GAM money from the Galaxy is lining the pockets of Chicago in the amount of $75,000 for the right of first refusal for the 29 year old Juninho. The Brazilian was with the Fire in 2017 while out on loan from Club Tijuana getting one goal and 2 assists over 21 games, 17 starts. This money will be in play for 2020.
A total of 67 teams were awared this at different level. Platinum is for those not receiving any cards, all season long. Gold, silver & Bronze is determined by a percentage calcualted by the total number of cards issed divided by the number of games played. Yes NY even Long Island had a few in this list. States are not listed, so it is possible the school is the same name but not a local school others as the coach is known it is certain. Some would not see this as good thing, teams not playing with heart effort etc.
New inductees for this HOF will be Susan Ellis & John Kerr Jr. of Chapel Hill, Sandra Serafini of Durham, Duke University's Men's Program & the 1996 Greensboro United Soccer Association Navy Capture Girls soccer team to the National Champions Hall of Honor within the HOF. The 22nd edition of this event takes place Jan. 26 at the Marriott Winston-Salem. now for the inductees:
He no longer counts as a foreign player, having gotten his green card in 2017, this 25 year old is in the windy city for 2019 with the club holding his option for 2020. A forward who tore up the NCAA while at Creighton, was on the watch list for the Hermannn Trophy as a junior and his 15 goals and 17 assists were good for Big East Offensive Player of the Year in 2015. Overall a stellar college career in his three years as a Bluejay, he struck for 28 goals in 57 games, a torrid rate.
The top tier in US soccer has now gone with single elimination, this will benefit the better teams as they will have home field advantage in each series as it is now one game, in this one game set up the home team has a win rate of 67.3% as opposed to the 55.1% in a home and home series. This one game only series will reward the team with the better regular season record. The entire playoffs will be contested in Oct. & Nov., this 3 week 2nd season will be between the FIFA windows. The entire playoffs will occur between Oct. 19 with the MLS Cup on Nov. 10.
This defender with the US Deaf WNT lead her team to a record setting advancement in the Deaf World Cup, she also plays at nationally ranked Centre College. With her first appearance back in 2015, the player is now just 19 and anchored the US team with a goal facing Great Britan and her spot on the Best XI All-World Cup Team as her defense conceeded all but 2 goals tourney wide.
Literally the same day USSF called me back as I inquired on coaching licenses, by their count it had been "weeks", comes this announcement. This dozen, the 3rd such group is down quite a bit from the 17 in the last one, and the 13 of the first one, it is rather expensive and takes a year to complete, a check of the grads shows all to be pro coaches, where I am sure their clubs are bearing the cost and if not it is of course a write off, not the case for most coaches in the nation or those such as myself with lower licenses ( I have a c).
Going bi coastal but avoiding the massive costs of travel with play between each of the two coasts. The title game is expected to feature a team from each of these two. The set up will serve to build rivalries and build the buzz of this tourney as it goes from Aug. to Nov. 2019. This will be the lead in to a full schedule for spring to fall in 2020. Michael Collins of Hicksville is the President/General Manager for the California United Strikers team, his team is joined by ASC San Diego, Cal FC, FC Arizona, & Oakland Roots.
As they warm up for their sophmore season, USL side, Nashville Soccer Club who knocked off an MLS club in the US Open Cup look for their 2nd 1st tier victim in NYCFC. They are set to join MLS themselves after a mere 2 years of existence in 2020. In the inagural season, they were good for 8th in their conference, making the playoffs, losing to 2019 MLS entrant FC Cincinnati on pks in the opening round. Claudio Reyna, we have mentioned his son Giovanni a good deal of late, stated "Our game against Nashville should be an exciting match.
The Seattle Reign FC now have her and turned over thier first round pick, the 9th overall for the player who just finished 2nd year after spending all of the first injured, and was herself a # 7 pick in 2017. Out of UCLA, she saw no gametime in 2017 due to her severe leg injury. Her pro debut was in the 2nd half in the home opener, facing Portland, getting in on13 games and 178 minutes of time.
