I Men
Nelson Cupello, Monroe CC
Cupello just completed 23rd year as head coach at Monroe
Community College with a record breaking season of 18-11. A 2002 NJCAA Hall of Fame inductee with a career record
at MCC of 303-101-27, he played in two NJCAA National
Tournaments reaching the finals in 1971. He is also a former
All-American at Monroe Community College and SUNY
Brockport and a member of the SUNY Brockport team that
O'Brien Byrd, Whitefish High School (Mont.)
Since being named head coach of the Whitefish High
boys team, Byrd has guided the Bulldogs to four Class
A state championships, including the past two in a row.
Additionally, he earned his 100th career win this season in Whitefish’s win against his high school alma
mater, Columbia Falls. This season the Bulldogs finished 15-0, and he now has a 105-27-16 overall coaching record.
Private/Parochial Boys
Scott Molfenter, Carroll High School (Ohio)
With a 2-0 win over Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy,
Molfenter led the Carroll High boys team to its third-straight
Division II state title. The Patriots also completed an unbeaten season with its 19-0-4 record, earned its fourth state
title in five seasons and moved their unbeaten streak to 60
games heading into the 2013 season.
Youth Boys
Greg Winkler, Fond du Lac Youth Soccer (Wisc.)
Winkler has served in three roles with the Fond du Lac School
District in his 23 years: teacher, assistant athletic director
and boys and girls head soccer coach. In addition to these
roles, he also serves as the president of the Fond du Lac Soccer
Association.
NCAA Division I Women
Erica Walsh, Penn State University
This past fall marked Walsh’s 12th season at the helm of the
Nittany Lion women’s program. The 2012 season also marked
the program’s first-ever appearance in the 2012 NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Tournament and the program’s second-consecutive 20-win season. With the team’s 21-4-2
record this year, Walsh’s coaching record stands at 140-6410 at Penn State. In addition to her duties as leader of the
PSU team, she also serves as assistant coach for the U.S.
Women’s National Team.
See National Coach, Page 11
US Youth Soccer Annual
Awards Presented In Indy
US Youth Soccer honored 14 individuals with
national awards Friday night, Jan. 18, at the US
Youth Soccer Awards Gala, held in Indianapolis, IN
Hilary Kennedy, host of The US Youth Soccer Show on Fox Soccer, set the stage for the
night as the master of ceremonies for the more
than 1,000 in attendance.
Boys and Girls Competitive Coaches of the
Year, Boys and Girls Recreation Coaches of the
Year, Young Referees of the Year, Volunteer of
the Year, Administrator of the Year, Goal and
Save of the Year, TOPSoccer Buddy of the Year
and the Dr. Thomas Fleck Award were presented
during the Gala, and the 2012 US Youth Soccer
Hall of Fame Class was inducted.
And The Winners Are
• Female Young Referee of the Year: Ashley
Marroquin (Holt, Mich)
• Male Young Referee of the Year: Jordan Cavaco
(Brockton, Mass)
• Volunteer of the Year: Zoe Unger (Boca Raton, Fla.)
• Administrator of the Year: Kevin Cathelyn
(Braidwood, Ill.)
See US Youth Soccer, Page 11
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MLS Prepares For 18th Season
This Year MLS Will Pass NASL In Longevity
The original North American Soccer League
of Pele, Franz Beckenbauer, the New York Cosmos, Atlanta Chiefs, Rodney Marsh and George
Best lasted 17 seasons.
In the years after the league folded in 1984,
the NASL was the benchmark set for professional
soccer in the United States.
That benchmark continued to exist after Major League Soccer was launched with the 1996
Professional Briefs
Red Bulls Hire Petke
The New York Red Bulls ended their search
for a new head coach by hiring former player
and assistant coach Mike Petke. Petke is the
latest American to be named head coach of a Major League Soccer team after playing professionally in the league. He joins D.C. United’s Ben
Olsen, New England’s Jay Heaps and Real Salt
Lake’s Jason Kries as one of the league’s “young
guns.”
Islanders Won’t Play
The early announcement said that the Puerto
Rico Islanders would take off the spring season
to reorganize and return for the second half of
the NASL’s 2013 split season. Turns out they
will take the entire year off to restructure their
operations and return to action in 2014.
The Islanders have been in the league for nine
years with much success as a club in the
CONCACAF Championship Leagues. The club
won the 2010 and 2011 Caribbean club championships.
New NASL Teams
The North American Soccer League took advantage of Indianapolis hosting the National
Soccer Coaches Association of America convention in January, and announced that Indianapolis would field a team in the league in 2014.
Heading up the Indianapolis team is former
Chicago Fire executive Peter Wilt.
The Calvary FC, based in Northern Virginia,
will come on board in 2014, along with the first
Canadian-based NASL franchise in Ottawa.
The NASL has been an eight-team league, but
drops to seven with Puerto Rico taking 2013 off.
The New York Cosmos will bring the league back
to eight in the second half of the 2013 season,
and the three expansion teams, plus the expected
return of the Islanders, will bring the league to
12 for the 2014 season.
Toronto Hires Ryan Nelsen
When Toronto FC hired Queens Park Rangers defender Ryan Nelsen as the team’s next head
coach, replacing Paul Mariner, Nelsen was still
a player for QPR.
Nelsen has never coached at any level. The
New Zealander does have an interesting collegiate playing record. He played for two years at
Greensboro College, a Division III school in
North Carolina. He completed his collegiate
career with two years at Stanford.
His professional career began with D.C.
United of Major League Soccer. He then moved
on to the English Professional League, while beginning a successful international career with
New Zealand’s National Team.
His starting time table to move to Canada took
a hit when QPR refused to release Nelsen from
his contreact before the EPL season was over,
and by then Major League Soccer would be a
couple of months into the season.
So how did Nelsen resolve the problem?
Simple. It had already been worked out between
the two clubs. QPR was working the market to
find a new center back to replace Nelsen, hoping to strike a deal before prices went up when
teams reralized QPR had a “need” rather than a
“want.”
All has been resolved, and Nelsen is with the
club and his career as a professional soccer coach
has gotten underway.
The 19 Major League Soccer Head Coaches On SuperDraft Day In Indianapolis
season with 10 teams.
There were lots of questions back then. Would
this league last 10 years? When would teams
start to disband? Would fans support the league?
Would MLS succeed financially?
Well, some of those questions have been answered.
The league did exist after 10 years. Only two
franchises have been folded, Miami and Tampa
Bay after the 1991 season. Those were desolved
by the league. One original franchise, San Jose,
eventually moved to Houston in 2006, but was
soon replaced by another Earthquakes expansion
team.
The league has grown to 19 teams, still has a
television contract and is poised to begin its 18th
season on March 2. So long to the NASL benchmark!
And how about the attendance. Didn’t the
NASL draw huge crowds of 60,000 or more?
Actually, the New York Cosmos did that with
its mega-star teams. The Cosmos averaged
47,856 in 1978, but the league never averaged
more than 14,440 (1980).
Actually, in the NASL’s second season the
league average attendance was only 2,930 in
1969. It was only in the ninth season (1976) that
the season league average topped 10,000.
The NASL Seattle Sounders averaged 8,181
in 1983. The Seattle Sounders of Major League
Soccer averaged 43,144 in 2012.
In 2012, Major League Soccer’s attendance average was 18,807, third best among major professional sports leagues in the United States behind the National Football League and Major
League Baseball. Better than the NBA and NHL.
While the NASL teams bled buckets of blood
as they tried to buy enough aging internationals
to compete with the Cosmos, Major League Soccer has been slow and steady.
The single enity of the league owning the
teams and player contracts, has not been without
its problems. Philip Anschutz, Lamar Hunt
and the Kraft family invested in multiple franchises to keep the league going in the first decade.
In recent years the Beckham rule, which allows for designated players who’s compensation
is not counted against a salary cap, have added
marque players like David Beckham and Henry
Theirry to the league. However, that compensation hasn’t broken the league.
Because of the league’s structure, you don’t
have ego-driven crazy spending to buy a championship team.
The Los Angeles Galaxy will open the 2013
season as the two-time defending MLS Cup
champions. Beckham is gone and will play in
France, but the core of the team returns.
D.C. United, winners of four league championships and the dominant team in the early years
of MLS, returned to the playoffs a year ago. Ben
Olsen, who played for D.C. United, has grown
as a young professional coach and now leads
United.
The common denominator between those early
D.C. United teams and today’s Galaxy is current
Los Angles coach Bruce Arena. He was D.C.
United’s first head coach before moving on to
eight years as the U.S. MNT coach.
So here comes season #18 for MLS. The
league is 19 teams strong, three of which are
based in Canada. New York is the next expansion target. The league has room to grow.....and
slow and steady gives MLS time to do just that.
Furman’s Walker Zimmerman To FC Dallas
2013 Major League Soccer SuperDraft
First Round
Second Round
1. New England Revs - Andrew Ferrell (Louisville), D
2. Chivas USA - Carlos Alvarez (UConn), MF
3. Toronto FC - Kyle Bekker (Boston College), MF
4. Vancouver Whitecaps - Kekuta Manneh (Austin Aztec), F
5. Vancouver Whitecaps FC - Erik Hurtado (Santa Clara), F
6. Colorado Rapids - Deshorn Brown (Central Florida) F
7. FC Dallas - Walker Zimmerman (Furman), D
8. Montreal Impact - Blake Smith (New Mexico), MF
9. Columbus Crew - Ryan Finley (Notre Dame), F
10. Seattle Sounders FC - Eriq Zavaleta (Indiana), F
11. Colorado Rapids - Dillon Powers (Notre Dame), MF
12. Real Salt Lake - John Stertzer (Maryland), MF
13. Houston Dynamo - Jason Johnson (VCU), F
14. Sporting Kansas City - Mikey Lopez (UNC), MF
15. San Jose Earthquakes - Tommy Muller (Georgetown), D
16. Toronto FC Emery - Welshman (Oregon State), F
17. D.C. United - Taylor Kemp (Maryland), D
18. Montreal Impact - Fernando Monge (UCLA), MF
19. Los Angeles Galaxy - Charlie Rugg (Boston College), F
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20. FC Dallas - Ryan Hollingshead (UCLA), MF
21. New England Revolution - Donnie Smith (Charlotte), MF
22. New York Red Bulls - Ian Christianson (Georgetown), MF
23. New England Revolution - Luke Spencer (Xavier), F
24. Los Angeles Galaxy - Kofi Opare (Michigan), D
25. Colorado Rapids - Kory Kindle (CSU Bakersfield), D
26. Philadelphia Union - Don Anding (Northeast), F
27. Montreal Impace - Paolo Delpiccolo (Louisville), MF
28. Coumbus Crew - Drew Beckie (Denver), D
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29. Real Salt Lake - Devon Sandoval (New Mexico), F
30. Chicago Fire - Yazid Atouba (Rainbow FC Barmenda), F
31. Philadelphia Union - Stephen Okai (Mobile), MF
32. Montreal Impact - Brad Stuver (Cleveland), GK
33. San Jose Earthquakes - Dan Delgado (San Diego), MF
34. Portland Timbers - Dylan Tucker-Gangnes (Washington), D
35. Seattle Sounders - Dylan Remick (Brown), D
36. New England Revolution Luis Soffner (Indiana), GK
37. Houston Dynamo Jimmy Nealis (Georgetown), D
38. Los Angeles Galaxy Greg Cochrane (Louisville), D
MLS, USL PRO Forge Unique Partnership
The USL Pro league and Major League Soccer announced a historic partnership, which will
be a boost to the MLS Reserve League. The
multi-year partnership allows direct affiliate partnerships between USL Pro and MLS teams.
Currently announced are direct affiliations
between the Richmond Kickers and
D.C. United, the Orlando City Lions and
Sporting Kansas City,
The Rochester Rhinos and New England
Revolution, and the
Harrisburg City Islanders and the Philadelphia
Union.
Southern Soccer Scene.......February 15, 2013
The affiliate partnerships provide that the
MLS team will make at least four reserve players available to their USL Pro partners on a longterm loan basis, thus giving those reserve players an opportunity to play on a regular basis.
All USL Pro teams will be paired with an MLS
team, and will play an interleague two-game
home-and-away series against the MLS club’s
reserve squad. Results of these games will count
in the USL Pro Standings and in the MLS Re-
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serve League standings.
The partnership is unique in that it is between the top Division I professional league
(MLS) in the United States and the third division USL Pro.
“The partnership represents the first step in a
long-term alliance between MLS and USL PRO
to connect domestic professional soccer through
a system that benefits player development competition and the overall business of our sport,”
said MLS Executive Vice president of Player Relations & Competition Todd Durbin.
The MLS clubs that have direct partnerships
with the USL Pro clubs and provide reserve players on loan, will not be required to field teams in
the Reserve League.
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Sports Medicine Corner
First Treatment Always The Same............PRICE!
By Dr. Don Kirkendall
I am not a physician. I’ve just had the good
fortune to work and watch a number of really great sports medicine docs at work on
the sideline, in the clinic, performing surgery,
doing research.
I’ve asked some of them what they wish
the public knew or understood about sports
injury that might help them get the athlete
back on the field more quickly. Their responses usually fall into one or more of four
categories.
Recognize and
act accordingly.
The longer one is
involved in a
sport, the more
one learns about
what constitutes
an injury and
what doesn’t.
Dr. Don Kirkendall
Some are
pretty obvious: visible bleeding, exposed
bone or obvious evidence that a fracture has
occurred, the unconscious player (who is
NOT to be moved), audible responses to extreme pain. All of those require medical attention (i.e., call 911).
In soccer, a lot of players experience contact and fall, but that doesn’t necessarily
mean an injury has occurred. Watch carefully to see the immediate reaction. A grim
face while rubbing a shin might just indicate
a minor contusion and the player gets back
up and in the play.
If the surrounding activity continues, however, ignoring the surrounding play is a good indication that something has happened that is more
important than what’s going on around the player.
Now what? Is the problem a sprain (ligament
injury), strain (muscle injury), contusion (bump
or bruise), abrasion (scraped skin)?
In general (there are some exceptions) the
first treatment is the same: PRICE-Protect, Rest,
Ice, Compression, Elevation.
Protect might be just getting off the field or it
might mean unweighting (e.g., crutches). Rest
means don’t return to play. Ice is the main modality of treatment. This could be a commercial
cold pack, an ice cup (water frozen in a paper or
Styrofoam cup), ice (cubed, crushed), or even a
package of frozen vegetables.
All (except the ice cup) can be tightly wrapped
using a elastic bandage. Finally, if the injury is
to a limb, Elevate the limb above the heart to
reduce the hydrostatic pressure that can make
swelling worse. One thing to remember: when
using some form of an ice bag, ice water is colder
than all ice and ice water ‘molds’ around the surface better than ice alone.
What About Heat?
The reasons behind why heat as a first treatment is not advisable have to do with the body’s
immediate responses. The injured tissue sends
out messengers that damage has occurred. One
of the body’s responses is a surge of inflammatory agents that are drawn to the site of injury.
Now some inflammatory cells are good, but too
much can extend the duration of the immediate
post-injury period and extend the time lost.
Adding heat allows more blood in the area
and more inflammatory agents. Cold limits this
excess blood flow leading to less of the inflammatory agents. Some believe that heat should
be reserved for mostly overuse injuries (no single
identifiable injury) or even later in the rehab process of an acute injury (but there is no consensus
on this application).
Seek Medical Evaluation For An Injury
Don’t self-diagnose. See a physician, preferably a sports physician. If there is no physician
present, don’t make any conclusion about the
extent or nature of the injury. What might appear to be a minor ankle sprain might be fully
torn ligaments, a fracture, cartilage damage, a
high ankle sprain. Any of those could involve
nerve or tendon damage, too.
Then there is the whole concept of rehabilitation and when to return to play. Let the MDs do
their job. So what if it costs you a co-pay.
Remember the mechanism. One of the most
important parts of the appointment at the doctor’s
office is the Q/A about how the injury happened.
Injury mechanisms are the bread crumbs that lead
the doctor to specific injury and helps focus attention on whether any extra tests are needed
(e.g., imaging), what other things might be causing the same signs (what the doctor sees) and
symptoms (what the patient experiences), and
what’s the best course of treatment.
Doctors frequently start out with a litany of
possible options and the Q/A allows the physi-
cian to toss out possibilities, narrowing in on
the actual diagnosis. Remember as many details as possible on how the injury occurred.
Realistic rehab expectations. Most injured
athletes have entirely unrealistic expectations
regarding return to play. Ankle sprain? Out a
week. Knee sprain? Maybe a couple weeks.
Concussion? Day or two at the most.
As Lee Corso says on ESPN’s football
GameDay, “Not so fast.” The doctor and
therapists are best positioned to determine
when an injury has healed. For many injuries, expect to be out longer, doing rehab for
longer, and maybe wearing some protection
for an extended period after feeling fine.
Were you aware that an ankle sprain
should be supported for up to six months after returning to play? Or that a substantial
proportion of injuries in any season are reinjuries of incompletely rehabed earlier injuries? And Adrian Peterson’s remarkable return to form after ACL surgery did physicians
no
See Kirkendall, Page 27
Editor’s note: Dr. Don Kirkendall , Southern
Soccer Scene’s longtime Sports Medicine columnist, is “member of FIFA’s Medical Assessment and Research Centre, F-MARC.” He is
also the author of the book The Complete
Guide To Soccer Fitness and Injury Prevention from UNC Press.
Copyright 2012 Donald T. Kirkendall
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Third Try At A League Launches This Spring
Dream Lives On With the National Women’s Soccer League
Sometimes it takes a couple of tries before you
get it right. Counts at hitting a moving tennis
ball or hitting a stationary golf ball.
It also counts in creating a successful women’s
professional soccer league.
The National Women’s Soccer League, which
will begin play in April with eight teams, is the
third try at a major women’s professional league
in the United States.
The first two failed for different reasons.
The first, the Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA) was well funded with major
media companies invested in eight teams.
That league ran through millions of dollars,
most in startup costs in the first year, and folded
after three seasons.
Next was Women’s Professional Soccer
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drawing board to the soccer field. The league
began with seven teams, and for three seasons
teams came and left.
Women’s Pro Briefs
That league also lasted three seasons. The
teams that won the first two WPS titles were gone
before the next season began.
