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Most prospective student athletes search for a college by visiting multiple campuses in order to find the perfect fit.  Campus tours, meetings with coaches and other research efforts take place during much of a player's sophomore, junior and even senior year of high school. But for some... 

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To call them a Cinderella story really isn’t accurate. If you only pay casual attention to elite youth soccer in this country, than maybe you don’t know the Carmel United U16 Boys Academy team. But... 

CARSON, CALIF - No one said winning championships is easy, but Friday night’s USSF Development Academy Finals Week U18 championship game at Home Depot Center... 

Thousands of girls throughout the United States play soccer with the dream of one day playing for the U.S. National Team.  Thousands more play ice hockey with the hopes of eventually playing for the U.S. Olympic Team. The conventional wisdom is you can’t...

The complete 2008 adidas ESP All-Star game is just one of the items available for viewing on the new Video section of TopDrawerSoccer.com. With a number of interviews and match highlights...

So Cal Blues player Lauren Matheson betrays her natural instincts with her self-description. Asked how she would describe herself to someone who had never...

With more than 100 teams and thousands of players on hand in late June for the USSF Development Academy Showcase in Greensboro, NC, it might have been easy to miss a group...

How often have we heard the proverbial saying: A key ingredient to success is preparation.  Well, this statement proves itself true when it comes to college soccer. The transition from youth soccer...

DENVER – Teamwork was the watchword on the final day of adidas ESP here at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park Tuesday.  The closure of the event saw Ross Paule’s squad take the...

DENVER - Team Dos Santos took a 2-1 win in a match that featured 3 lovely goals. Alex Martinez again showed his ability to run with the ball, weaving through defenders on a 40-yard foray...

DENVER - PDA midfielder Scott Thomsen continued to knock hard on the door of Bradenton Residency with an outstanding match here Monday, helping Team Paule to a 4-1 win over Team Mondelo. Thomsen's crossing from the left has been good...

DENVER - The adidas ESP All-Star game, was played Monday night here at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, with Team Predator defeating Team adiPure 4-0. TopDrawerSoccer.com has recorded a webcast of...

DENVER - Louisville-area midfielder Lepekola Seetane scored a nicely-worked goal in the early going here, and the tally held up for Team Caligiuri in a 1-0 win over Team Dos Santos. The result and even the match itself were overshadowed...

DENVER - With the 2nd day of matches complete here at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, attention will now turn to the coveted all-star game berths prior to Monday night's showcase...

DENVER - The first-day matches here at the premier player ID event in the country are usually a little bit slow as naturally nervous players struggle to work together. Today...

The best college player ID event in the country is underway in the Mile High City. This year’s version of adidas ESP includes 110 players from the 2010 and 2011 graduation... Staff Reports

A rare combination is how Don Ebert describes Bobby Wood. Ebert should know, he’s coached the Irvine Strikers forward for some time now, and has continued to monitor his progress...

Vogt, in accordance with many others, believes that the future of soccer lies in the USSF Academy program. B.W. Gottschee and Met Oval, two top clubs that have teams participating in the CJSL, were among the first teams chosen for...

In the past, the July 1^st contact date, which allows college coaches to call high school seniors for the first time, represented a major component of the recruiting process. But with...

GREENSBORO, NC - It was here at Turfside Chapel in Greensboro, otherwise known as Bryan Soccer Park, that the faithful gathered for Sunday morning activity in the U.S. Soccer Developmental...

I arrived at Bryan Park at around 8 a.m., nearly 30 minutes before the first kickoffs scheduled for Saturday, but after most of the teams playing at that time. A lot of the teams are growing...

GREENSBORO, NC - The matches here Friday involving the U17 Men’s National Team were a study in diversity. In the first game, the Bridge FA U16s defeated an experimental side in national team jerseys by a...

Day One in Greensboro saw tons of action and lots of excitement  Top Drawer Soccer will be providing wall-to-wall coverage of the event, including...

GREENSBORO, NC - Amid the 62 matches at the USSF Development Academy Summer Showcase Friday was a pretty nice story about about perseverance. The Atlanta Fire United U18 squad has been through a lot lately. A new director of coaching at the club...

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As college soccer is changing more and more into a “kick and run” game, physical fitness is essential.  Since the period between the first day of college training camp and the first game is so short...

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How often have we heard the proverbial saying: A key ingredient to success is preparation.  Well, this statement proves itself true when it comes to college soccer. The transition from youth soccer to college...

RALEIGH, NC – The news flash from Raleigh is that penalty kicks are still an awful way to decide a match, but after 110 minutes in the Carolina heat, Dallas Texans and CASL were left...

Carriages have turned into pumpkins for another 20 teams competing at the US Youth Soccer Region III Championships in Raleigh and Wilson. Only four teams remain in each age group as they prepare for tomorrow’s semifinal matches and their chance at the lucrative slot in the US Youth Soccer National...

HONOLULU – Sixteen US Youth Soccer Region IV Champions won titles Sunday and the 12 teams representing the Under-14 through Under-19 boys and girls divisions have earned...

New York City is a common destination for all different types of people.  Many enter into the city alone for the first time, intimidated by the vast size and unaware what to expect.  The adjustment to living in the...

ST. LOUIS - It’s a curious thing that the Scott Gallagher SC U16 Boys struggled in the inaugural season of the USSF Development Academy this year, because Tommy Howe’s team played...

ST. LOUIS – Jim Barlow’s U15 Boys National Team played 2 matches with widely varying results here Thursday. The group widely recognized as the 1st team took an impressive 4-0 win over...

Win or go home was the mantra for teams competing at the US Youth Soccer Region IV Championships. With the preliminary round-robin games coming to a close and berths in quarterfinal brackets on the line, every team came out of the gates with one thing on their mind – advance. The Slammers Under-15...

Driving along the pretty rural countryside west of St. Louis, you might not expect to come across the most extensive collection of elite youth soccer talent in the country. But there they were Wednesday night...

Scott Gallagher SC has a lovely complex in progress here, and Tuesday night the U15 and U17 Men’s National Teams gathered to compete in a pair of matches out in the country. It was the lone...

This was no vacation, but he knew that. It didn’t take long for Kovi Konowiecki, then a 14-year old from Long Beach, CA, to realize the course he was taking would be inherently difficult. Kovi had decided to accept an invitation from German...

In closing this series we look ahead and possible revisions, changes and, hopefully, improvements to the program. The 2 areas we hear the most about in regard to change are adding younger...

CHICAGO – U.S. Under-20 Women’s National Team head coach Tony DiCicco will bring 24 players to Park City, Utah, for a training camp from June 8-13, which will serve as the final preparation before...