Chelsea Football Club announced today the start of an unprecedented initiative to partner with Americas top youth football clubs.
Chelsea is beginning to build a network of top youth clubs across America to develop Chelsea Soccer Schools, a new Tournament called the Chelsea Sevens, coaching clinics and exchange programmes. Click to continue reading...

The Baltimore Bays, led by 2008 Gatorade Player of the Year Chris Agorsor, will be facing LAFC in the U-18 championship match after both teams clinched the top spot in their respective groups this afternoon. The inaugural Development Academy championship on the Mooch Myernick Field at The Home Depot Center will be shown live on ESPN2 at 8 p.

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The Cary RailHawks U23s gave Burnley Football Club a rude introduction to the game we call "soccer" here in America with a 2-1 victory over the Clarets on Thursday night at WakeMed Soccer Park.
The match was the first of a two match tour for the English Championship side who will also play the Minnesota Thunder after a few more days of training at WakeMed Soccer Park this weekend. Click to continue reading...

Concorde Fire's U18 Boy's Academy Team clinched the Southeast Conference of the USSF Development Academy. The lads at Concorde defeated Potomac by a margin of 2-0 to clinch their spot in the 2008 Development Academy Finals Week.

The Academy Finals will be held in Carson, CA at the Home Depot Center from July 12-19 and will be nationally televised on ESPN2 or ESPNU. Click to continue reading...

Below is a list of all of the Adult leagues, both outdoor and indoor, in the greater Atlanta area that I know of. By all means, email me with the leagues I've missed.
I'm looking for any feedback you guys have here. Thing of interest to readers might be cost, travel distances, competitiveness, referee quality, field quality, league integrity (do you get your promised number of games, etc. Click to continue reading...

I've mentioned this before, but it's still interesting how the media seems to relish in highlighting the behavior of soccer parents when other sports have their issues too. A few years ago, Raleigh's Parks and Rec department put up chain link fences to keep parents away from the (pointy) football fields. This was in [...] Click to continue reading...