The WPS began with a group of investor/owners who believed in the game, several with youth
soccer backgrounds, but without deep pockets
that would withstand financial losses.
Then there was the saga of the Washington
Freedom/MagicJack!
No guarantees that the NWSL will make a go
of it, but there are some differences that give hope
that the league is on a good path to success.
First, the league is being operated by the US
Soccer Federation, and also with the soccer federations of Canada and Mexico, the salaries of
select national team players are being underwrit-
2013 National Women’s Soccer League Draft
First Round
1. Zakiya Bywaters, F, Chicago Red Stats (UCLA)
2. Tiffany McCarty, F, Washington Spirit (Florida State)
3. Kristen Mewis, MF, FC Kansas City (Boston College)
4. Lindsi Lisonsbee-Cutshal, D, Sky Blue FC (BYU)
5. Casey Short, MF/D, Boston Breakers (Florida State)
6. Adrianna French, GK, WNY Flast (Oklahoma State)
7. Christine Nair, MF, Seattle Reign FC (Penn State)
8. Kathryn Williamson, D, Portland Thorns FC (Florida)
Second Round
1. Rachel Quon, D, Chicago Red Stars (Stanford)
2. Caroline Miller, F, Washington Spirit (Virginia)
3. Erika Tymrak, MF, FC Kansas City (Florida)
4. Kendall Johnson, D/MF, Sky Blue FC (Portland Thorns FC)
5. Maria Nogueira, MF, Boston Breakers (Stanford)
6. Amy Barczuk, MF, WNY Flash (Colorado)
7. Mallory Schaffer, MF, Seattle Reign FC (W&M)
8. Nicolette Radovcic, F, Portland Thorns FC (Central Florida)
Third Round
1. Taylor Vancil, GK, Chicago Red Stars (Florida)
2. Holly King, D, Washington Spirit (Florida)
3. Whitney Berry, MF/F, FC Kansas City (Kansas)
4. Ashley Baker, GK, Sky Blue FC (Georgia)
5. Jo Dragotta, MF, Boston Breakers (Florida)
6. Vicki DiMartino, MF, WNY Flash (Boston College)
7. Kristen Meier, MF, Seattle Reign FC (Wake Forest)
8. Amber Brooks, MF, Portland Thorns FC (North Carolina)
Fourth Round
1. Jennifer Hoy, F, Chicago Red Stars (Princeton)
2. Colleen Williams, F, Washington Spirit (Dayton Flyers)
3. Nia Williams, D, FC Kansas City (Missouri State)
4. Rebecca Kapla, MF, Sky Blue FC (Maryland)
5. Maddy Evans, D, Boston Breakers (Penn State)
6. Jaclyn Logue, D/MF, WNY Flash (Wake Forest)
7. Haley Kopmeyer, GK, Seattle Reign FC (Michigan)
8. Roxanne Barker, GK, Portland Thorns FC (Pepperdine)
W-League Opens In May
The Washington Spirit Reserves begin their
campaign under the national spotlight by hosting the New York Magic in the 2013 season
opener on Saturday, May 11th at the Maryland
Soccerplex. Match time is slated for 4:00PM.
The Bay Area Breeze join the 25-team league
in 2013, further strengthening the highly competitive Western Conference.
The W-League remains divided into three geographic conferences – Eastern, Central and Western – with the Eastern Conference featuring two
divisions, the seven-team Northeast and the fiveteam Southeast.
The Central Conference features six teams,
while the Western Conference has seven. WLeague clubs will play 10- or 12-game schedules in 2013, with teams facing each opponent
in their division home and away. Teams in the
Central Conference and Southeast Division will
play additional games vs. geographic rivals to
complete their schedules.
Opening day also features a divisional match
as the Virginia Beach Piranhas play host to the
Fredericksburg Impact. The opening weekend
continues with an important Southeast Division
matchup as the Carolina Elite Cobras play host
to the Atlanta Silverbacks.
The 2012 W-League champions, the Ottawa
Fury, begin their title defense on Saturday, May
25 when they travel to face Quebec City.
The final weekend of the regular season is set
for July 12-14, with 21 of the 25 teams in action
as the race for postseason spots winds down.
NWSL Supplemental
First Round:
1. Stephanie Ochs (Washington Spirit); 2. Nikki
Krzysik (Seattle Reign FC); 3. Joanna Lohman
(Boston Breakers); 4. Lindsay Tarpley (Chicago
Red Stars); 5. Katy Frierson (Sky Blue FC); 6.
Courtney Jones (FC Kansas City); 7. Estelle
Johnson (Western New York Flash); 8. Tina
Ellertson (Portland Thorns FC)
Second Round:
9. Tori Huster (Washington Spirit); 10. Lauren
Barnes (Seattle Reign FC); 11. Katie Schoepfer
(Boston Breakers); 12. Lauren Fowlkes (Chicago
Red Stars); 13. Brittany Cameron (Sky Blue FC);
14. Bianca Henninger (FC Kansas City); 15. Angela Salem (Western New York Flash); 16. Angie
Kerr (Portland Thorns FC)
Third Round:
17. Jordan Angeli (Washington Spirit); 18. Laura
Heyboer (Seattle Reign FC); 19. Bianca
D’Agostino (Boston Breakers); 20. Michelle
Wenino (Chicago Red Stars); 21. Coco Goodson
(Sky Blue FC); 22. Merritt Mathias (FC Kansas
City); 23. Kim Yokers (Western New York
Flash); 24. Michele Weissenhofer (Portland
Thorns FC)
ten by their respective federations.
For the rest, there is a modest salary cap. That
reduces salary espenses for each of the teams,
and since the league is operated out of the US
Soccer offices, it relieves the league from having to fund a league office.
Budgets are modest, promotions are
grassroots, expectations are reasonable, and the
belief that the success of the league lies with the
players and the individual eight clubs. Success
on the field is expected to drive the success of
the league.
Seven of the eight teams are placed in locations that have a solid history of women’s soccer
support. Kansas City is the one that has never
had a Division I professional women’s team.
The Boston Breakers, Chicago Red Star, Sky
Blue (NJ) and Western NY Flash are clubs from
either the WUSA or WPS, or both. The Washington Spirit returns to the home of the Washington Freedom, and Portland and Seattle were
cities that had success in the W-League.
The league gets underway on April 13, and
will conclude the regular season on August 18.
Teams will play a 22-game schedule. Most games
will be played on the weekend, or over holidays.
So Who Went Where In Allocation?
A total of 55 players from the American, Mexican and Canadian national team player pools
were split between eight National Women’s Soccer League teams.
Personal preferences were taken into consideration, and an effort was made to spread the talent and positions out as much as possible.
Not unlike the 21 players who were on the U.S.
1999 World Cup championship team who were
founding members of the WUSA, the current
group of U.S. players has plenty of personalities.
However, not all will be playing in the league
this year. Starting midfielder Megan Rapinoe
is playing with Lyon in France, and Tobin Heath
is also in France with Paris Saint Germain. Yael
Averbuch is playing in Sweden with
Kopparbergs/Goteborg. Rapinoe was allocated
to Seattle and might return to the U.S. at the end
of the French season.
U.S. defender Amy LePeilbet will miss 6-9
months after tearing her ACL, and Amy
Rogriguez, also allocated to Seattle, will miss
the season as she is pregnant with her first child.
So who looks good, and who doesn’t, going
into preseason?
Portland Loaded Up Front
With Alex Morgan and Canadian Christine
Sinclair on the roster, no other team can match
this offensive duo. Heath was a loss, but Thorns
FC got a solid goalkeeper
Karina
LeBlanc
from
Canada and a starting
U.S. defender in
Rachel Buehler.
Portland Thorns
FC has a rookie coach
in Cindy Parlow, but
she has vast experiAlex Morgan
ence as a U.S. player
at the highest level of the game.
FC Kansas City
While not spectacular, the allocation to Kansas City was very good, including U.S. backup
goalkeeper Nicole Barnhart, Lauren Cheney
and Becky Sauerbrunn. They also got a solid
international in Lauren Sesselmann from
Canada and Renae Cuellar from Mexico. The
other two are Mexico’s Marylin Diaz and
Canada’s Desiree Scott.
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Western New York Flash
The Flash was the only team to get only two
U.S. players on allocation, and were allowed an
extra pick in the
Supplemental draft.
They received the
USA’s leading goal
scorer,
Abby
Wambach, who will
be playing in her
hometown, along
with U.S. starter
Carli Lloyd, who is
an offensive threat
Carli Lloyd
from midfield.
The Canadians going to the Flash were
Bryanna McCarthy and Jodi-Ann Robinson,
and Veronica Perez and Pamela Tajonar from
Mexico.
Boston Breakers
Sydney Leroux is perhaps the most exciting
forward in the U.S. National Team behind
Wambach and Morgan. Veteran defender Heather
Mitts and midfielder
Heather O’Reilly
join a Breakers organized that played in
both the WUSA and
WPS.
Among the interSydney Leroux
national allocations,
the Breakers got Canadian veteran Rhian
Wilkinson, who played collegiate soccer at the
University of Tennessee.
Chicago Red Stars
The Red Stars left the WPS after one season,
but have maintained a franchise structure with
plans to return to the
field. Shannon Boxx
and Keelin Winters
are the U.S. allocations. LePeilbet was
another, but is out
with the knee injury.
The Red Stars got
Erin McLeod and
Carmelina Moscato
Shannon Box
from Canada and vet-
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eran forward Maribel Dominguez and Dinora
Garza from Mexico.
Seattle Reign FC
The Reign was a bit unlucky with their allocations. Rapinoe had already committed to Lyon
before the details of
the NWSL were announced. Rodriguez
and her husband expect a baby this summer.
Hope Solo was
the third American
allocation, so all’s
good in the goal.
Hope Solo
Help will come from
Canadians Kaylyn Kyle and Emily Zurrer,
while Mexico contributed Teresa Noyola and
Jenny Ruiz.
Sky Blue FC
The club launched as one of the original WPS
teams, and is coached by Jim Gabarra, who
coached the Washington Freedom in the
WUSA. He got U.S.
captain Christie
Rampone, Kelley
O’Hara and Jill
Loyden from the U.S.
team, and Sophie
Schmidt
and
Melanie Booth from
Christie Rampone
Canada. Monica
Ocampo and Lydia Rangel are from Mexico.
Rampone, the last active player from the ‘99
World Cup team, has played in all three leagues.
Washington Spirit
The Spirit didn’t get a lot of offense, but expects to be strong defensively with USA allocations GK Ashlyn Harris, Ali Krieger and Lori
Lindsey.
The Spirit got a
solid Canadian defender Robin Gayle,
along with veteran
midfielder Diana
Matheson. Alina
Garciamendez and
Teresa Worbis came
from Mexico.
Ali Krieger
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Soccer In Alabama
Brown, Okai Selected In MLS SuperDraft
Alabama Soccer
University of South Alabama women’s head soccer coach Graham
Winkworth has added Keyton Wheelock to his staff as an assistant
coach. Wheelock joins USA from Tusculum College in Tennessee,
where she served as an assistant coach since 2008.....The 2013 Annual
General Meeting (AGM) of the Alabama Youth Soccer Association is
set for February 23 at the Grand Hotel Marriott Resort Golf Club &
Spa in Point Clear, AL....Birmingham Southern has received a commitment from Dylan Rose, a senior at Ravenwood High School in
Tennessee. Rose has been selected to play for the Maccabi USA youth
men’s soccer team at the 19th World Maccabiah Games in Israel in
July. Over 60 countries, and more than 7,000 athletes, will participate
in the sporting event for Jewish athletes. Rose is a senior co-captain
for the Raptors......The 2013 Alabama Soccer Association adult State
Championships will be held March 23-24 at the Sicard Hollow Athletic Complex in Vestavia Hills. Competition will be held in D1 and D2 Men’s
Open, Men’s Over 30 and Men’s Over40 divisions, and Women’s Open. All except the D2 Men’s Open winners, will
advance to represent Alabama at the SubRegionals, may 18-19 in Tallahassee, FL).
Winners there advance to the Region III
finals, June 22-23 in Montgomery,
AL...Alabama has been awarded the US
Chris Bentley
Youth Soccer Region III Presidents Cup
for 2013, which will be held in Decatur, June 6-9. The US Youth
Soccer National Presidents Cup will be held in Aburndale, FL, July
10-14. The presidents Cup is for division II state cup winners, ages
U13-U17.....Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Todd Bramble has
announced a nine-player recruiting class for the fall of 2013 that included two early enrollees and six incoming freshmen. Among the
freshmen is Homewood’s Lauren Collins.....For the third year in a
row, Troy head coach Chris Bentley has been selected to be part of
the National Olympic Development Program (ODP) coaching staff.
Bentley will join other collegiate coaches for the annual USL Super
Y-League Olympic Development Program National Camp, held in
Bradenton, FL, at the IMG Academy campus from Feb. 28-March 3.
Former Mobile Teammates Linked Again
For two years Deshorn Brown and
Stephen Okai were a formidable onetwo scoring punch for the University
of Mobile’s men’s soccer team.
That combo was broken when
Brown transferred to the University of
Central Florida for the 2013 season.
Their names became linked once
again during the Major League Soccer
Combine in January, and during the
subsequent mid-month 2013 MLS
SuperDraft, held in Indianapolis, IN.
Brown, who left UCF after one season to sign a Generation adidas deal
with the league, was the sixth player
chosen, taken by the Colorado Rapids
with their first round pick.
Okai was selected 31st overall by
the Philadelphia Union in the second
round of the two-round SuperDraft.
Brown, a native of Jamaica, played
for Mobile in 2010 and 2011, scoring
53 goals with eight assists for 114
points.
He was a two-time first-team NAIA
All-American and SSAC Player of the
Year. He scored 32 goals in 2011 for
the Rams, and decided to move on to
Division I soccer.
He proved he could score at the
next level, and at Central Florida he
scored 13 goals in 16 games last fall.
He then decided it was time to move
on again. This time to a professional
career.
“I’ve always broken things down
to pro level, international level and
world class, and Deshorn has world
Lee Assistant Hired
By North Alabama
Deshorn Brown
Stephen Okai
Blazers’ Matte Is Drafted By Columbus Crew
How’s the old saying go about
the apple not falling far from the
tree.
That was sorta what Reed
Matte did after a stellar prep
career at John Carroll High
School when he decided to stay
home in Birmingham for his college career.
His father, Frank, played at
the University of Alabama Birmingham from 1983-84, and his
son decided that he wanted to
follow in his father’s footsteps.
And now as a UAB senior,
he is making footprints all his
own after
b e i n g
drafted by
the Columbus Crew
in the first
round of
the 2013
M a j o r
League
Reed Matte
S o c c e r
Supplemental draft.
Matte, a defender, was selected
ninth overall, and was the first of four
former Conference USA student-athletes to be picked in the supplemental
class speed and a world class
shot,” University of Mobile head
coach Roy Patton said. “I’ve
never said that about a collegiate
player before.”
Patton got to see a lot of Brown
for two seasons in practice and in
games. He saw all 32 goals he
scored as a sophomore. He had
nine multigoal games that season,
including fie against BrewtonParker.
While Brown may be the one
most ready to take the professional
step, Okai, who played four seasons at Mobile, is one with great
potential and still has room to
grow his game.
“Okai is a very interesting
player in that he has a lot of upside,” Patton said. “He still has a
couple of floors to go up and I
think he'll do that pretty quick.”
Okai, the 2012 Select Sport
America-NAIA Men's Soccer National Player of the Year was a
three-time NAIA All-American.
He earned first-team All-America
honors in 2010 and 2012 as the
Rams made deep runs at the NAIA
National Championship Tournament.
See Mobile Duo, Page 11
draft. Joining Matte is Marshall’s
Daniel Withrow (28th), Kentucky’s
Cam Wilder, and SMU’s T.J. Nelson
(64).
Matte is the 11th Blazer to be
drafted by the MLS, and the fifth in
the last three years.
He was one of the driving forces
of the Blazers’ back line, and also
scored a pair of goals in his senior sea-
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son , which ended with UAB's sixth
appearance in the NCAA Tournament in the last 14 years. The Blazers finished the season with a 108-2 record, and a 4-4 mark in conference action.
Matte played in all 20 matches
in 2012, and earned National Soccer Coaches Association of
America All-Midwest third-team
recognition, and was selected to the
All-C-USA Second Team and the
C-USA All-Academic Team.
For his career, he played in 59
games for UAB, starting 43 of
those.
Former Lee University assistant
coach Chris Walker has been
named the new head women’s
soccer coach at the University of
North Alabama.
Walker, a Lee graduate and
former player on the Flames men’s
team, has served as an assistant
with the Lee women’s team for the
past three years and helped lead
them to two NAIA National
Championships.
“Chris is a person of outstanding character and is an outstanding coach,” said UNA Athletic Director Mark Linder, in making
the announcement.
“He has recruited internationally and domestically in expanded
regions from our current footprint
and we feel he can head our program to continued success.”
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From Page 6
National Coach Of The Year
NCAA Division II Women
Joe Bartlinski, University of West Florida
A 2012 NCAA Division II Women’s Championship, a dominating win in the Gulf South
Conference Tournament finals, and an equally
impressive 24-1 record is what Bartlinski guided
the Argonauts toward in the 2012 season. The
Argonauts have earned an NCAA Tournament bid in almost every season under his
tutelage. His career record currently stands
at 203-27-14 overall and 83-4-1 in the Gulf
South Conference.
nament.
Junior College Division III Women
NCCAA Division I Women
Kristen St. Clair, California Baptist
St. Clair, in her sixth season as head of the
Lancer women’s program, has established herself as the winningest coach in program history.
The team’s 18-2-1 season culminated with an
NCCAA Division I Women’s Tournament title
and a PacWest Conference title. The playerturned-coach career record now stands at 9725-8 overall. This is St. Clair’s second-consecutive NSCAA National Coach of the Year honor.
NCCAA Division II Women
Mark Bates, Clearwater Christian (Fla.)
Bates and the Lady Cougars earned the NCCAA
Division II Championship title and wrapped up
the 2012 season with an 18-2 overall record. This
past season proved to be the most successful
for the program, as the 18-win total was the best
in its history. This is the Lady Cougars’ second
NSCAA national award of the season, as junior
Tori Hale was named the NSCAA National
Player of the Year.
