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Some of the top girls soccer players in the Midwest will be playing in Madison this weekend.
An Elite Clubs National League Elite Player Development Program, featuring 45 players from FC
Milwaukee, Minnesota Thunder Academy, Sockers FC-Chicago and St. Louis Scott Gallagher, will be
held indoors at the McClain Facility on the University of Wisconsin campus.
Some of the top girls soccer players in the Midwest will be playing in Madison this weekend.
An Elite Clubs National League Elite Player Development Program, featuring 45 players from FC
Milwaukee, Minnesota Thunder Academy, Sockers FC-Chicago and St. Louis Scott Gallagher, will be
held indoors at the McClain Facility on the University of Wisconsin campus.
The North Dakota State University Women's Soccer team has a new head coach. Mark Cook, who has been
director of coaching for both Bangu and the Minnesota Thunder Academy for the past 11 years, was
announced as the new head coach of the Division I school filling the void left by outgoing coach
Pete Cuadrado [.
What a difference a year makes. Last winter Minnesota's two U.S. Development Academy programs,
Minnesota Thunder Academy and Schattuck-St.Mary's entered into their first Academy Winter Showcase
that was held in Arizona. This year, with a year under each programs belt, the faired slioghtly
better. Last year the MTA Boys U-15/16 team went 2-0-1 (7-points) in [.
Mukwelle Akale and Max Stiegwardt from the Minnesota Thunder Academy have both been called into the
Boys U.S. U-15 National Team camp for the 2nd time this year. Both were formerly called into
numerous U.S. U-14 camps and were called into the last U-15 camp in mid-October at the Home Depot
Center in Carson, CA.
"Is standing in the soccer wall really worth it?" That's the question Yokal Sports and Scott
Schneweis ask. A humorous look at "the wall" in soccer using the Minneapolis, Minnesota Augsburg
College soccer team to help answer the question. If you recall, Schneweis did a video story back
in 2008 when the Minnesota Thunder brought in the Los Angeles [.
Minnesota Thunder Academies Boys Director Rob Zahl and Shattuck-St. Mary's Director of Soccer Tim
Carter reflect on their first season in the Development Academy and look forward to the coming
year. The weekend of November 19th and 20th will see Minnesota's two U.S. Soccer Development
Academy programs back in action for the 2011-2012 season.
The 2011-12 Development Academy Season Rolls on.The weekly Development Academy newsletter is out. Read it here.
Some highlights:
- U.S. U-15 Boys National Team Camp Continues - U.S. Soccer Director of Scouting Tony Lepore has
called 36 players into camp, which began last Sunday, Oct.
Mukwelle Akale from DeLaSalle High School and the Minnesota Thunder Academy (MTA) and Max
Stiegwardt also from MTA have been called into the US U-15 National Team camp. Both players have
participated regularly with the U-14′s but this is their first u-15 camp as head coach Tony
Lepore has called 36 players into the week long training [.
We talked to Development Academy Technical Advisor Tim Regan as he gears up for the 2011-12
Development Academy season during a recent swing through the Chicago office. Regan is the Technical
Advisor for the Frontier Division as well as a few teams in the Great Lakes Division (BTW he
watches about 50 games during the year, not including Playoffs and Finals Week!
MINNESOTA SOCCER HISTORY NIGHT September 2, 2011 Blaine, MN. The NSC Minnesota Stars will be
hosting a Minnesota Soccer History Night presented by MYSA and Brick's American Pub on Saturday,
September 10. Celebrate the history of soccer in Minnesota and get the chance to meet your favorite
former professional players by heading to Blaine [.
MINNESOTA SOCCER HISTORY NIGHT September 2, 2011 Blaine, MN. The NSC Minnesota Stars will be
hosting a Minnesota Soccer History Night presented by MYSA and Brick's American Pub on Saturday,
September 10. Celebrate the history of soccer in Minnesota and get the chance to meet your favorite
former professional players by heading to Blaine [.
STARTERSThe only way Dallas is going to be able to fill the center of their defense left by the departure
of George John is to sign Paul Ringo.
dN
UEFA says Carlos Bocanegra is eligible to play for Rangers in Europa League against Maribor who had
filed an official complaint that he did not have a proper work visa for last weeks game.
The soccer community is a small one in the U.S. No matter where you go it seems there is someone
connected to someone else who you know. That community is even smaller when you break it down to
the state level. In Minnesota, John Sylvester, or Sly as he is known to many of his [...]
Minnesota had two teams that made it through the US Youth Soccer Region II Midwest Regionals and
qualify for the Nationals in Phoenix, Arizona. Both the boys U-16 Minnesota Thunder Elite Academy
and the girls U-19 Woodbury Inferno competed in that tournament last week but neither team
qualified for the final.
