The most ambitious players in American elite youth soccer have been aware for some time that the best developmental opportunities may not be so close to home. Players have been leaving home to...

12-year old Emerson Hyndman played up 2 years at the U14 National ID camp and with the Region III ODP team. Now he's attracting interest from the pros. Read more about this talented youngster and...

Tampa Bay standouts and identical twins Shelby and Sydney Payne recently returned home from the U15 Girls National Team camp in California. The girls are just starting the recruiting process but...

Austin Oldham has been on fire lately.That may be in part because he has been going through the fire for the past 3 years.The mercurial Carmel United forward has really hit his stride in the last few...

The spring season in college soccer can be a bit of a chore. The matches don’t exactly count and with a season length even more limited by NCAA rules than the main season in the fall, it can...

A few eyebrows were raised when Ashley Rape wasn’t the leading scorer for her high school team this year.The Dallas-area standout is known as one of the best players in the country, helping her...

In some ways, Matt Kassel’s progression as a standout American soccer player has mirrored the game’s development here in the United States.  As a toddler he got a brief but intense...

Dallas Texans and U17 Men's National Team player Jared Jeffrey is close to realizing his dreams of playing overseas as a professional. Jeffrey, who turns 18 on June 14, will join the Club Brugge...

To an onlooker it may have seemed like something of a watershed moment at the December ODP Girls Interregional in Florida.With the U15 Girls National Team facing the Region I 91s, the tall midfielder...

Editor's Note: Top Drawer Soccer contributor and freelance author Rebecca Thatcher Murcia recently moved with her 2 sons from Pennsylvania to Colombia to be near her late husband's family....