Ruben Gonzalez, Cerritos College (Calif.)
Gonzalez has spent the last eight seasons with
the Cerritos College Falcons and compiled a
170-17-13 record and eight South Coach Conference titles. In 2012, the Falcon women’s program won its third state title and second national
championship. Cerritos finished the season 212-2 overall with an 11-2-1 in-conference mark.
High School Division I Girls
Randy Dodge, Aliso Niguel HS (Calif.)
Dodge spent more than 20 years with the Aliso
Niguel High School girls and boys soccer teams.
He also has the distinction of leading those teams
to 11 league championships and two state championships under his guidance. In March 2012,
Dodge’s team finished the season 22-1-5 overall and brought home the Southern California
Regional Girls Division I title.
High School Division II Girls
Steve Burgess, American Heritage (Fla.)
Burgess led the Patriots girls team to a 27-2-1
overall mark in 2012 and made its eighth consecutive appearance in the state championship
final. American Heritage won the title 5-0
against Bolles, to capture the title for the third
straight year and for the fifth time in the school’s
history.
West Florida’s Joe Bartlinski (C)
NCAA Division III Women
Mark Stauffer, Misericordia (Pa.)
Stauffer led the Cougar women’s program in a
memorable season as its 13th-year head coach.
The 2012 season marked for the Misericordia a
20-3-2 overall record, a Freedom Conference
Championship and an appearance in the NCAA
Tournament Final Four. It was the second
straight season the program at least appeared in
the conference tournament final and the NCAA
Tournament. Stauffe owns a 170-82-14 career record, including this season’s school
record 20 wins.
NAIA Women
Bill Bahr, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.)
Bahr led the Olivet Nazarene women’s team
through a memorable run in his 13th season as
head coach which concluded with an appearance in the 2012 NAIA National Championship
game. The Tigers finished the season 19-4-1
overall, undefeated at 11-0 in the Chicagoland
Collegiate Athletic Conference and became just
the fourth team in school history to advance to
the semifinal round of an NAIA National Tour-
Clearwater Christian’s Mark Bates (C)
Junior College Division I Women
Kacey Bingham, Paradise Valley CC (Ariz.)
Bingham closed out her final season as head
coach of the Paradise Valley women’s program
on a high note with an NJCCAA national championship, its second in three years. She also led
the Pumas to an unbeaten record of 23-0-1 overall. Bingham will now lead NCAA Division II
program, the Dixie State College Red Storm.
This is her second National Soccer Coaches
Association Of America Coach of the Year
award in her career.
American Heritage’s Steve Burgess(C)
Private/Parochial Girls
Troy Tokarchik, Bishop Kelley HS (Okla.)
Following a 4-1 win against Newcastle HS in
May 2012, Tokarchik and the Bishop Kelley
girls team earned their 13th state title in 14 years.
The Comets has also won 27 consecutive games
dating back to the 2011 season.
Jacksonville State Hires
Macdonald As Head Coach
Former Mississippi State coach
Neil Macdonald is the new women’s
head soccer coach at Jacksonville
State. Macdonald brings a 207-13719 15-year coaching record to the
Gamecocks program.
“We had a lot of interest in our
women’s soccer head coaching position and we are excited to have Neil
Macdonald join our Gamecock family,” said athletics director Warren
Koegel in announcing the appointment.
“He has coached and recruited in
one of the premier conferences in the
country and we feel tlike his success
and experience will take the soccer
program to the next level.”
Macdonald, a native of Inverness,
Mobile Duo
From Page 10
In 2010, the team advanced to the
semifinals, and last fall, the team was
national runner-up.
In 77 games with the Rams, the
Accra, Ghana native scored 20 goals
with 26 assists while patrolling the
midfield. He posted 10 goals and nine
assists this past season after scoring
goals and handing out 11 assists in
2011. Many of those assists were on
goals by Brown.
“He’s got a full bag of clubs as a
player, he can pass, dribble and finish,” Patton said. “A lot of people I
talked to commended his on-field leadership. He’s like a coach on the field
and he makes very quick and very
good decisions. He plays at a high
tempo, which is a prerequisite for playing in the pros.”
And the future for both? Only time
will tell for the former one-two punch
at Mobile.
Scotlnd, came to the U.S. in 1987 and
played four years at Augusta State before beginning his coaching career.
Neil Macdonald
US Youth Soccer
Award Winners
From Page 6
• TOPSoccer Buddy of the Year: Laura
Ellen Aspelund (Anchorage, Alaska)
• Female Recreation Coach of the Year:
Chris Thomas (Lawrenceville, NJ)
• Male Recreation Coach of the Year: Thomas Velek (Columbus, Miss.)
• Female Competitive Coach of the Year:
Larry Best (Vienna, Va.)
• Male Competitive Coach of the Year:
Mike Dean (Omaha, Neb.)
• Goal of the Year: Nikosi Burgess (Deer
Park, NY)
• Save of the Year: Luke Whelan
(Roswell, Ga.)
• Dr. Thomas Fleck Award: Bill Buren
(Satellite Beach, Fla.)
• Hall of Fame: David Messersmith
(North Texas)
• Hall of Fame: Larry Monaco (Virginia)
Law 12: Fouls And Misconduct
By Randy Vogt
Law 12 on Fouls and Misconduct is the
most important rule in soccer. Referees who
have played soccer have an initial advantage
in spotting fouls over those refs who never
played the game.
After all, the official who played knows
what a foul feels like and might even know
what a cautionable or sending off foul feels
like as well. But the referee who never played
the game certainly can learn
how to recognize
fouls as well.
In order to increase fouls and
misconduct recognition, officials
should
watch soccer
games, whether
Randy Vogt
on television,
video or live, and “referee” the game along
with the officials.
I cannot overemphasize how much
watching games actually helps officials.
Make it a point to watch the officials, especially their decisions, player manage-
ment, positioning, signals and communication
with each other.
Let me also stress that it is extremely important that the referee call the first foul so that it
does not lead to a second. For example, red #5
pushes blue #9 but nothing is called. You can
expect red #5 to be fouled later, most likely by
blue #9. Call the first foul and you will most
likely not have a retaliation foul.
After Goals Are Scored
Play becomes more physical and fouls often
occur after goals. The team that scored is energized and perhaps the team that gave up the goal
can be frustrated. Especially be on your toes after a goal.
Player Fatigue
It takes stamina to play (and to referee!) a sport
like soccer, which is a wonderful cardiovascular
exercise. You will soon recognize signs of players growing tired—players huffing and puffing
on the field or asking you how many minutes
are left in the half when there is a great deal of
time left.
As players fatigue, the game tends to become
easier to officiate as there can often be fewer
challenges on the ball and the fouls that are committed tend to be obvious. All because of tired
players.
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Consistency And What To Watch Out For
To establish game control during the first 15
minutes of a game, the referee should whistle
relatively minor offenses so that the slight push
does not become a bigger push a few minutes
later.
Officials acting decisively and correctly
for an important call, such as a penalty kick,
disallowed goal or caution, have done a terrific job and made the game much easier to
officiate than if this important call was
missed.
Referees often talk about the moment of truth
in the match when the control of the game was
hanging in the balance. The truth regarding this
“moment of truth” is that some games have them
and some do not.
Particularly in tough games, be a rhino––take
charge, be unafraid and have a thick skin.
Red card offenses are send-offs, whether they
occur in the third minute or the 90th minute. The
10 penalty fouls, when committed by the defense
inside the penalty area, are penalty kicks whether
they occur at the beginning of the game or the
end.
Referees who lack courage and give cautions
for what should be send-offs and move the ball
outside the penalty area for fouls that occur just
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inside it will have a tough time for the rest of
the match. Do not be surprised if the players,
realizing that no penalty kicks are going to
be called that day, turn the penalty area into
a war zone.
Conversely, the referee who is decisive
makes his/her job much easier the next time
assigned to referee the same team.
Think of attending a speech. The decisive
speaker who speaks looking directly at the
audience in enthusiastic tones can command
the room.
The speaker who looks down and
stumbles over words or speaks in a monotone or a whisper will make the audience
bored very quickly.
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matches in front of thousands to six-year-olds being cheered on by very enthusiastic parents. In
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Soccer In Florida
Revenge Is Sweet For Heritage-Plantation
Florida Soccer
Brian Dooley, head women’s soccer coach at Florida Atlantic for the
past 14 years, has resigned to accept the position of assistant women’s
coach at the University of Missouri. Also joining the Missouri coaching
staff is Katie Ely, who has been the assistant coach for goalkeepers the
past two seasons at Duke....The Florida Youth Soccer Association has
notified the Florida soccer community of the passing of Arthur “Arty”
Birnbaum, 61, who served as president of the Greater Boca Youth Soccer
Association and Region A as a whole for over 20 years. An advocate of
recreation soccer, Birnbaum, who lost his year-long battle with cancer,
was honored last December when Palm Beach County dedicated the
soccer fields in his name at Loggers’ Run Park in Boca Raton.....The
U15 Boys Sunrise Elite 97/98 and U-15 Girls Tampa Bay United have
secured sports in the US Youth National championships this summer
having qualified on their play in the US Youth National League....Florida
International men’s head coach Kenny
Arena welcomed two recruits at the start of
the spring semester. Nico Midttun comes
to FIU from Boca Raton where he played
center-midfield for Boca Raton HS.
Marvin Hezel is a center back from
Wadshut, Germany, where he played U-19
for SC Frieburg, the 2011 German Cup
champion.....University of Tampa alum and
former men’s soccer standout Pascal
Brian Dooley
Millien has won the Aittricity League championship in Ireland with the Sligo Rovers. The league title is the first for
Sligo since 1977. The Rovers have also confirmed that Millien has agreed
a new contract with the club. The Haitian international made 26 appearances in his first season with the Bit O’Red as he helped the Rovers to
the league title after joining from FC Tampa Bay.....Stetson University
women’s soccer coach Julie Orlowski has left her position as head coach.
Orlowski resigned after completed her 12th season at Stetson. Orlowski
was named the Hatters second head women's soccer coach in 2001, and
compiled an overall record of a 126-153-23. Her teams reached the Atlantic Sun Tournament each year from 2003-10 and advanced to the ASun title match in 2006. The 2012 team finished with a disappointing
record of 3-13-1.
Oviedo, Melbourne Win On PKs
Oviedo and Melbourne were extended
past overtime to win girls state championships, each winning the title with a
penalty kick shootout.
American Heritage Plantation, Trinity Catholic and St. Johns Country Day
sealed their FHSAA state titles in regulation.
PKs All The Way For Lions
Oviedo completed an exciting
postseason run with a pair of penalty
shootout victories. The Lions advanced
to the championship game with a 1-0
victory over East Lake (4-3 on PKs),
and then took the Class 5-A title by defeating Miami Lourdes 1-0 on a 5-3 PK
shootout.
“It’s a fabulous way to win and a
heartbreaking way to lose,” said Oviedo
coach Scott Waisanen, who lost a state
title in PKs in 2008 and won one in
2011. “It’s becoming all too familiar.
Mariah Mattingly had the gamewinner on the fifth and final kick in the
opening round of the shootout. Oviedo
spent a quarter hour of every practice
since January preparing for shootouts.
Oviedo finished the season with a 166-3 mark, while Lourdes, which allowed only one shot in 100 minutes of
play, finished 20-3.
Melbourne Rallies
Down a player, down a goal and facing a determined opponent as well as a
stiff wind, the Melbourne Bulldogs
looked defeat in the face, and said “not
this time.”
The Bulldogs got a goal in the 70th
minute of the second half to draw even
at 1-1. The game remained tied through
Florida Southern
Hires Sniegoski
2013 FHSAA 5-A Girls State Champions.....Oviedo High School
Seniors Drive Bolles Bulldogs To State Title
The Gulliver Prep Raiders
knew the task against the Bolles
Bulldogs would be difficult in the
FHSAA Class 2-A state championship game.
Nevertheless, they hoped to
pull off an upset. They nearly did
just that.
However, experience proved
to be too much, as senior Suneel
Madaliar struck the game-winner in the second half to give the
Bulldogs the title they had played
for all season long.
After back-to-back semifinal
losses the past two seasons, the
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Bulldogs felt
that
this
would be
their year to
win it all.
And
that
proved to be
true.
It was
Bolles’ first state soccer title since 2009,
and the run was fueled by 14 seniors.
“This is a goal that we’ve had not just
this year, but our whole high school careers, said Mudaliar. ‘We’ve always
wanted to get a state championship.
There’s nothing better to end our ca-
overtime and Melbourne made four
straight penalty kicks in the deciding shootout, while the George
Jenkins Eagles missed twice.
The 4-2 shootout edge gave
Melbourne the FHSAA 4-A girls
state title and an unbeaten (20-0-1)
season. George Jenkins, who
reached the title game with a
shootout win over Fleming Island in
the semifinals, finished (24-4-1).
It was the Bulldogs fourth state
title.
A penalty kick by Jenkins
midfielder Lauren Greene gave the
Eagles a 1-0 lead in the 50th minute
of play. Olivia DeJong got the
equalizer for Melbourne.
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reers.
Mudaliar’s goal came off a rebound
of a shot ripped by Adam Demetree
that was knocked down by Gullivar
Prep goalkeeper Esteban Spetnitzky.
“I just happened to be at the right
place at the right time,” said Mudaliar.
The shutout was the 22nd of the season for the Bulldogs, who finished 263-0 on the year. Demetree, a senior, led
the team in scoring with 44 goals and
10 assists, while another senior, Jay
Bolt, had 25 assists to go along with 16
goals.
Gulliver finished the season 19-3-3,
and had a more difficult run to the final
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than did Bolles.
The Raiders won by one goal
against Delray Beach American
Heritage, 3-2, in the second round,
and then was taken to overtime by
Ranson Everglades before coming
out with a 2-1 victory.
Against Bolles, Gulliver Prep
went down a player when junior
midfielder Jesus Bolivar received a
first-half red-card, forcing the Raiders to play with only 10 players the
rest of the game.
A difficult task against a team with
14 talented seniors became even
more difficult!
Ryan Sniegoski, an assistant
coach at Old Dominion University
the past eight years, has been hired
as Florida Southern’s new head
men’s soccer coach. The 2005 ODU
grad is the fifth head coach in the
57-year history of the Florid Southern program. He was the Monarchs’
top assistant the last three years.
“Ryan has been a great assistant
and a loyal Monarch and we will
miss him here at ODU,” said ODU
head coach Alan Dawson. “We are
very excited for him in becoming
the Florida Southern head coach and
we know he will be a huge success.”
Sniegoski helped ODU compile
a 95-45-19 record the past eight
years.
US Youth Soccer Awards
Two Floridians have been honored by US Youth Soccer with national awards. Bill Buren (Satellite
Beach, Fla.) was presented the prestigious Dr. Tom Fleck Award, while
Boca Raton’s Zoe Unger was
named US Youth Soccer’s National
Volunteer of the Year.
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First For Trinity Catholic, #5 For St. Johns Country Day
Sweet Revenge For Patriots
A year ago Ponte Vedra handed the
American Heritage Plantation Patriots
to a 2-1 loss in the FHSAA 3-A championship game. It was sealed by a 4-1
PK shootout.
Memories lingered for a year, and
when the two met for the 2013 championship the Patriots hung a 3-0 loss on
the Sharks to take the title and finish
2013 FHSAA 4-A Girls State Champions.....Melbourne High School
2013 FHSAA 3-A Girls State Champions....American Heritage Plantation
the season 26-2.
Seven minutes into the game
Melanie Monteagudo scored her 33rd
goal of the season for a 1-0 lead. Alyssa
Robinson made it 2-0 before halftime
with her 30th goal of the season.
Monteagudo added the third goal on
a second-half penalty kick. Goalkeeper
Jennifer Ocampo earned Heritage’s
23rd shutout of the season. The Patriots didn’t allow a goal in postseason
play, outscoring opponents 36-0.
Ponte Verdra finished 24-3-1.
Celtics Overwhelm Raiders
Ocala Trinity Catholic, behind a
three-goal outburst from senior Tabitha
Tindell, won the Class 2-A title with a
4-1 win over Gulliver Prep. It was Trinity Catholic’s first girls state title.
Gulliver (21-1-4) had not lost since
last year’s regional final.
Tindell, a Florida Gulf Coast University signee, finished the season with
52 goals, and had her fourth hat-trick in
postseason play.
Back -To-Back State Titles
The St. Johns Country Day Spartans
captured their fifth state Class 1-A
championship with a 3-1 win over Fort
Myers Evangelical Christian. It was the
first time the
Spartans
had ever
won backto-back state
titles.
Senior
midfielder
Mallory
Bane, who
Mallory Bane
is headed to
Rollins, got St. Johns (24-1) on the
scoreboard just before halftime with the
game’s first goal.
She set up the second goal when she
was taken down in the penalty box.
Senior Ellen Crist, who is going to FIU
this fall, made it 2-0 with a PK.
With about 10 minutes left to play,
junior Megan Rogers finished the third
2013 FHSAA 1-A Girls State Champions.....St Johns Country Day
goal for the final 3-0 score.
Evangelical junior Haley Pigott
scored the Sentinels’ only goal, her 75th
of the season. The Sentinels finished
26-2.
Keegan, Marcantel
NSCAA Prep POW
Will Keegan, a junior midfielder at
Pensacola Catholic High School
(Pensacola, Fla.) and Laura Marcantel,
a senior forward at St. Joseph’s Academy
(Baton Rouge, La.) were selected of Feb.
6 as the NSCAA National High School
Players of the Week.
Keegan lead Pensacola Catholic to
the District 1-2A championship with
a goal and two assists in the title game.
The junior midfielder was key in the
team’s 3-1 regional semifinal victory
with a goal and an assist.
Keegan finished the regular season
with 24 goals and four assists through
23 games.
Marcantel was vital in St. Joseph’s
push to finish as the top team during
the regular season. The senior forward
scored the winning goals in her last
two matches, both in the final 10 minutes of each match. Marcantel ended
the season with five game-winning
goals this season. The senior forward
finished the regular season with 17
goals and three assists.
Other female finalists included
Emma Bloom from Lake Highland
Preparatory School (Orlando, Fla.) and
Kacie Longo from South River High
School (Edgewater, Md.).
