In October, U.S. soccer fans wanted blood. They wanted change and they wanted it yesterday. They wanted to see something tangible to show U.S. Soccer was actually trying. Finally, they have something. Nearly five months after the USMNT failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, U.S. Soccer announced its first major youth initiative to help ensure such failure never happens again: bio-banding.
At first there was the phenomenon of the Hollywood player, when the likes of David Beckham and Thierry Henry migrated to the world of American soccer. No need to mention Zlatan here, that’s just sad, isn’t it? These larger-than-life players spending their final playing days on MLS pitches was entertaining, but not alarming. They didn’t barricade entry to other players — namely young, talented American players. The clubs did.
For the last four days, Argentina’s national team has been training at Manchester City’s Etihad Campus in preparation for tomorrow’s friendly against Italy at the City of Manchester Stadium. Accordingly, resident Citizens Sergio Aguero and Nicolas Otamendi have been showing the likes of Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuain, Angel Di Maria and Javier Mascherano around.
The Manchester City social team has been all over it.
Get ready for Friday!
She’s here — the savior of American paleontology. A seven-year-old fossil hoarder of rare vision, technique and digging skills. Will the United States Women’s Paleontology National Team (USWPNT) win the 2032 Fossil-Finding World Cup? If Naomi Vaughan keeps up her recent form over the next 15 years, definitely.
Sorry, as a soccer website, it’s our responsibility to hype these sorts of things to an ungodly degree.
Cuando crecí jugando al fútbol juvenil tuve compañeros cuyos padres les daban dinero cuando marcaban. No recibían grandes sumas, pero tal vez 5-10 dólares por gol. Cuando me enteré de esto, me enfadé. Por ejemplo, ¿por qué no ganaba dinero por marcar? Pero más seriamente, me preocupaba que algunos de mis compañeros estuvieran más interesados en anotar ellos mismos que en ayudar a que el equipo anote. Entonces, ¿deberían los padres pagar a sus hijos por marcar goles en el fútbol juvenil?
If you want to turn your child into the next Brian “McHead” McBride, at what age should you start sand wedging some crosses at their malleable dome piece? Well, in America, we have rules for this sort of thing.
Back in 2015, the U.S. Soccer Federation announced that children 10 years or under should abstain from heading the ball. Additionally, players from the ages of 11 to 13 were now limited to practicing the skill in training with headers still outlawed in games.
Cristiano Ronaldo Jr. ya parece mejor jugador que su querido padre. Esta impresionante patada de bicicleta es una prueba.
El hijo de Ronaldo estaba jugando en el campo del Bernabéu con el hijo de Marcelo cuando el centrocampista del Real Madrid Lucas Vázquez lanzó un balón al área para los dos muchachos. Ronaldo Jr. midió su salto y lanzó su bota hacia el balón para un gol de patada de bicicleta perfectamente ejecutado.
TAMBIÉN TE PUEDE GUSTAR: Kid Soccer Fails
With Neymar potentially out for the rest of the season, Lucas Moura gone to Tottenham Hotspur, Kylian Mbappe nursing a right ankle injury and Edinson Cavani and Javier Pastore being rested in preparation for Real Madrid in the Champions League next week, it looks like 18-year-old American youth international Timothy Weah will make his PSG debut on Saturday against Troyes.
Weah, the son of 1995 Ballon d'Or winner George Weah, is not even listed as being on the first team on PSG's website.