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Cypress Bay, Gulf Coast, Ponte Vedra,
Bolles, Tampa Prep Win Boys Titles
All of the five 2013 Florida State High School
Athletic Assocition’s boys state championships
were won by shutouts in regulation.
Cyrpress Bay (Weston) took the Class 5A title
with a 1-0 win over West Orange (Winter Garden). Daniel Gutierrez scored the game’s only
goal in the 26th minute off an assist from Breno
Ertty. With the win, Cypress Bay finished the
season with a 19-1-4 mark. West Orange was
19-2-4.
The 4-A championship was won by Gulf Coast
(Naples) with a 2-0 victory over George
Steinbrenner (Lutz). Clayton Curvin’s eighthminute goal proved to be the game-winner. Rin
Van made it 2-0 in the second half. Both Gulf
Coast fand GSHS finished the season 19-3-3.
Ponte Vedra captured the 3A state title with a
2-0 win over American Heritage (Plantation).
Both goals came in the second half from Michael
Parado and Ben Fredericks.
Bolles got the 2A championship on a secondhalf goal by senior Suneel Madaliar to edge
Gulliver Prep (Pinecrest), 1-0.
Tampa Prep ended Hillel (North Miami Beach)
hopes for its first state title by beating the Hustlers, 1-0 on a goal by Shaddy Douldar midway
through the game’s second half. Tampa Prep finished unbeaten 23-0-3, while Hillel was 18-2-1.
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Tab Ramos had hoped to have Marc Pelosi
available for the U.S. Under-20 team in
CONCACAF Under-20 World Cup qualifying.
However, his professional EPL club, Liverpool,
would not release him. Now he will miss the
World Cup even if the Americans qualify.
Pelosi suffered a broken tibia and fibula in
his right leg while playing for Liverpool’s U19 team. The injury was confirmed by Pelosi’s
agent Richard Motzkin, who called it a clean
break that would require surgery.
It was a major setback for Pelosi who was
recently added to Liverpool’s Europa League
roster, which is a strong sign that he was impressing the first-team coaches.
Two Points Well Taken
Speaking of broken legs, Pelosi’s injury calls
to mind the broken leg Stuart Holden suffered
in 2011, from which he is just coming back.
Both were the result of flagrant tackles. Hoilden
finally returned to the field for Bolton in the
EPL coming in as a 16-minute substitute in a 20 win over Sunderland.
It has yet to be determined if Holden can recover to be a 90-minute player again, and a
midfielder who can contribute at the National
Team Level. The U.S. could use his energy and
speed in the midfield.
Klinsmann’s Salary
With the U.S. Men’s National Team producing less than stellar results the first two times
out in 2013, there have begun discussions on
whether or not U.S. National Team Coach
Jurgen Klinsmann is worth what he is being
paid. Klinsmann’s annual pay has been reported
to be in the neighborhood of $2.5 million, far
more than the salaries of Bob Bradley and
Bruce Arena, who preceded him as national
coach.
Actually, it’s a little early to begin criticism
of Klinsmann’s tenure. There are nine games
left in the final round of World Cup qualifying.
As as far as the $2.5 million, that is less than
half what another American football coach is
making....Alabama’s Nick Saban.
But that’s another sport, and with different
results!
U-18 MNT To Europe
The U.S. Under-18 Men’s National Team
will gather for the first time since late November of 2012 to take part in a 10-day trip, from
March 15-25 to France and Romania. The trip
will include three matches. First the U.S. U-18s
will face France in Clairefontaine, outside of
Paris on March 19. Then they will head to Romania for a double fixture with the Romanians
on March 22 and 24 in Bucharest. U-18 head
coach Javier Perez’ 20-player roster for the trip
will be released shortly.
The U.S. U-18 MNT last played in two fixtures against Canada during their training camp
at the end of last year. The U.S. U-18s came
away with a 3-1 victory and a come-from-behind 2-2 draw against the Canadians to finish
up their 2012 campaign.
U.S. Under-17 MNT Loses
The U.S. Under-17 Men’s National Team
took on Nike’s The Chance Team in a domestic
friendly at The Home Depot Center. Behind a
first half brace by Bubakary Sonko, who was
assisted by Development Academy product
Brian Iloski on both goals, The Chance took a
2-0 lead into halftime.
The U-17’s got on the score sheet with an
own goal in the 58th minute but The Chance
responded with a Marco Di Lauro tally in the
65th minute for a 3-1 lead.
Rubio Rubin tallied a brace with goals
in the 71st and 83rd minutes to tie the score
at 3-3. However, Saifeddine Alami Bazza’s
89th-minute tally put The Chance up for
good at 4-3.
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The result in Honduras wasn’t what U.S.
soccer fans expected. A difficult game, yes,
but a loss?
That kick started the final round of qualifying for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The 21 loss left the U.S. at the bottom of the sixteam standings.
That’s the bad thing. The good thing is only
Honduras won their opener. Mexico and Jamaica tied in Mexico City, and Costa Rica and
Panama also drew.
Jamaica’s scoreless draw at Azteca Stadium
in Mexico City was as surprising as the USA’s
loss. The reality is Mexico and Jamaica, considered to be contenders for one of the top
three spots in the final standings did not gain
much of an advantage over Jurgen
Klinsmann’s team.
Expectations were high for the U.S. after
Clint Dempsey got an early goal for a 1-0
U.S. lead. That did not last long.
A brilliant bicycle kick gave Honduras the
equalizer. However, that should never have
happened. Lack of pressure on the service
resulted in the goal being scored.
The game-winner with eight minutes left in
the second half came on a total defensive blunder by defenders Jeff Cameron and Omar
Gonzalez, and goalkeeper Tim Howard.
Howard came off his line and didn’t get to
a ground ball, Cameron didn’t clear, and
Gonzalez failed to cover the goal on an easy
tap into an open goal.
The U.S. defense has been suspect for a long
time. Klinsmann took this game to start
Cameron and Gonzalez in the middle. Maybe
long term it has potential, but in the moment
inexperience ruled the moment.
Steve Cherundolo is injured and is expected
to miss the game against Costa Ricao on March
22 in Commerce City, Colorado. But Tim
Chandler started against Honduras, and was
expected to be a very capable replacement.
However, Chandler played poorly. Next
time out he has to play better, and expectations are that he will do well.
Then there is the “Where’s Landon
Donovan” question. The all-time leading
scorer is taking some time away from the
game. There was a question of whether he
would retire from the game at age 30.
It appears now that he will come back to
play for the Los Angeles Galaxy this season,
and also with the U.S. MNT. However, he
has negotiated an arrangement that allowed
his to remain out of the Galaxy preseason until the end of March.
That means he will not be playing in Com-
merce City on March 22.
It was obvious in Honduras that the U.S.
missed Donovan. Klinsmann needs him on
the field, and needs for Donovan to play well.
The U.S. forwards will also need to improve
their efficiency in finishing scoring opportunities. Jozy Altidore is tearing it up in Holland, and both Chris Wondolowski and Eddie
Johnson score goals in bunches in MLS, but
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Pelosi Suffers Broken Leg
A Win Against Costa Rica Critical For U.S. Men’s National Team
USA’s Clint Dempsey (#8) About To Have His Legs Tackled Out From Under Him In 2-1 Loss To Honduras
not so much with the national team.
In fact, Wondolowski, one of the top goalscorers
in MLS over the past 5-6 seasons, has never scored
a goal for the USA. He has had his chances with
nine national team appearances.
Maybe it would be a good idea to put Hercules Gomez back in the lineup. If Donovan
isn’t back soon, a player like Jose Torres
might be able to find the forwards with his
vision and ability to deliver an effective pass.
Finally, the dilemma continues in the
middle of the field where Klinsmann has
played three defensive midfielders. Michael
Bradley and Jermaine Jones can both get forward into the attack. Doing that will be critical against Costa Rica.
Costa Rica, like Honduras, will be a difficult opponent. But this time we are playing
at home. In recent years, home games have
actually drawn home support. The U.S. has
done well at home, and after all the blueprint
for advancement is will all your games at
home, and pick up some points on the road.
After Costa Rica comes road trips to
Mexico City and Jamaica. The U.S. will need
a confident team to get positive results in those
games. Winning breeds confidence.
Klinsmann’s team has had some positive
results over the past year. Wins in Italy, at
Azteca in Mexico City and in Russia. Those
results have been impressive.
But the U.S. has started 2013 with a scoreless draw against Canada and the loss to Honduras. Klinsmann didn’t have his A roster
against Canada, but he did in the loss.
Put it all in perspective. As bad as the U.S.
played, they could have won. Actually, probably should have won. They can’t play that
bad next time out.
CONCACAF U-20 Championship
Ramos Poised To Lead U.S. Under-20s To World Cup Berth
Tab Ramos has been involved in big competitions as a player, and now faces a big challenge as a coach.
Ramos leads the U.S. Under-20 Men’s
National team into the CONCACAF U-20
Championship In Puebla, Mexico.
At stake is a berth in the 2013 FIFA World
Cup later this summer in Turkey. The U.S. will
open against Haiti on Feb. 18 All U.S. matches
can be seen live on Fox Soccer channel.
“I believe we’re as ready as we can be”
Ramos said of
the way his team
has prepared.
“We’ve had
eight camps already (this past
year) and in this
particular group
we have guys
who have all
been here (in
Mexico) before.
Tab Ramos
“We have
players who are prepared and we’ve had a
couple of great weeks of training. We are training in great facilities, playing in an excellent
stadium, the temperature should be OK, so
there are really no excuses for us but to do the
best we can and try to get to this first game.”
Following the Haiti game the U.S. will take
on Costa Rica on February 22.
The U.S., Haiti and Costa Rica are in Group
A, while Canada, Cuba and Nicaragua are in
Group B. Group C includes Jamaica, Panama,
and Puerto Rico. Group D features Curacao,
El Salvador and Mexico.
The top two teams advance to the
quarterfinals, which is the most important
round in the tournament. That is because the
top four teams will advance to the World Cup.
This year marks the 24th occasion in which
the U.S. U-20 MNT is competing in the
CONCACAF Youth Tournament or Championship. The USA is looking to qualify for its
13th FIFA U-20 World Cup.
Ramos’ roster is a blend of young professionals and top collegiate players, including
several Generation adidas signees who were
drafted by MLS teams in January.
Ramos is looking to the more experienced
players for leadership during the regional
qualifyinig.
“It is very important for us that the guys
who have been associated with this particular
age group – guys like Luis Gil, Jose
Villarreal, Mario Rodriguez, Caleb Stanko,
who’s a leader on the team, and Cody Cropper, who has been here before - are really up
to task when game time comes and that they’re
the ones who lead the way for us to get to the
Midfielder Mikey Lopez and defender Boyd
Okwuonu lead the team in appearances with
11 games apiece heading into the tournament.
On opening with Haiti, Ramos commented,
“They’re a very technical team. They move a
lot without the ball and they’re very honest
workers on the ball and without it.
“The key is going to be in us trying to keep
the ball away from their two central
midfielders. They keep the ball well and they
distribute for the whole team. If we can win
our matchup in the middle of the field, we’re
going to be in good shape.”
next round,” said Ramos.
Villarreal is the leading goal scorer on the
team with four goals in six U-20 MNT
matches heading into the tournament.
US. Under-20 MNT Roster
U.S. Women Sweep Scotland
The U.S. Women’s National Team got 2013
off to a good start with a pair of international
friendly victories over Scotland. The first was
a 4-1 win in Jacksonville, FL, followed by a
3-1 win in Nashville, TN.
The games were the first under the direction of new WNT coach Tom Sermanni, who
incidentally is a native of Scotland.
Christen Press debuted in the first game
and scored a pair of goals, Abby Wambach
earned her 200th cap in Nashville.
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Corner Kicks
Are You Talking To Me?......Scotland’s Joanne Love And USA’s Alex Morgan (#13)
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Goalkeepers (3): 1-Cody Cropper (Southampton;
Maple Grove, Minn.), 12-Kendall McIntosh (Santa
Clara; Santa Rosa, Calif.), 22-Zack Steffen (FC
DELCO Academy; Downington, Pa.) Defenders
(6): 18-Eric Miller (Creighton; Woodbury, Minn.),
3-Juan Pablo Ocegueda (C.D. Guadalajara; Riverside, Calif.), 2-Boyd Okwuonu (North Carolina;
Edmund, Okla.), 5-Shane O’Neill (Colorado Rapids; Boulder, Colo.), 4-Caleb Stanko (Freiburg;
Holly, Mich.), 14-Javan Torre (UCLA; Santa
Monica, Calif.) Midfielders (5): 10-Luis Gil (Real
Salt Lake; Garden Grove, Calif.), 8-Benji Joya
(Santos Laguna; San Jose, Calif.), 15-Mikey Lopez
(Sporting Kansas City; Mission, Texas), 16-Dillon
Serna (Colorado Rapids; Brighton, Colo.), 6-Wil
Trapp (Columbus Crew; Gahanna, Ohio) Forwards
(6): 19-Brandon Allen (Georgetown; Old Bridge,
N.J.), 20-Daniel Cuevas (Santos Laguna; Sacramento, Calif.), 17-Danny Garcia (North Carolina;
Dallas, Texas), 11-Jerome Kiesewetter (Stuttgart;
Berlin, Germany), 9-Mario Rodriguez
(Kaiserslautern; North Hollywood, Calif.) 7-Jose
Villarreal (LA Galaxy; Inglewood, Calif.)
★★★★★
★★★★★
U.S. Women Set To Meet
Pia’s Sweden In Algarve Cup
The U.S. Women’s National team has had
a lot of success at the Algarve Cup in Portugal. The Americans have won the tournament
eight times.
The tournament, which doesn’t attract a lot
of attention in Portugal, usually attracts most
of the top women’s national teams in the
world.
This year the U.S. WNT has been placed in
Group B, where it will face Iceland, China and
Sweden during the tournament that will run
from March 6-13.
The USA will open its competition on
March 6 against Iceland, then face China on
March 8 and Sweden on March 11 to finish
group play with the first meeting between the
teams since former U.S. head coach Pia
Sundhage assumed the head coaching duties
for her home country.
Group A will feature Germany, Denmark,
Japan and Norway. The three nations that will
join host Portugal in Group C
are Hungary,
Wales
and
Mexico
The 2013
Algarve Cup
will be the 20th
edition of the
tournament that
has grown into
one of the
world’s top
Sweden’s Pia Sundhage
competitions
for women’s national teams. The tournament
features the top three teams in the FIFA
Women’s World Rankings in the USA, Germany and Japan, respectively, as well as Sweden (#6), Norway (#12), Denmark (#13), Iceland (#15) and China (#17).
This year will mark the 18th trip to the
Algarve Cup for the U.S. Women, who have
won the tournament a record eight times, including an unprecedented three straight championships from 2003-05.
Last year, the USA lost to Japan 1-0 in
group play (which turned out to be the team’s
only loss of the year) and missed the championship game for the first time in 10 years, but
rebounded to defeat Sweden 4-0 in the thirdplace match behind Alex Morgan’s first career hat trick and a goal from Abby
Wambach, her team-leading 18th goal alltime in Algarve Cup play.
The USA has a 49-10-8 record all-time at
the Algarve Cup and has scored 147 goals
while allowing 53.
All the games will be played at small venues across the Algarve region on the southern
coast of the country. Placement matches will
take place on March 13.
For the first time ever, fans back home will
be able to watch the USA’s Algarve Cup
matches via the Internet, albeit on a tape-delayed basis.
Hall Of Fame Balloting
Ballots have been distributed to a panel of
voters for the National Soccer Hall of Fame
Class of 2013 elections. The voting process
began in January for the Player, Veteran Player
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and Builder categories. Voting will continue
through Feb. 22, and the election results will
be announced shortly after. The induction of
the Class of 2013 will be announced later.
Players in their first year of eligibility include two-time MLS champion midfielder
Wade Barrett,
two-time WNT
Olympic gold
medalist Angela
Hucles, former
MLS Rookie of
the Year and
MNT veteran
Ben
Olsen,
2002
MNT
World Cup defender Tony
Sanneh and
Hank Steinbrecher
2005 MLS MVP and former Men’s National
Team forward Taylor Twellman.
“We are excited to begin the process of selecting the National Soccer Hall of Fame Class
of 2013 later this year,” said Hank
Steinbrecher, Chairman of the HOF’s BOD.
“The Hall of Fame is the most prestigious
honor among the Player, Veteran and Builder
candidates who dedicated themselves to the
sport. As usual there is a great mix of returning candidates and new names who are worthy of this award.”
Of the 22 total players on the Player ballot, Mauricio Cienfuegos, Roy Lassiter and
Tisha Venturini-Hoch are in their final year
of eligibility.
Election Criteria
In order to be eligible for election as a Player,
an individual must be retired as a player for at
least three years, but for no more than 10 years
and have either: 1) Played in at least 20 international games for the U.S., or 2) Played at least
five seasons in an American first division professional league and named to a postseason AllLeague or All-Star team at least once.
Who Gets To Vote
The voting pool includes all past and present
full Men’s and Women’s National Team
coaches, all active MLS and NWSL head
coaches with a minimum of four years of experience as a head coach in a first division
league, MLS and NWSL management representatives, MLS Commissioner, NWSL Executive Director, U.S. Soccer CEO/Secretary
General, U.S. Soccer President, designated
media members, and all Hall of Famers.
Each voter can list up to 10 candidates per ballot. Any player appearing on at least 66.7 percent
of ballots will earn election, while any player who
does not appear on at least five percent of ballots
will be dropped from the Player ballot.
2013 National Soccer HOF Player Ballot
Chris Armas, Wade Barrett *, Mauricio
Cienfuegos^, Raul Diaz Arce, Marco
Etcheverry, Lorrie Fair, Robin Fraser, Chris
Henderson, Angela Hucles *, Jason Kreis, Roy
Lassiter^, Shannon MacMillan, Joe-Max
Moore, Victor Nogueira, John O’Brien, Ben
Olsen *, Cindy Parlow, Ante Razov, Tiffany
Roberts, Tony Sanneh *, Taylor Twellman *,
Tisha Venturini-Hoch^
* First year of eligibility ^ Final year of
eligibility; moves to Veteran ballot in 2014
Corner Kicks
U.S. U-23 WNT In Spain
The U.S. Under-23 Women’s National Team
will open its 2013 campaign with a challenging
trip to La Manga, Spain, from Feb. 22-March 5
where the squad will take on the U-23 sides of
Norway, England and Sweden.
U.S. head coach Randy Waldrum will bring
a 20-player roster featuring top collegiate players and young pros. Three players on the roster
– defender Julie Johnston, midfielder Kristie
Mewis and forward Zakiya Bywaters – will
be coming off almost two weeks of training with
the full Women’s National Team that resulted
in Johnston and Mewis earning their first senior team caps against Scotland on Feb. 9 in
Jacksonville, Fla.
The roster features eight players from the
U.S. team that won the 2012 FIFA U-20
Women’s World Cup in Japan, including
Johnston, who captained the side and won the
Bronze Ball as the third-best player in the tournament, as well as the teams’ dynamic centermidfield trio of Morgan Brian (Virginia),
Vanessa DiBernado (Illinois) and Sara Killion
(UCLA). DiBernardo scored in the 2-1 victory
against Korea DPR in the quarterfinal and Brian
scored in the 2-0 victory against Nigeria in the
semifinal.
The U-23 tournament also reunites sisters
Kristie Mewis (who will turn 22 in a few
weeks) and UCLA’s Samantha Mewis (who is
20 years old). The siblings made history when
they became the first sisters to represent the
USA in a Women’s World Cup, doing so twice,
at the 2008 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in
New Zealand and the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women’s
World Cup in Germany.
The U.S. U-23s will play Norway on Feb.
28, Sweden on March 2 and finish up the fourteam tournament against England on March 4.
U.S. U-23 WNT Roster :
Goalkeepers (2): Jami Kranich (Villanova; Hamden,
Conn.), Abby Smith (Texas; Dallas, Texas). Defenders (8): Natasha Anasi (Duke; Arlington, Texas); Julie
Johnston (Santa Clara; Mesa, Ariz.), Kassey Kallman
(Florida State; Woodbury, Minn.), Camille Levin
(Göteborg FC; Newport Coast, Calif.), Lindsi Lisonbee
(Sky Blue FC; Provo, Utah), Toni Pressley (Ryazan
VDV; Melbourne, Fla.), Casey Short (Boston Breakers; Naperville, Ill.), Courtney Verloo (Stanford;
Tualatin, Ore.). Midfielders (6): Morgan Brian (Virginia; St. Simon’s Island, Ga.), Zakiya Bywaters (Chicago Red Stars; Las Vegas, Nev.), Vanessa DiBernardo
(Illinois; Naperville, Ill.), Sarah Killion (UCLA; Fort
Wayne, Ind.), Kristie Mewis (FC Kansas City; Hanson,
Mass.), Samantha Mewis (UCLA; Hanson, Mass.).
Forwards (4): Morgan Marlborough (Santa Clara;
Raymore, Mo.), Tiffany McCarty (Washington Spirit;
Laurel, Md.), Stephanie Ochs (Washington Spirit; San
Diego, Calif.), Havana Solaun (Florida; Gainesville,
Fla.)
U17s Draw With Germany
The U.S. Under-17 Women’s National Team
played Germany’s Under-17 WNT to a pair of 1-1
draws during a January training camp in Carson,
California.
In the opening game the U.S. fell behind early,
but came back to tie the match when Tegan
McGrady crossed the ball to Ella Stevens who
struck a full-volley from nine yards out that deflected
off the hands of German goalkeeper Julia Gornovitz
and into the goal. Midfielder Stevens scored the U.S.
goal in the second game, putting the U.S. up 1-0 in
the seventh minute of the game.
Two New U-17 Hires
U.S. Soccer has announced the hiring of B.J.
Snow as head coach of the U.S. Under-17
Women’s National Team and April Kater as
Head Development Coach.
Both positions are full-time as U.S. Soccer
continues to invest in the continued growth and
development of its Youth Women’s National
Team program. U.S. Soccer Women’s Technical Director April Heinrichs and Women’s
Youth Development Director Jill Ellis, were the
first full-time positions hired by U.S. Soccer a
year ago.
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Soccer In Georgia
Georgia Native ‘Owns’ A Spot In The Back
Georgia Soccer
Chris Davidovicz has been named the new head coach of the University of West Georgia women’s soccer program. Davidovicz comes to
UWG after two seasons as head coach at Thomas
University.....Kennesaw’s Jane Campbell (Concorde Fire South) was
one of five goalkeepers called up by new U.S. WNT coach Tom
Serminni for training before playing Scotland in a pair of international friendlies to kick off the 2013 season. Campbell, the youngest
player in camp, sent a week with the full national team before returning to classes at the Darlington School.....The results of the election
during the recent Georgia Soccer AGM for General Council were:
Russel Ramlemburg (President), Jim Smith (Independent Director)
and Scott Moran (Independent Director). Election results in the Adult
Council were: Andrew Egan (Director of Adult Competition and Peggy
Pruitt (Playing Athlete). Youth Council election results were: Bryan
McDermott (VP-Youth) and Juan
Castillo
(Director
of
Youth
Recreation)....For the sixth time in his
career, Armstrong Atlantic State University head women’s soccer coach Eric
Faulconer was named the 2012 NSCAA
Women’s Soccer Southeast Region Coach
of the Year and was recognized at the
NSCAA Convention in Indianapolis in
mid-January. Pirates’ senior forward
Chris Davidovicz
Morgan Mitchell (Lilburn, GA) and senior defender Emily Cattanach (Fort Myers, FL) earned NSCAA
Scholar All-America honors. Mitchell was on the first team, and
Cattanach was on the third team list....Kennesaw State coach Rob
King has an eight-player addition to his soccer program for the fall,
that includes six incoming freshmen and a pair of transfers. The transfers are defenders Elizabeth Johnson (Marietta) from Georgia and
Brittney Reed (Kennesaw) from Florida. Johnson played in 13
matches last fall at Georgia. Reed, a Venice HS grad, didn’t see action last fall for the Gators....Sophomore midfielder Carl-Oscar
Andersson has decided to leave the Mercer men’s soccer program to
sign a professional contract with Falkenbergs FF, which is a member
of the Superettan, the second highest pro league in Swedish football.
The Kelley O’Hara Experiment
Georgia’s Kelley O’Hara just
wanted to get on the field. So when
former U.S. WNT head coach Pia
Sundhage and her staff proposed a position change for the beginning of
2012, O’Hara said, “sign me up, when
do I start?”
But the USA needed a left back.
O’Hara is right-footed. And oh yeah,
she’d never played in the back before,
at any level for any team.
Consider also that O’Hara, who
grew up in Fayetteville, GA, and
starred at Starrs Mill HS, won the
MAC Hermann Trophy as college
soccer’s top player as a Stanford senior in 2009 and finished her career
with 57 goals and 32 assists, both
school records.
She was also one of the top attacking players over her Youth National
Team career, scoring 24 goals in 35
U-20 international matches, one of the
best totals in U.S. history. She scored
See Gold Medal, Page 17
Georgia Dome Host
Gold Cup Game
Kelley O’Hara Celebrating An Olympic Gold Medal Victory
Expectations High In 2013 For Silverbacks
The Atlanta Silverbacks’
solid finish to the 2012 USL
Pro season has given the
offseason a feeling of anticipation and expectation for what
2013 might bring.
Over the last nine games of
the 2013 regular season, no
other team in the league was
better than the Silverbacks,
who had only one loss in those
nine games.
During the offseason, coach
Brian Haynes was given a contract extension, fans decided to
keep the Silverbacks name, but
part of Atlanta soccer for 16 years, has
been added as an assistant coach.
Defender Chris Klute, who joined
Atlanta on loan from the MLS Colorado Rapids late in the season, will not
be back. Neither will forward Matt
Horth, who scored 18 goals in 49 appearances with the Silverbacks. He
has signed an Major Soccer League
contract with the New England Revothe logo has changed. Many of the key
players who were on the roster for last
year’s finish are expected to be back
for another season.
Franklin McIntosh, who has been
twice in the 2006 FIFA U-20
Women’s World Cup as one of the
younger players on the team.
The challenge was daunting.
The change was radical. Talk
about getting pulled out of your
comfort zone.
“The most uncomfortable part
was that I’d never been on that
particular patch of grass before
facing that direction,” said
O’Hara.
“Over my entire soccer career,
I was always getting the ball near
half field, back to goal or running
onto the ball in the attacking third,
but not once in my life had I stood
in that spot on the field and received a pass with the intention
of getting the ball forward. And
then there was the defending
part.”
O’Hara underwent an intensive course of “defending and attacking from left back” and although it took a few games, she
grew into the role. She says she
didn’t start to feel truly comfortable until the summer trip to Sweden for matches against Sweden
and Japan, but then things started
to click.
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Among the returning Silverbacks
are midfielder Pablo Cruz and forward Jahbari Willis. The club also
signed defender Mark Bloom, who
played last season with the Charlotte
Eagles. Bloom played collegiate
soccer at Berry College.
A key addition was the signing of
Richie Menjivar, who was born in
Panorama City, CA. Hecomes on
loan from Salvadoran club Turin FC.
He represented the U.S. at the U-18
level in 2008, before being called into
El Salvador’s Olympic qualifying
See Wynalda, Page 17
Atlanta is one of 13 cities that
will host games in the CONCACF
Gold Cup this summer. The Gold
Cup will feature 12 teams, including the U.S., Mexico and Canada,
and is set for July 7-28 with games
played all across the United States.
Mexico is the defending champion.
Specific games and game dates
have not yet been announced for
each host city, but that is expected
by the end of February.
The Atlanta game will be held
at the Georgia Dome. While Atlanta has hosted a number of soccer games in the Georgia Dome,
this marks the first time that facility, or the city, has hosted a Gold
Cup game.
Natural grass will be installed
at the Dome for the game.
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Wynalda Returns
From Page 16
squad in 2012.
He went 90 minutes in the 3-3 draw with the
U.S. in CONCACAF Olympic qualifying. It was
a result that knocked the U.S. out of a shot at the
London Olympics.
During the offseason, the Silverbacks and
goalkeeper Daniel Illyes parted ways. Illyes,
who played in 22 of the team’s 28 games in ‘12,
was anxious to return to his native Hungary
where he has a goalkeeper academy. The
Silverbacks return two other goalkeepers, Joe
Nasco and Eric Ati.
Finally, the Silverbacks took a big organiza-
Eric Wynalda....Technical Director
tional step forward in appointing former interim
head coach Eric Wynalda, 46, as the team’s
technical director. He will focus on player development and scouting.
“I’m thrilled to continue my relationship with
the Silverbacks,” said Wynalda, “and I’m just
excited to try and help the club achieve the success on the field that they’ve been striving for.
“I know how serious the organization is abut
winning a NASL championship and also making a run in the U.S. Open Cup.”
The Silverbacks will open the spring portion
of the NASL regular season at home on April 13
against Fort Lauderdale. After the summer break,
the fall home season resumes for Atlanta on August 10 against the Carolina RailHawks.
From Page 16
Georgia Soccer’s
Annual Awards
At AGM
Georgia Soccer presented its annual
awards during the Annual General Meeting weekend.
Five youth awards were presented including Administrator of the Year which
went to Juliet Melvin (Chiefs FC). The
Girls Rec COY went to Jodi DaCosta (Soccer in the Streets) and Girls Select COY
was Gavino Asteghene (Alpharetta Ambush).
The Boys Rec COY was Christopher
Daniel (FCYSL), and the Publix Volunteer
award went to Veronica Brito. Frank
Chillemi was presented the Women’s Rec
Coach of the Year for Adult Soccer.
Three referee awards were presented
with Paola Rivera and Sean Gooding receiving the Female Youth Referee of the
Year and Male Youth Referee of the Year,
respectively. Antonio Boza received the
Mike Burnett Award.
Kim Bowen (Director of Programing)
and Jacob Daniel (Director of Coaching)
were recognized for 20 years of service to
Georgia Soccer.
Georgia Soccer also prsented the Frank
Jones Scholarship award to Lewis Makor,
a student at Clarkston High School.
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“Every single game I could feel my confi- ferent way than what I saw when playing up top.
dence level growing. I was more comfortable and That will stay with me going forward.”
O’Hara was the second youngest starter on the
not as nervous,” said O’Hara, who admits she
was terrified before her first start at outside back, Olympic Team (behind Alex Morgan) and admits
which took place at Olympic Qualifying against to exhaling a huge deep breath after the Olympics, one she had sucked in back in January.
Guatemala.
“It was pure elation, but I was so relieved that
For sure, 13 goals (the number the USA rang
I didn’t screw anyup against the Guathing up too badly,”
temalans) helped
said O’Hara, with a
allay some fear, but
chuckle. “I was
such was the newproud I was able to
ness of her role.
keep fighting and
By the time the
overcome any setOlympics arrived
backs that I experishe was ready.
enced leading up. In
O’Hara was one of
the end, I was
just three players to
pumped about what
play every minute
we were able to acof the tournament
complish as a team,
(along with team
and being able to
captain Christie
contribute was an
Rampone
and
added bonus.”
goalkeeper Hope
Where to go
Solo). She defrom here? O’Hara
fended and attacked
has played on all
with passion and
three lines in her
commitment. She
national team caeven picked up an
Georgia Native Kelley O’Hara
reer, but with a new
assist on Megan
Rapinoe’s second goal in the epic 4-3 victory year, a new coach and new goals, she’s ready to
embrace any new challenge.
against Canada in the semifinal.
“I think we all realize that what happens go“Obviously, there’s a sense of accomplishment. I remember being in California at the be- ing forward is all up to Tom Sermanni, so we’ll
ginning of the year at the training camp before just have to see how it goes,” she said.
“Obviously, it’s pretty clear I will play wherqualifying and laying out my goals,” said O’Hara.
“I knew I wanted to be starting at outside back ever the coach wants me to play, and it’s nice to
in the Olympics, but even though I had that big be able to have options. I love playing soccer
goal, I knew that was going to happen only if I and I just want to be out on the field.”
No matter what patch of grass she happens to
took it practice by practice. In the end it was an
incredibly rewarding experience. It broadened be running on.
(Originally published by USSoccer.com)
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Soccer In North Carolina
Saves Three In UMBC Shootout
N.C. State’s new head women’s coach Tim Santoro has announced
that Mike Barrogueiro, head coach at Iona College the past two years,
has been named Associate Head Coach of the Wolfpack women’s soccer
team....The Charlotte Eagles of USL PRO have added Dave Dixon to
the staff as an assistant coach. Dixon played for Eagles head coach
Mark Steffens when the veteran Charlotte coach began coaching the
Eagles.....Former Duke women’s soccer All-America Rebecca Moros
has announced she has agreed to terms with Japanese professional
team INAC Kobe Leonessa for the 2013 season. A four-year
letterwinner at Duke from 2003-06, Moros garnered third-team AllAmerica accolades in 2006, while also being named All-ACC on three
different occasions.....Wingate University has hired Chip Wiggins as
women’s head soccer coach. Wiggins played collegiate soccer at
Wingate and Charleston Southern. He was a Wingate assistant on two
different occasions. Most recently he
served six years as the Executive Director of Coaching for the Mecklenburg
Union Futbol Club......CASL CEO
Charlie Slagle has been selected Secretary of the Executive Committee of the
National Soccer Coaches Association of
America, a five-year tract position leading to becoming NSCAA president.
Carmel Christian School (Matthews)
coach Kevin Sims was re-elected to the
Charlie Slagle
Board of Directors as the girls high school representatives.....Duke
University senior goalkeeper James Belshaw was selected in the
Major League Soccer Supplemental Draft with the 49th pick by the
Chicago Fire..... Wake Forest women’s soccer standouts Kristen Meier
(Alpharetta, GA) and Jackie Logue (Mt. Laurel, NJ) were selected
the inaugural NWSL Draft. Meier was picked by Seattle Reign FC and
Logue was drafted by the Western New York Flash....Former N.C. State
head coach Steve Springthorpe has joined Coach Robbie Church’s
coaching staff at Duke as a volunteer assistant coach. Springthorpe
has 23 years of coaching experience at the collegiate level. N.C. State
is still paying the final year on Springthorpe’s contract after releasing
him following the end of the 2013 season.
Knighton Glad To Visit Newtown
WILMINGTON, NC- While most
of the nation was focused on the BCS
Championship game, soccer stars from
past and present took time to help a
community continue its healing process and give it a chance to smile and
enjoy life.
Former UNC Wilmington standout
and current Vancouver Whitecaps
goalkeeper Brad Knighton was one
of many soccer standouts participating the event billed as “Soccer Night
in Newtown,” organized by Chris
Canetti, a native of Guilford, Conn.,
and current president of the Houston
Dynamo.
“You could just sense that something special was going to happen today, and that the community had really opened up,” Canetti told
MLSsoccer.com. “The only thing we
regret is that we wish we had a bigger
place. There were just so many people
that wanted to be a part of this.”
The night’s activities for the reeling community ranged from pick-up
games to an opportunity to ask players questions and
learn more
about them
and picking
up a pointer
or
two
about soccer
and
maybe life.
Imagine
Brad Knighton
getting a chance to make to or receive
a pass from Mia Hamm or Dwayne
DeRosario? Or learning you’re your
favorite player’s experiences? Or receiving a simple high-five and a pat
on the back?
“It was incredible to see how the
event was put together in a short
Knighton Sign Autographs For Newtown (CT) Children
Hammerheads Are Preseason World Travelers
If you think preseason is
about the same for all professional soccer teams, consider
the Wilmington Hammerheads, runnersup for the USL
PRO championship in 2012.
This year the Hammerheads
are beginning preparations for
the 2013 season with 10 days
in late February in Antalya,
Turkey.
Coach David Irving will use
the preseason tour to work
with his current roster, that includes newly-signed Jamel
Wa l l a c e
and Shaun
Utterson.
Also on the
trip will be
returning
midfielders
Bryce Taylor
and
M a r k
David Irving
Briggs,
both of whom played big roles in the
Hammerheads season year ago.
That run to the league championship fell one win short, as the Ham-
amount of time and I’m happy I
could be a part of it,” said
Knighton. “There were so many
activities for the parents and kids
to participate in; it was great to see
kids and parents smiling from earto-ear.
“One of the first people I met
was a first-responder police officer.
He thanked us for coming and said
we were heroes for taking the time
to come to the event. To me he was
the real hero.”
Newtown native and former
Wake Forest University AllAmerica Marcus Tracy, who
plays for the San Jose Earthquakes,
told MLS soccer.com, “That’s
what it was all about - seeing these
young kids come out here and have
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Johnson, Robinson
Howard Inducted
Into N.C. Soccer HOF
Photo Courtesy of Vancouver Whitecaps
N.C. Soccer
merheads were beaten 1-0 by the
Charleston Battery.
In Turkey, the Hammerheads will get
a taste of international competition,
first playing Chinese Second Division
side Beijing IT and then facing Ukrainian club Olympik Donetsk a day later.
Their final opponent will be FK
Akzhaiyk of the Kazakhstan premier
League.
Following the tour, Wilmington will
have a player combine in Arnold, MD
(March 8-10) and in Wilmington
(March 16-17).
The Hammerheads have also re-
signed veteran midfielder Paul
Nicholson and defender Gareth
Evans. Nicholson played in 20
matches a year ago, while Evans
played in 22.
Briggs, who is in his third season with the Hammerheads, will
again serve as assistant coach.
The Hammerheads will be affiliated with the MLS New York Red
Bulls, and will play a two-game
home/away series with the Red
Bulls reserve team with results
counting in the USL PRO standings.
Curt Johnson, Eddie
Robinson and the late Barry
Howard were induced into the N.C.
Soccer Hall of Fame on Jan. 26 in
Greensboro as the sixteenth
NCSHOF class.
Also honored were the 1977 Raleigh Spartans as the second member of the N.C. Soccer Hall of
Fame’s National Champions Hall of
Honor.
The Spartans became the first
youth soccer team from N.C. to capture a US Youth Soccer national title
by winning the Under-18 Girls
championship in 1995.
Johnson, current President of the
NASL Carolina RailHawks, was
General Manager for seven years
with the Kansas City Wizards.
Robinson retired last year after
playing 10 MLS seasons with San
Jose/Houston franchise.
Howard, a former high school
and college coach from Buies
Creek, NC, was inducted
postumously.
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UNC’s Dunn, Maryland’s Mullins Will Return For Senior Seasons
Two Juniors Are 2012 MAC Hermann Trophy Winners
The Most Versatile Tar Heel
...........According To Anson
No ‘I’ In Team For Terps’
Hermann TrophyWinner
By Adam Minichino
Absolutes define personalities.
Anson Dorrance has coached some of the
greatest women’s soccer players in the sport’s
history, so he has a unique perspective when assessing how current University of North Carolina players compare to past greats.
It’s safe to say Crystal Dunn has carved a
spot with the Tar Heels’ best.
“She is the most versatile player I have ever
coached in 35 years,” Dorrance said. “There is
not one position, excluding goal, that she
wouldn’t be extraordinary in.”
Dunn showcased that versatility this past season, leading North Carolina to its 22nd national
championship and winning the Missouri Athletic
Club’s Hermann Trophy, which is awarded annually to the nation’s top player.
Dunn earned the award despite missing the
Tar Heels’ first six matches while helping the
United States Women’s National Team’s Under20 team win the World Cup in September in Japan.
“Everything has pretty much happened real
fast,” Dunn said. “I have had a lot going on in
the last six months, jumping into the World Cup
and coming off the World Cup, and then in the
blink of an eye we were in the Final Four. It was
definitely a great win. In the blink of an eye the
awards started spilling out.”
Dunn’s whirlwind carried into the new year.
In January, new U.S. Women’s National Team
coach Tom Sermanni invited Dunn and five
other former UNC players to train with the team
for matches against Scotland. On Feb. 13, Dunn
earned her first cap at the senior level when she
replaced Ali Krieger in the 69th minute of a 3-1
victory in Nashville, Tenn.
Dunn is the fourth player this year — Christen Press, Kristie Mewis, and Julie Johnston
— to earn her first cap with the U.S. senior
By Adam Minichino
Putting the “we” before “me” helped Patrick
Mullins have one of the most enjoyable seasons
of his career in 2012.
Mullins hopes he and his University of Maryland
men’s soccer teammates can take that mentality two
more steps to cap the 2013 season in style.
If the Terrapins are to accomplish that goal,
Mullins, the 2012 Missouri Athletic Club
Hermann Trophy award winner, likely will have
to play a key role. This past season, Mullins, a 6foot-1, 172-pounder from New Orleans, scored
17 goals and had 10 assists to help lead Maryland to the Men’s College Cup. Georgetown
eliminated Maryland in penalty kicks in the national semifinal.
“Individual accolades were never my concern,” Mullins said. “The reason I had a great
year was because our team had such a great year,
and the mentality of our team was we before me.”
Although the ending of the season was disappointing, Mullins opted to return to College Park,
Md., for his senior year. He likely will be a frontrunner to repeat as the Hermann Trophy winner,
while Maryland, which went 20-1-3, will try to
win another Atlantic Coast Conference regularseason title, tournament crown, and national
championship.
Maryland coach Sasho Cirovski said he and
his assistant coaches gathered information about
turning professional for Mullins and his family.
He said he would have been happy if Mullins
decided to go pro because it was a “win-win situation” for everyone involved. Cirovski feels
Mullins’ desire to complete his degree as a double
major was a motivating factor in his decision to
return for another year.
“He sees the value of finishing up his college
experience,” Cirovski said. “He loves this team
and sees we’re going to to be good next year and
thinks he can still get better at Maryland. I am
delighted he is going to be back at Maryland.”
Cirovski said Mullins took a large step as a
junior in being able to hold the ball better, to pass
See Mullins, Page 23
Mia Hamm Presents 2012 MAC Hermann Trophy To Maryland’s Patrick
Mullins And UNC’s Crystal Dunn (L-R)
Women’s National Team. She also is the sixth
Dunn also was named Atlantic Coast ConferNorth Carolina player — Cat Reddick (2003), ence Defender of the Year, as well as Soccer
Cindy Parlow (1997-98), Tisha Venturini
See It Has Been, Page 18
(1994), Mia Hamm (1992-93), and Kristine
Lilly (1991) — to win the Hermann Trophy. The
eight awards is the most of any school.
Dunn, who had five goals and five assists in
17 games, beat out the University of Virginia’s
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Caroline Miller and Penn State University’s fun, smile,” he said.
Christine Nairn for the Hermann Trophy.
“Taking their minds off what’s transpired over
Dorrance credited both of those great players the last few weeks, and restore some sense of
for their accomplishments this season, and normalcy in the healing.”
praised the voters for recognizing how much
Knighton enters his second season with the
Dunn meant to the Tar Heels after she was moved Whitecaps after finishing the 2012 season as the
from center back to center midfielder in the squad’s starting goalkeeper. Vancouver qualipostseason.
fied for the playoffs, but dropped a 2-1 decision
“We started to push Crystal into the midfield to eventual MLS Cup champion Los Angeles
and she started to take games over,” Dorrance Galaxy.
said. “She consistently gave us a platform to score
After completing his collegiate career with
or to assist in every NCAA game. Her ability in UNCW as the program’s leader in goals against
the NCAA games was the margin of victory for average (1.08) and shutouts (25), Knighton
us.
signed a developmental contract with the New
“She was absolutely brilliant, and I certainly England Revolution until 2009 when he was sethink she caught the eyes of the people who voted lected by the Philadelphia Union in the expanon several of the national player of the year sion draft.
awards.”
He played one season with the Union and then
signed with the Carolina RailHawks of the North
American Soccer League in 2011. Knighton returned to the top level of soccer in 2012 when he
moved back to MLS with the Whitecaps.
Brad Knighton
2012 NSCAA Assistant Coach Of The Year
2013 N.C. Soccer HOF Inductees
Eddie Robinson, Michael McDaniel (nephew of Barry Howard), Curt Johnson (L-R)
Glenn “Mooch” Myernick Assistant Men’s COY
Junior College
Johnny Torres, Creighton (Neb.)
Torres, a former All-America player at Creighton, has been
with the Bluejay men’s program for six seasons, helping the
team to a 17-4-3 record (5-0-1 Missouri Valley Conference)
and a run to the semifinal round of the 2012 NCAA Division
I Men’s College Cup. 2012 marked Torres’ second Regional
Assistant Coach of the Year and first National Assistant Coach
of the Year award. His role with Creighton includes scouting, recruiting and training.
Glenn “Mooch” Myernick Assistant Women’s COY
Suzie Hinman, Butler Community College
Hinman has made a tremendous impact with the Grizzlies
program since joining in 2011, helping the team to two consecutive conference titles and berths into the NJCAA National Tournament the past two seasons. In 2012, the team
finished 22-3-0, moving the program’s overall record to 426-1 (25-1-0 in conference) since Hinman has been on the
bench. This season also marked the first time the team has
reached a #1 ranking in the NSCAA poll and a new school
record in single-season wins.
Bill Palladino, University of North Carolina
Palladino has been with the Tar Heel women’s program for
33 years and has played in integral role in the storied
program’s success. As the defensive mastermind for UNC,
he has helped the team to numerous conference and NCAA
national titles. This season, UNC won its 22nd NCAA Division I national title and kept all opponents to just 17 goals
this season.
Kevin Barrows, Wesleyan Christian Academy (N.C.)
Barrows helped lead the Wesleyan Christian Academy boys
soccer team to an undefeated season and the North Carolina
Independent Schools Athletic Association state 3-A championship. The Trojans finished with an amazing 25-0 overall
record and 8-0 in league action. The team also finished the
season #3 in the NSCAA High School Fall Rankings.
UNC’s Bill Palladino (c)
High Point Wesleyan’s Kevin Barrows (c)
High School Assistant COY
2013 N.C. Soccer Hall Of Fame National Champions Hall Of Honor
1977 Raleigh Spartans......1995 US Youth Soccer U-18 National Champions
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Soccer In South Carolina
Hosting 10th Annual Carolina Challenge Cup
S.C. Soccer
The National Soccer Coaches Association of American recognized
brothers Kyle and Kevin Heise with a Certificate of Appreciation at
the annual High School and Youth Breakfast during the NSCAA convention in Indianapolis last month. Kevin is the boys varsity soccer
coach at Brookland-Cayce HS and Kyle is an assistant for the
Bearcats....The Central S.C. Cobras of the USL W-League have announced a partnership with Carolina Elite Soccer Academy. The newly
named Carolina Elite Cobras will once again compete in the Southeast Division in 2013, a division that in 2012 included the Charlotte
Lady Eagles, Atlanta Silverbacks, VSI Tampa Flames and FC Jax
Destroyers.....Mariana Garcia scored the Bulldogs’ lone goal when
The Citadel dropped its spring season opener to South Carolina. Garcia,
who became The Citadel’s all-time goals leader last season, notched
the game's first goal just fifteen minutes into the contest when she
collected a pass from Kimberly
Maldonado and drove a rocket past the
Gamecocks goalkeeper. USC scored
three unanswered goals for the 3-1
win.......Coastal Carolina forward Ashton
Bennett, the Chanticleers’ first-ever twotime first team All-American, was the
20th overall pick of the 2013 Major
League Soccer Supplemental Draft.
Bennett, a native of Clarendon, Jamaica,
Ashton Bennett
was selected by Toronto FC with the first
pick of the second round. Bennett will join fellow supplemental picks
Jose Gomez (Creighton), Nick Robson (New Mexico) and Taylor
Morgan (Georgetown) for the start of preseason training at the end of
the month. Toronto finished the 2012 season with a 5-21-8 overall
record, earning 23 points in the MLS standings.....Hilton Head Island
HS Seahawks Kelsey Fitzhugh, Jordan Haughton-James and Nikki
Schoning will continue their playing careers together at Charleston
Southern after signing with the Lady Bucs. The trio won their second
consecutive South Carolina 3A State Championship in 2012.
Battery Seeks To Defend USL PRO Title
The Charleston Battery is coming
off a championship season, and this is
a very important preseason before beginning defense of their USL PRO
title.
Preseason camp began only seven
days ahead of the 10th annual Carolina Challenge Cup, a week-long
round robin of preseason games between the Battery and three Major
League Soccer teams, the Chicago Fie,
Vancouver Whitecaps, and MLS Cup
runnerup Houston Dynamo.
Three-time defending champion
D.C. United is not playing this year,
so the event is a wide open competition.
Four Battery players got a head start
by spending time in preseason MLS
training camps. Midfielder Nicki
Paterson was with the New York Red
Bulls, Joe Cuevas and Cody Ellison
trained with the Seattle Sounders and
winger Ryan Richter trained with
D.C. United.
Paterson, who led the Battery in
scoring a year ago with 12 goals and
two assists, signed a contract extension earlier this month. He’s played
56 games over the past two seasons
Whitecaps Top
Battery In Opener
Paladins Reload With #2 Recruiting Class In America
There is a lot of anticipation
and excitment for the fall men’s
soccer season at Furman University.
Yes, the Paladins did lose arguably their best player, when
Lawrenceville, GA, defender
Walker Zimmerman opted to
pass on the rest of his eligibility
after being a student for three semesters.
But there are eight starters
slated to return in the fall from
the 2012 squad that was 12-4-3
and 4-2-1 in the Southern Conference.
Zimmerman signed a Generation adidas contract earlier
this year and
was taken in
the
first
round of the
2013 MLS
SuperDraft
by FC Dallas, with the
overall #7
pick.
Top Trevor Haberkorn
Drawer Soccer rates Coach Doug
Allison’s eight-member signing class
to be the #2 class in the nation.
That class includes forward Evan
De Ycaza, forward Bobby Edet, center back Trevor Haberkorn, goalkeeper Joseph Melong, defender
with Charleston, scoring 17 goals
with six assists.
Paterson grew up as a member of
Scottish side Motherwell’s youth academy, but his first senior contract was
with
Scotland’s
Hamilton
Academicals. He played collegiate
soccer in the U.S. at Nevada Las Vegas.
“I’m excited to finally get a
chance to play in the Carolina
Cup,” said Paterson, who missed
the tournament a year ago while
dealing with visa problems. “I’ve
heard a lot about the tournament
and obviously any time you can
play against teams from the MLS
it’s exciting.”
Last year after helping the Battery win the club’s fourth championship, Paterson was loaned to the
New York Red Bulls. He spent a
month with the club and played in
two reserve games.
Like most, he’d like to make that
next step up to MLS, but it is a difficult step to climb.
“It’s very difficult to get an international spot in MLS,” said the
28-year old Paterson. “They tend
to give those to established players
from Europe or South America.
See Paterson, Page 26
Wellford Moore, midfielder Marco
Ortiz, midfielder Eli Pinner and defender Dylan Rowe.
Five of the eight were ranked in either Top Drawer Soccer’s IMG Academy 150 or College Soccer News’ Top
150 for the class of 2013.
Edet, another Texan, is ranked #28
overall in the 2013 class by Top
Drawer Soccer, while Ortiz, yet another Texan, is rated to be #47 in the
country.
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most followers of U.S. age group national teams will find familiar. The
Keeler, Texas native is an NSCAA
Youth All-America and is rated the
#2 player in the state of Texas and
13 overall nationally.
He has been a starter at center
back for the U.S. Under-18 men’s
national team.
“We are very excited to have
signed this excellent class, and we
think they will represent the program, Furman University and their
families very well,” said Allison.
“This is an extremely strong
class that we are expecting to have
See Furman Paladins, Page 21
The Vancouver Whitecaps took
advantage of the Charleston
Battery’s loose marking for a pair
of early goals in the opening game
of the 2013 Carolina Challenge
Cup.
Kekuta Mennah scored two
goals for Vancouver and Daigo
Kobayashi added a third to lead
the Whitecaps to a 3-2 win past
Charleston before a Blackbaud
crowd in excess of 4,000.
The Battery, playing with less
than a week of preseason work, got
back in the game on goals from
Nicki Paterson and Dane Kelly,
who assisted Paterson on his goal.
“We came out and played better in
the second half,” said Charleston coach
Mike Anhaeuser. “We made a couple
of adjustments and kept our intensity
up, which was good to see.”
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America Player of the Year.
With the U-20 Women’s National
Team, Dunn made a long run and several moves to set up Kealia Ohai’s
goal in the U.S.’s 1-0 victory against
Germany in the title match. The goal
snapped Germany’s record 610minute scoreless streak.
She proved equally effective in the
NCAA tournament, scoring five goals
and assisting on two more. She had the
game-tying goal in regulation against
Baylor University in a match that went
to penalty kicks.
She had the game-winning goal in
overtime against Brigham Young University, and then assisted on goals
against Stanford University and Penn
State to help North Carolina complete
the title march.
Dunn said injuries on the team contributed to Dorrance’s decision to push
her to defense in the middle of the season. She then moved to forward as
players returned, and then to midfield.
Each time, Dunn said she was
“cool” with the move and wanted to
do what was best for the team. She said
she had never played central
midfielder, so it took some time to get
used to, but she credited her teammates
for supporting her in the new role.
Dunn said she never imagined winning as many individual awards as she
did this season. She said the game has
changed so much and that there are so
many great players that nothing is
guaranteed, which makes it even more
“amazing” when you consider the
changes she made and the whirlwind
she went through to earn the honors.
It Has Been A Busy Year For Tar Heels’ Dunn
She said it is equally “amazing” to hear
a coach like Dorrance mention her versatility and compliment her like he did.
“It is such a great thing to hear from
Anson,” Dunn said. “He is a man who
has coached so many great players that
any compliment from him is amazing.
I love playing multiple positions.
“Everyone asks me, ‘Doesn’t it
suck?’ But if you’re on the field you
really shouldn’t complain. Any minute
you’re given at any position you
should own it and do what you have
to do on the field.”
Dunn said that as she was preparing for what turned out to be her first
cap with the senior national team. She
spent her time training at outside back
with the senior national team in Florida
and in Tennessee.
From Page 20
UNC’S Crystal Dunn
She remembered being so scared
for her first game with the Tar Heels
at Texas A&M University. She played
outside back in that game, too, and re-
calls putting her anxiety aside and taking comfort in the fact she was wearing a North Carolina jersey. She said
that realization helped her not care
where she was playing and make the
most of the opportunity. That is what
she has continued to do in her college
and her national team career.
“I keep the same mentality through
the position changes,” said Dunn, who
is 5-foot-2. “I am not going to lose my
attacking mentality. I am not really that
big, but I feel I can wiggle my way
out of things.”
Dorrance said Dunn’s ability to take
players on makes her so dangerous. Even
though Dunn’s first instinct as a center
midfielder might not be to pass the ball,
Dorrance said Dunn still was able to “rip
things up” from that position.
He said her effectiveness shows
how difficult it is for defenses to deal
with a player as quick and as skilled
— and as versatile — as Dunn.
“There is no way we could have
predicted she was going to score goal
after goal from attacking center half,”
Dorrance said. “There is no way she
would have won any of the awards (if
she hadn’t moved to that position).
There were tremendous players out
there who had a tremendous seasons.
“Caroline Miller scored goal after goal, and Christine Nairn had an
incredible number of goals and assists.
Crystal Dunn’s portfolio compared to
those two was incredibly small, but I
think what the coaches saw is this little
kid putting our team on her back and
leading us through to a championship.”
Paterson Returns For Third Season In Charleston
“I think they liked me and had good
things to say about me. It was a good
experience. I got myself sharp and that
can only help my season here.”
The Battery had 12 returning players on their offseason roster. That includes team captain Colin Falvey and
veteran defender John Wilson. The
other six are Michael Azira, Kevin
Klasila, JC Mack, Taylor Mueller,
Amadou Sanyang and Mark Wiltse.
The Battery won the league title
in 2012, beating the Wilmington Hammerheads by a goal in the championship game. Charleston finished third
in the regular season.
Cuevas scored eight goals in his
rookie pro season last year, while
Ellison, also a rookie, payed in 10
games last year. Richter played 29
games for Charleston a season ago,
logging 1,792 minutes.
The Carolina Challenge Cup will
give the Battery coaches a chance to
evaluate a group of prospective candidates for 2013, and to assess the condition of the returning veterans.
“Right now we are looking at about
six to 10 spots depending on our guys
and depending on how we look at each
position, but it’s always important to
have some flexibility,” coach Mike
Anhaeuser told a Charleston Courier
And Post writer.
The Battery was scheduled to play
the Whitecaps on opening night, Feb.
16, and will take on the Chicago Fire
on Wednesday, Feb. 20. The event
concludes on Saturday, Feb. 23 with
the Battery playing Houston.
Opening night was expected to be a
sellout at Blackbaud Stadium.
Furman Paladins
Battery’s Nicki Paterson
From Page 20
an immediate impact on our program,”
offered Paladin assistant Anthony
Esquivel. “The class is well-rounded,
very diverse, and will add to Furman’s
campus.
“These players are true to the
Furman tradition of excellence, and I
am looking forward to coaching them.
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Southern Soccer Academy, Atlantic Fire United Also In
Tennessee Soccer
Emily Dowd, a native of Gainesville, FL, who scored 22 career goals
with 12 assists for the University of Tennessee Lady Vols (2008-2011)
has signed to play professionally in Sweden with Division I TGierps
IF......U.S. WNT forward Alex Morgan was forced to sit out the USA’s
match with Scotland at LP Field in Nashville. She injured an ankle in
a 4-1 Feb. 9 win over the Scots in Jacksonville, FL....Treveca Nazarine
women’s soccer coach Brett Armstrong has signed two players for
the fall of 2013, including Abbie Alosi of Chattanooga, sister of current Trojan Ryan Alosi. The other signee is goalkeeper Allie Ashley
from IMG Academy in Florida......For the second straight season, senior Kerri Reid (Peachtree City, GA) captured both the overall team
MVP and Golden Eagle awards at Tennessee Tech. Reed, who played
prep soccer at McIntosh HS, will graduate from Tech second in all-time career
starts with 71. Fellow senior Julie Thompson (Knoxville/Christian Academy
of Knoxville) snagged defensive MVP
honors for second consecutive year after
missing just one start in 17 games played.
The offensive MVP award went to junior
forward Ellie Iaciofano (Lovelnd, Ohio).
After two solid seasons, Iaciofano enVanessa Fyffe
joyed a break-out year for the Golden
Eagles, leading the team in goals (8) and points (20) and tying for the
team lead in assists (4) while earning all-OVC second-team
honors.....Tusculum College head women’s soccer coach Mike Joy
has announced that former Pioneer goalkeeper Vanessa Fyffe has
been named assistant coach. Fyffe replaces Keyton Wheelock, who
was named assistant coach at Division I South Alabama after four
years with the Pioneers......Lee University women’s coach Matt Yelton
announced that the Lady Flames have signed four student-athletes to
the school’s first NCAA Division II recruiting class for women’s soccer. Kinsey Cichowitz (Buena Vista, Colo.), Haley Gribler
(Springboro, Ohio), Summer Lanter (Soddy-Daisy, Tenn.), and
Kaela Leskovar (Plainfield, Ill.) will play for Lee next fall.
FC Nashville, KSA Join Next Generation
TAMPA, Fla. – FC Nashville was
the first club announced by the United
Soccer Leagues (USL) to be accepted
into the Next Generation Series, an exciting, new youth soccer initiative undertaken by USL and IMG Academy,
established to provide players, coaches
and clubs the opportunity to take part
in an eight month, elite-level league.
The 2013 NGS format will consist
of U12 and U14 boys and girls teams
participating in an eight-month season
beginning in August and culminating
in April that will feature two evaluation/competition events at IMG. Top
players will be identified through the
Atlanta Fire United
FC Nashville
Mark Mackain
Desmond Armstrong
Knoxville Soccer Academy
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A Night For Records When Nashville Was The Winner
The U.S. Women’s National
Team won the game. They beat
Scotland’s WNT 3-1 in an international friendly.
But the real winners on a cold
Feb. 13 Wednesday evening
might have been Nashville and
the fans who turned out in
record numbers to see the #1
ranked women’s soccer team in
the world play.
It was a night of records all
around. Abby Wambach
earned her 200th international
cap. Only Kristine Lilly and
Mia Hamm played more times
for the red, white and blue.
The win was the second of
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the year for
the team,
running
their unbeaten string
to 24 games.
Wambach
scored
a
goal, her
152nd, just
Abby Wambach
six goals shy
of Hamm’s record 158. When Abby
scores a goal the U.S. is 97-2-7 over
her career.
The day before the game a training
session at LP Field was open to the
public. More than 600 fans showed
up, displaying signs and cheering the
NGS Player Tracking Program
and invited to attend the NGS ID
Training Camp at IMG.
The USL has also announced
that the Knoxville Soccer Academy, Atlanta Fire United and
Southern Soccer Academy from
Georgia have been accepted into
the program.
Led by former U.S Men’s National Team captain Desmond
Armstrong, FC Nashville is
seeking to find and develop talent and put players on a larger
stage. The Knoxville Soccer
Academy teams will be headed
by Director of Coaching Derek
Broadley.
“NGS provides my players
and opportunity for greater exposure and competition beyond
their traditional state league,”
Armstrong said. “The long-term
benefits of the NGS format are
that there will be more training
See Thompson, Page 23
players as they went through a training session under direction of new
coach Tom Sermanni.
That turnout for a training session
impressed defender Ali Krieger.
“It is amazing,” said Krieger. “It
is unreal how many people are so interested, not only in the sport, but in
this team. It is something bigger than
ourselves.
“You walk out there and you see all
the fans that come and you really think,
‘Wow, we really impact and inspire all
of these people.’ That is such a good
feeling.”
But the best was yet to come. The
turnout for the game was 14,224. They
braved the cold night air with tempera-
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tures just over 40 degrees.
It was the biggest crowd to ever
watch a U.S. WNT game in Nashville. The previous record was
9,110 for a game in 2004. It also
broke the record for the most fans
to see the WNT in the state of Tennessee.... a crowd of 13,081,which
was set in Chattanooga back in
1997 against Sweden.
Nashville has hosted the U.S.
Men’s National Teams on a number of occasions. It is on U.S.
Soccer’s radar for games scheduled
in the Eastern half of the country.
There’s no doubt the U.S. women
will return again. Not a matter of
if, but rather a question of when!
Carl Schmitt (Mid-South
Futbol Club) was named the Tennessee State Soccer Boys Competitive Coach of the Year, while
the Girls Competitive Coach of the
Year went to Laban DeFriese
(Tennessee Soccer Club).
The 2012 awards were presented at the recent AGM weekend.
Recreation Coach of the Year is
Dave Cleary, and TOPS Buddy of
the Year went to Jed Holstine,
who was a US Youth National
Award Finalist.
The Publix Volunteer of the
Year award went to Sandy Martin. The three referee awards went
to Regan Sheen and Donovan
Eubank, for 2012 Female and
Male Youth Referee of the Year,
respectively. Walt Heatherly was
recognized as the 2012 Male Youth
Referee of the Year.
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Mullins Returns For Senior Year At Maryland
off the dribble and off crosses, and to
increase his shooting range. He said
Mullins scored goals with his right foot
and his head, which are both areas that
can get refined. He feels Maryland’s
competitive schedule this season likely
will put Mullins to challenge himself
and move him into position to make
an impact the next level in 2014.
“He is a player coaches will really
like,” Cirovski said. “He is a very
bright man, very mature, and very
coachable. His skill set is such that he
can play any of the three front positions. He can play in a two-front and
also play wide in a 4-4-2. He is a guy
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that can hurt you as a provider and as
a scorer. He has a great left foot. If he
adds to that it just increases his value.”
Mullins credits Cirovski for fostering a environment that has allowed the
Terrapins to flourish. He said the
team’s ability to embrace the “we”
mind-set as opposed to the “me” approach exceeded his expectations. It
leads him to believe the team can have
an equally successful season later this
year if everyone follows suit.
As far as individual accomplishments, Mullins deflects the praise to
his teammates. He said their support
and the team’s willingness to play to-
Maryland’s Patrick Mullins
gether will allow him and everyone
else to have a 2013 to remember. He
also doesn’t feel the individual awards
he earned will change him as a player.
“There are areas of my game I can
improve and areas I can help my team
out by making it to the final and winning it. I think that was my goal. I think
I did a pretty good job of it, but it is
not the end of the Patrick Mullins story.
I want to keep improving.
“How I prepare for the upcoming season starts right now. If I am not performing on a day-to-day basis I am letting them
down, and I am letting myself down.
“We’re excited (about 2013). I
Thompson To Head Up New Generation Series
times in preparation for matches,
which is vitally important at these
ages, so that it lays the foundation for
player success when they are older
competing for spots at the next levels.”
Atlanta Fire United traces club history back 32 years. Over the past two
season AFU has qualified eight teams
for the Super Y-League North American finals, with two taking home
championships.
“The emphasis at our younger age
groups is to teach them how to play
before we teach them to compete,”
said AFU Director of Coaching Mark
Mackain.
Southern Soccer Academy, based
in Marietta, GA, is led by Director of
Soccer Steve Gummer.
More than just another youth soccer
league, NGS features a forward-look-
ing, innovative, comprehensive, and
unique development program designed to develop the complete elite
youth soccer player through a defined
regimen of training, competition, testing, and evaluation.
“We are excited to have accepted
FC Nashville into the Next Generation
Series,” NGS Director Abe Thompson said. “FC Nashville’s players (as
will the players from the other clubs)
will have the unique experience of being part of an elite competition while
benefitting from the facilities and expertise available at IMG Academy.
Thompson played collegiate soccer
at the University of Maryland, and enjoyed a eight-year professional career
before joining the USL to head up the
Next Generation Series. He played
with Dallas, Houston and Kansas City
in MLS, and has played the last three
years with the NASL Ft. Lauderdale
Strikers.
“The NGS will help players improve by offering them challenging
games, as well as exposing them at a
younger age to the type of evaluation
and education they will see at higher
levels, whether that be a youth national
team, college, professional team, or
full national team.”
According to the USL announcements, the inspiration for NGS was
the repeated and consistent message
received from top youth soccer
clubs and coaches that they were
seeking a fresh development initiative specifically geared toward
younger teams and players. NGS
was launched to fill the void by providing a comprehensive platform for
clubs to best prepare their young
players for the challenges which
await them at the next level.
“My goal for joining NGS is to provide broader opportunities for my players, some of whom are refugees, who
have a limited geographic range to display their talents,” Armstrong said.
The 2013-2014 NGS season will
feature four conferences. Teams from
Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Tennessee, will
play in the South Conference.
The Florida Conference will include only teams from the Sun Shine
State, while Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana will play in the MidSouth Conference. Clubs from Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania will
comprise the Mid-Atlantic Conference.
think we’re going to keep doing what
made us successful. We realize this
season is done with and that it means
nothing for next season. We want to
approach it with the attitude that we
want to get a little better at what we
do as a team. We did that last season
and we can do it this season.”
Cirovski, too, is confident the Terrapins can continue to play with the
attitude that had them two matches
from winning a championship. He has
that confidence because having leaders like Mullins who epitomize the
“we” approach makes things a lot
easier on and off the field.
“We didn’t have a single player start
all our games,” Cirovski said. “We
rested some guys and they understood
and were happy for the other guys who
were getting an opportunity to play. We
felt like we had two top-20 teams on
my team last year, and that made training sessions incredibly intense.
“When your leaders are supportive of others getting playing time
and others embrace the mentality, it
becomes easier. The older guys
checked their egos at the door. It really took our team chemistry to another level, and that was a big reason for our success.
“I think we will be building on what
happened this season. We put a lot of
trust in Pat, and Pat has a lot of trust in
the culture of our program and his
teammates. ... Pat is a ‘we’ guy, and
he is going to be our key leader this
year, and he is going to be a great influence for the rest of the players.”
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Soccer In Virginia
Northern Virginia NASL Pro Team
Virginia Soccer
The Washington Spirit of the Women’s National Soccer League have
signed a pair of players with local ties. Virginia native Chantel Jones,
a goalkeeper who played for the Virginia Cavaliers, signed along with
midfielder Ingrid Wells, who was known as “the Little General” when
she played at Georgetown. Jones earned the NCAA career shutout
record with 47 in her four-year career. She played on the U.S. U-16,
U-17, U-20 and U-23 national teams. Wells, a native of New Jersey,
was a stater on the U.S. U-20 WNT that won the 2008 World Cup
championship. She is coming off playing a professional season in
Sweden....The Virginia Beach Piranhas have announced that Matt
Busch will take the head coaching duties for the club’s Premier Development League team in 2013. Busch serves as Director of Club
Operation for the Virginia Rush Athletic
Club, is a member of the VYSA ODP
staff and is a member of the VYSA
Coaching Education Staff....The landmark agreement that named the Richmond Kickers the official USL Pro affiliate of D.C. United kicked off when
defender Henry Kalungi traveled to Orlando, Fla. to train with the Major League
Soccer club. Kickers coach Leigh
Matt Busch
Cowlishaw joins the coaching staff to
observe their preseason camp.....Virginia Tech men’s head coach
Michael Brizendine has announced that juniors David Clemens
(Ballston Lake, NY) and Kyle Rennfro (Forest, VA) have been named
the Hokies’ team captains for the 2013 season.....Steve Brdarski, an
assistant coach for Longwood’s women’s soccer for the past nine
years, has been appointed women’s head soccer coach at St.
Bonaventure....Midfielder Joseph Haboush, who played club soccer
with the Richmond Strikers and college soccer at VCU, has agreed
to terms with the USL Pro’s Richmond Kickers. At VCU, Haboush
played in 56 career games from 2008-2012. Haboush was a first team
All-Metro player at Benedictine High School and spent two seasons
with the Richmond Strikers U-16 Elite and U-18 Academy teams.
Here Comes The Calvary........In 2014
Blow the bugle and sound the
charge, Northern Virginia has a new
professional soccer team named Virginia Calvary FC.
The team will take the field in 2014
as one of three new North American
Soccer League franchises, joining
teams a year from now based in Indianapolis, IN, and Ottawa, Canada.
The Calvary will play in Ashburn
next year, provided Bob Farren’s VIP
Sports and Entertainment group can
get approval to build a 5,5000-seat stadium in time for the season opener.
The proposed facility is BallPark at
One Loudoun, at the corner of Route
7 and Loudoun County Parkway.
“Virginia Calvary FC is a tremendous name for Virginia’ first high-level
professional
s o c c e r
club,” off e r e d
Farren, VIP
S & E ’ s
CEO.
A list of
possible
team names where whittled down
through a contest by thousands of responses from Northern Virginia fans,
with Calvary beating out the next two,
the Stallions and the Dominion.
The formal announcement was
made on Feb. 6 at Bungalow
Lakehouse in Sterling. The event was
hosted by NBC Sports’ Russ Thaler,
with former U.S. MNT stars John
Four New Members
Inducted Into HOF
2013 Virginia/D.C. Soccer Hall Of Fame Inductees
Steven Goff, Anne Thompson, Jim Ferguson (L-R). Missing Steve Jolley
Freedom May Be Gone, But Spirit Lives On
The Washington Freedom is
but a memory, but there is another professional soccer team
playing at the Maryland
SoccerPlex in Germantown.
It’s the Washington Spirit,
one of eight teams in the new
National Women’s Soccer
League.
It is an organization with links
to the past, including the WLeague years of the Freedom and
D.C. United Women. But it is a
franchise not burdened by both
past achievements and failures.
Like the other seven NWSL
clubs, the Spirit will write it’s
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own history
on clear,
clean note
pages.
The
Spirit received goalk e e p e r
Ashlyn
Harris, defender Ali Krieger and midfielder
Lori Lindsey from the U.S. WNT
Player Pool in the allocation phase.
Their allocated Canadians are
Robin Gayle, who played collegiate
soccer at UNC, and Diana Matheson.
From Mexico’s Player Pool they re-
Harkes and Eddie Pope in attendance.
Virginia Governor Bob
McDonnell welcomed the team to
the Commonwealth via video.
While the team name was announced, yet to be unveiled are the
team logo and uniforms.
The proposed stadium, which
will also be the home of the minor
league baseball Loudon Hounds,
will have 5,500 permanent seats,
with the capacity to expand to at
least another 4,000.
The facility will feature an artificial playing surface.
Originally the stadium was approved for the Kincora development closer to the Dulles Town
Center. Concern for moving the
stadium with the new location
closer to a rapidly growing residential center has been expressed by
local groups of residents.
VIP is said to be working to address the concerns and reservations
expressed by the local residents.
ceived Alina Garciamendez and
Teresa Worbis.
Six players were added from the Supplemental Draft, including former U.S. WNT
forward Natasha Kai, who has earned 64
international caps for the U.S.
Megan Mischler played at West Virginia and Heather Cooke is a former
player for Loyola University of Maryland. Tori Huster played for the Western New York Flash and Stephanie
Ochs and Jordan Angeli formerly
played for the Boston Breakers.
Canadian WNT defender Candace
Chapman was signed, along with
former Virginia Cavalier Kaka
Tououse to bolster the defense. Two
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members of the U.S. U20 World
Cup champions, MF Ingrid Wells
and GK Chantel Jones are the
“new kids on the block.”
Nicknamed “the Little General”,
Wells starred at Georgetown, while
Jones earned the NCAA career
shutout record with 47 for the University of Virginia.
Opening weekend for the NWSL
is set for April 13 and 14. The Spirit
will open on the road against the
Boston Breakers on April 14. The
home opener is April 20 against
Olympic gold medalists Abby
Wambach and Carli Lloyd and
the Western New York Flash.
The Virginia/DC Soccer Hall of
Fame inducted the class of 2013 at
the annual HOF Dinner in Richmond on Feb. 1.
Inducted were former William &
Mary All-America and Major
League Soccer veteran Steve Jolley
in the Player Category, and Jim
Ferguson, Steve Goff and Anne
Thompson in the Meritorious Category.
Ferguson and Thompson are
longtime administrators locally and
on the state level with Virginia
Youth Soccer, while Goff is the
veteran soccer writer for The
Washington Post. Goff has covered soccer on a regular basis since
1992.
Jolly was unable to attend the
induction and accepting for him
was his college coach at W&M, Al
Albert.
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They Called Him ‘The Flying Bus’ At Dartmouth
Brian Wiese ‘Engineered’ Hoyas’ 2012 Success
By Dean Linke
Brian Wiese could be building
bridges instead of building winning
soccer team.
“Once I realized I wouldn’t want to
drive over any bridge that I designed, I
knew that coaching is where I should
be,” Wiese said with a chuckle as he
talked about his master’s of science degree in mechanical engineering from
Stanford (he also has a bachelor of arts
in the same field form Dartmouth College in New Hampshire).
The Georgetown Hoyas are glad he
put down the stencil and straight edge.
Earlier in January in Indianapolis, Wiese
was named the 2013 NSCAA Men’s
Division I Coach of the Year, after taking the Hoyas to the final of the College Cup in just his sixth season.
“Yes, I guess you could say I ‘bamboozled’ my wife,” Wiese continued
with the laughter. “When we got married Becky thought I was going to be
a full-time mechanical engineer, where
the pay is good and the hours are manageable. Instead, I told her I wanted to
take a job, which barely pays anything
… it can be extremely volatile … and
I will be gone most weekends.
“Thankfully, I have the best wife
in the world and it was the perfect
combination. I didn’t want to be a mediocre engineer and I had a great situation to work under one of the best
mentors a coach could have, (former
Stanford and current Notre Dame head
coach) Bobby Clark.
Georgetown Hoyas’ Head Coach Brian Wiese
“Bobby is the best teacher in the
game and to have him as a mentor,
there is so much luck in that, it’s almost comical. I took a big time roll of
the dice. I wanted to do it, I needed to
do it and I love what I do … I love
coaching.”
Wiese, a goalkeeper, and his
brother, Andrew, both played for
Clark at Dartmouth College. Clark
would hire Wiese at Stanford after his
assistant coach, Geoff Wheeler, took
the head coaching job at Wesleyan
University in Middletown, Conn.
Wiese would follow Clark to Notre
Dame before Georgetown hired him
as the top man in 2006.
“You are calling about the ‘Flying
Bus,” Clark said in his unmistakable
Scottish accent. “That’s what I would
call Brian. He is a big man and he
would always wear this bright yellow
and green jersey and fly around in the
goal. He looked like the Glasgow Corporation bus and any time he would
eat too many cheeseburgers, I would
call him the ‘Flying Double Decker!’
“You could always have fun with
Brian, because not only is he one of
the best soccer coaches I have ever
worked with, he has great humility. He
comes from an amazing family and he
is very, very funny.
“Not everybody knows that about
Brian, but, truth is, as much as I miss his
coaching, I really miss him at the banquets.
People don’t realize that Brian Wiese used
to do improv comedy and he was the high-
light of our banquets.
“He really was,” Clark continued.
“But he gets very serious about his
soccer. And, it’s no surprise that he has
achieved great success at Georgetown.
He is deserving of the NSCAA award
and he has a bright future in the game.”
The 2012 season was the brightest
in Georgetown history. Wiese’s Hoyas
concluded the year with a 19-4-3 overall record, the most wins recorded in a
single season by the team.
In addition to the College Cup final, a 1-0 loss to Indiana, Wiese led
the Hoyas to the Big East Blue Division regular season championship, and
a trip to the Big East Tournament
championship game.
This from a team that was
unranked to start the season.
“Good players make coaches look
great,” said Wiese. “And, I will always
defer to the players. The captains and
senior leadership on this team was
amazing. They ran the show. I didn’t
have to push them. They were driven
and focused from the start, including
our trip to Barcelona in the spring.
Denson, DiBartolo Re-Elected
Kevin Denson, head soccer coach
at Colonial High School in Virginia
Beach, has been re-elected to the
NSCAA Board of Directors as the
Youth Representative (Boys). Gerry
DiBartolo, men’s head coach at
Salisbury University (MD) has also
been re-elected to the BOD as the
“Then, when that first coaches’ poll
came out in August and we weren’t
receiving votes, they were mad. But
we decided then and throughout the
entire season to not look at the polls,
but to simply play.”
That strong senior class would do
more than simply play. They would help
Wiese’s Hoyas through a difficult
schedule with late-game victories. Included in these triumphs were wins over
Marquette, Syracuse, and Maryland.
Four of Wiese’s players were selected in the Major League Soccer
drafts. Tommy Muller, Ian
Christianson, and Jimmy Nealis
were taken 15th, 22nd, and 37th, respectively, in the MLS SuperDraft, and
midfielder Andy Riemer was selected
in the MLS Supplemental Draft as the
sixth pick.
Muller will head to the San Jose
Earthquakes, Christianson to the New
York Red Bulls, Nealis will ply his trade
with the Houston Dynamo, and Riemer
will join the Los Angeles Galaxy.
The MLS draft and the NSCAA
awards ceremony were held in Indianapolis and Wiese said it was fitting
that former NSCAA President Paul
Payne was also there when he received
his award.
“When Bobby hired me at
Stanford, I remember him saying to
me, ‘If you are stupid enough to give
up engineering to become a coach,
then you have to go back to school.’
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Regional Odds & End Briefs From The Southeast USA
Soccer In Arkansas
Bentonville High School girls soccer coach
Kristina Henry was selected as the Southwest Regional Women’s Coach of the Year for Division I
High School Girls. Henry is also a club coach with
NWA Lightning SC and a member of the ASSA
Olympic Development Program (ODP) coaching
staff.....University of Arkansas head coach Colby
Hale signed 11 players in his first recruiting class
for the Razorbacks, including one player from Arkansas, McKinzie James who played for Rogers
HS that won Arkansas state championships four
consecutive seasons......Klay Babin, one of Arkansas’ top soccer referees, recently won the
2012 ESPN/Disney Referee of the Year Award,
which is an annual award they bestow upon a
referee who had a good year at their
events.....Arkansas Razorbacks senior soccer
forward Allie Chandler has been named to the
SEC Community Service Team.
Soccer In Kentucky
Eastern Kentucky University has hired Melissa
Barnes, an assistant coach at UNC Wilmington, as
its new women’s soccer coach. Barnes takes over
the Colonels program after five seasons at
UNCW.....The Commonwealth Soccer Club in Lexington has named Matt Wilkerson interim Executive Director of the club. Wilkerson has been part
of the club since 2003 and is known to many of the
players as simply “Wilco.”....University of Kentucky senior midfielder Cameron Wilder
(Kennesaw, GA) was picked in the third round of
the 2013 MLS Supplemental Draft by FC Dallas.
He is the fourth Wildcat player to have been drafted
by a MLS team...Alex Carter, a midfielder from
Conway, Arkansas, enrolled early at the University
of Kentucky and will take part in the Wildcats
women’s soccer spring training. Carter played for
the Arkansas Rush....Former Western Kentucky
goalkeeper Libby Stout (Louisville/DuPont Manual
HS) is playing professionally in France for Yzeure
Allier Auvergne in Division One Football Feminine
League.....Former University of Louisville assistant
coach Carmelna Moscato has been allocated to play
for the Chicago Red Stars of the National Women’s
Soccer League. Moscato is a Canadian Women’s National Team player.
Soccer In Louisiana
Louisiana State head coach Brian Lee has gone international for his 2013 recruiting class of five outstanding players. All five are international. Forward Summer Clarke, defender Rebecca Pongetti and
midfielder Emma Fletcher are all from Canada and
midfielder Natalia Gomez-Junco is from Monterrey,
Mexico. Defender Megan Lee hails from New
Zealand....Nicole Newton, a senior midfielder at Episcopal High School (Baton Rouge, La.) has been selected as the Girls NSCAA High School Player of the
Week for February 13. Newton scored five goals in
her first two playoff games, leading her team to consecutive 8-0 victories. The three-time All-State
midfielder finished the regular season with 36 goals
and 19 assists. Newton has committed to play soccer
at Birmingham Southern College (Birmingham,
Ala.).....What do all nine McNeese State soccer recruits
have in common? They will all be McNeese Cowgirls
in the fall and all nine hail from the state of
Texas.....University of Louisiana Monroe head coach
Roberto Mazza announced a recruiting class of 20
players, including four from Mississippi: D Somer
Anderson (Soso), and three Ridgeland HS teammates,
F/MF Mary Ashton Lembo, D Rhae’ven Ellis and D
Olivia Travis. The Warhawks also signed GK
Katherine Werther from Lafayette, LA.....University
of Maryland junior Patrick Mullins, the 2012 MAC
Hermann Trophy winner and a native of New Orleans,
has played soccer the past two summers in the USL’s
Premier Development League with the hometown New
Orleans Jesters.
Soccer In Maryland
The University of Maryland Terps were the top offensive men’s Division I offensive team in the country,
scoring 64 goals while averaging 2.67 goals per game.
With a 14-0-1 record to start the 2012 season, Maryland matched its best start since the 1968 season when
the Terps were co-national champions.....Former University of Maryland women’s soccer forwards Ashley
Grove (Rochester, NY) and Jasyne Spencer (Bay
Shore, NY) were selected in the National Women’s
Soccer League Supplemental Draft. Spencer was taken
by the Boston Breakers in the fourth group and Grove
went in the fifth to the Western New York Flash.....For
the second consecutive year, UMBC soccer standout
Liam Paddock earned the America East Fall 2012
Scholar-Athlete Aard for the sport of men’s soccer.
Paddock is a senior from England.
Soccer In Mississippi
David Dixon has resigned as the head coach for the
Mississippi Brilla of the USL Premier Development
League to accept a position with the USL PRO Charlotte Eagles as an assistant coach. In addition to serving as head coach for Brilla’s PDL team, he also led
their youth club Over five years, his teams had a record
of 47-18-17 and captured three PDL conference championships. In 2010 he was named a finalist for PDL
Coach of the Year....Head Coach Aaron Gordon’s first
recruiting class at Mississippi State was six strong and
included a pair of Mississippi prep standouts, Tupelo
midfielder Abby Phillips and Starkville’s Tiffany
Huddleston.....Thomas Velek of Columbus, MS, was
named US Youth Soccer National Male Recreation
Coach of the Year at the US Youth Soccer Awards Gala
in Indianapolis in January. Velek was also Mississippi’s
state COY and the Region III Recreation Coach of the
Year. Belhaven men’s head coach Brian McMahon
has been named NAIA National Coach of the Year after leading his team to the 2012 NAIA national cham-
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pionship and a 19-4-1 record.....Belhaven College
added two junior college transfers for the spring
semester. Haley Crosby (Hattiesburg) is a
midfielder who transfers as a junior from Jones
Junior College. Paige Killebrew, also a junior,
comes from Mississippi Gulf Coast Community
College.
Soccer In West Virginia
West Virginia Wesleyan men’s coach Gavin
Donaldson has signed three players for the fall
of 2013, including MF Adam Fox (Charleston
Catholic) and MF Alex White (Hurricane HS).
The third is forward Tre’ Taliaferro from
Ridgeland, Miss.....Marshall University has broken ground on a new $8 million soccer complex,
which will include seating for 1,000, with expansion capability for another 1,000. Another part
of the project is a $14 million Indoor Athletics
Facility. Eric Ryan Jones, an artist who is a
former standout soccer player for the Thundering Herd, has produced 30-40 pictures with a
Marshall sports emphasis which will be available
by auction to benefit the school’s $20 million
Vision Campaign that is funding the athletic
development....Sophomore goalkeeper Sara
Keane (Mt. Laurel, NJ) was named the Most
Valuable Player for the 2012 season for the West
Virginia women’s Big 12 champions. She posted
a 0.94 ga with eight shutouts. Outside back Bry
McCarthy, a senior defender from Ontario was
the team’s Most Defensive Player. Forward Kate
Schwindel (Livingston, NJ) a sophomore forward, was the Mounties’ Most Offensive Player
award winner....The Washington Spirit has selected former West Virginia Mountaineer in the
National Women’s Soccer League Supplemental
Draft. Megan Mischler has spent two seasons
playing in Sweden. With WVU, Mischler helped
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Ole Miss Recruit Set State Scoring Mark With 231 Goals
Back To School
Forbus Working Hard To Be A Better Player
By Adam Minichino
When you play to win, good things happen.
That’s a motto Addie Forbus is going to carry
with her later this year to the University of Mississippi.
Judging from Forbus’ success in high school,
that mentality should serve her well at the next
level.
The Amory High School (Miss.) senior, who
earlier this season set the state’s single-season
record for goals in a season by a boy or girl with
231, signed earlier this month with Ole Miss. The
5-foot-7, 120-pounder had verbally committed
to Ole Miss as a sophomore.
Forbus started playing high school soccer as
an eighth-grader, and led her team, which plays in
Class 4A in the Mississippi High School Activities Association, in goals each of her six seasons.
She had 40 goals and 22 assists as a freshman, 52 goals (a state record for goals in a season) and 18 assists as a sophomore, 41 and nine
as a junior, and 50 and 15 this season to break
the record held by Greene County’s Kelsey
Cochran (226).
“I don’t think it has really hit me yet,” said
Forbus, who plays her club soccer with the
Collierville (Tenn.) Lobos and the Birmingham
(Ala.) United 95 Elite team. She also was a member of the Mississippi 95 Girls Olympic Development Region III championship team.
“I was playing to win and (breaking the record
for goals in a season) was not my focal point,
but I am not complaining. It wasn’t until the latter half of the season when I realized something
was coming up and I would have a great chance.”
Forbus said quickness with the ball at her feet
and her ability to see the field are her strengths.
She also feels she has a good strike on the ball
and a poise on the field that allows her to sort
things out when they get crazy. She also admits
she can be too unselfish at times.
“I can’t stop because I accomplished this,”
Forbus said of the scoring record. “This is when
I need to keep going and push myself even more.
Nathan Clayton coached Forbus the past five
seasons at Amory High. He said Forbus’ involvement with state and regional ODP teams and her
club teams helped polish her game and has her
primed for the next step.
“She is an unbelievable player,” Clayton said.
“She has just got a lot of great ability and has
had outstanding training. She made a great com-
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And, he was talking about the NSCAA. I was
lucky enough to work with Paul Payne for
both of my NSCAA diplomas.
“I didn’t know who Paul was, but he was
so positive, so encouraging … I mean I remember thinking this guy is great. He has so
much insight on the game. He spends time
with you on how to organize your thinking,
your sessions, and your progress.
“He was able to cement what we were doing
without even thinking about it. Paul and all of
the NSCAA coaches really do provide a wonderful environment to learn and to grow.”
Finally, Wiese says that without the tireless dedication of longtime Georgetown coach
(and color analyst for the NSCAA Game of
the Week on Fox Soccer) Keith Tabatznik
as well as the push from the Big East to prioritize men’s soccer, none of this success
could be possible.
“When you have a guy as respected and
knowledgeable as Keith Tabatznik, who is the
longest tenured coach in the program history (22
years), how do you not take advantage of that,”
Wiese said. “Keith loves this program, he loves
the school and he has a great sense of ownership
and pride in the brand. He spoke to the team before we went to the College Cup and he will always be a part of Georgetown soccer.
“Keith built this program on just a couple of
scholarships. I came in just when the Big East
made men’s soccer a priority with new initiatives and scholarships. We will always be grateful for the work of Keith Tabatznik and the support of the Big East.”
The rest of us are grateful Brian Wiese focused on building the sport of soccer … not
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mitment to soccer, and she has a natural instinct
and touch on the ball. She does a lot of stuff that
it is tough to get kids to do.”
Ole Miss coach Matthew Mott said Forbus
has the potential to make an immediate impact.
Ole Miss (13-9) lost to the University of Florida
2-1 in the second round of the SEC tournament.
“The great thing about Addie is she has done
everything she can to continue to improve her
game,” Mott said.
“She committed to us the summer before her
sophomore year. A lot of kids say, ‘Well, I got
my scholarship offer and I don’t have to work
very hard. That’s the exact opposite of Addie.
She has taken it and run with it and tried to be
the best player she can be when she gets here.”
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favor. Now every ACL-injured player is going
to expect to return to MVP form in less than nine
months when most are just able play after 12
months and then may be many more months before they return to their pre-injury ability.
Give your doctor a break and help the player
get back sooner. Pull the player out and initiate
PRICE. Remember the details about how the injury happened and don’t self-diagnose and see a
sports physician.
Finally, be realistic about recovery and return
to play. A poorly healed minor injury frequently
precedes a major injury to the same, or other,
body part.
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