Minnesota had two teams that made it through the US Youth Soccer Region II Midwest Regionals and
qualify for the Nationals in Phoenix, Arizona. Both the boys U-16 Minnesota Thunder Elite Academy
and the girls U-19 Woodbury Inferno competed in that tournament last week but neither team
qualified for the final.
Photo courtesy of the NSC and Kyle Hanson
BLAINE, Minn. (July 23, 2011) – Championship games for all divisions of the 27th annual
Schwan's USA CUP, presented by puma, were played on Saturday, July 23, at the National Sports
Center (NSC) in Blaine, Minn., 20 minutes north of Minneapolis/Saint Paul.
Photo courtesy of the NSC and Kyle Hanson
BLAINE, Minn. (July 23, 2011) – Championship games for all divisions of 27th annual Schwan's
USA CUP, presented by puma , were played on Saturday, July 23, at the National Sports Center (NSC)
in Blaine, Minn., 20 minutes north of Minneapolis/Saint Paul.
AURORA, Colo. (July 12, 2011) – Adding to the excitement of the 2010-11 Elite Clubs National
League (ECNL) National Championship, ESPNU and ESPN3 will carry a live broadcast of the U-17
national championship game on Sat., July 16, with coverage beginning at 2 p.m. ET/noon MT from the
Aurora Sports Complex in Aurora, Colo.
Lots of news coming out of Montreal recently. The Impact had announced the resignation of head
coach Marc Dos Santos last month after a very disappointing and poor start. The team was 2-3-7
under Dos Santos this season.
Sporting Director Nick De Santis took over the team on an interim basis and is trying to turn
his squad around.
Only 3 of Minnesota's 13 teams that participated in this years 2011 US Youth Soccer Midwest
Regionals in Fox Cities, Wis., made it to the finals. They were the boys U-16 Minnesota
Thunder Elite Academy, the girls U-17 Minnesota Thunder Academy East
and the girls U-19 Woodbury Inferno.
Minnesota's Mukwelle Akale (Minneapolis, Minn. Minnesota Thunder Academy) and Max Stiegwardt
(Maple Grove, Minn. Minnesota Thunder Academy) were called back into the U.S. Soccer Under-14 Boys'
National Team domestic training camp in Carson, California. That camp started June 12 and will run
through Sunday the 19th.
Minnesota's four USSF Development Academy teams conclude there inagural season this weekend and
both the Minnesota Thunder Academy (MTA) and Shattuck-St.Mary's (SSM) do so with a pair of home
games.
The MTA teams will play their games on Saturday and Sunday at the Dakota County Technical
College Stadium Field.
An African online news source All Africa.com is reporting that the Secretary General of the
Sports Writers Association of Liberia, Roland Mulbah, was attacked by three players from the
Liberian National team on May 31, 2011.
According to the paper:
The players, Anthony Laffor of Super Sports United in South Africa, Francis "Grandpa" Doe of
Egypt's Al-Ahly, and goalkeeper Louis Crayton of the Minnesota Thunder (was actually a former
Minnesota Stars player) in the U.
An African online news source All Africa.com is reporting that the Secretary General of the
Sports Writers Association of Liberia, Roland Mulbah, was attacked by three players from the
Liberian National team on May 31, 2011.
According to the paper:
The players, Anthony Laffor of Super Sports United in South Africa, Francis "Grandpa" Doe of
Egypt's Al-Ahly, and goalkeeper Louis Crayton of the Minnesota Thunder (was actually a former
Minnesota Stars player) in the U.
The near perfect weather finally allowed the 2011 MYSA State Cup to be completed this weekend.
All semifinal and finals were played with the winners determined. The winner in each boys and girls
age group will now move on to represent Minnesota in the regionals.
Here are your 2011 State Cup Champions
BOYS
U13 – Minnesota Thunder Academy West
U-14 – Minnesota Thunder Elite Academy
U-15 – Minneapolis United Soccer Club
U-16 – Minnesota Thunder Elite Academy
U-17 – Shattuck-St.
The long cold winter turned into the long cold and wet spring of 2011. It not only pushed back
the flowers from blooming and the trees from leafing out, it has also effected the Minnesota Youth
Soccer Association's State Cup. Because of weather delays many of the semi-finals and all of the
finals have been pushed back to this weekend.
U-15/16 Performer of the Week: Andrew Epstein – Goalkeeper, Colorado Rapids
Epstein played in both of the Colorado Rapids two games last weekend, giving up just one goal and
helping the team to a 1-0-1 record. Epstein, born in 1996 and one of the youngest Rapids players,
was in goal for a 2-1 win against St.
STARTERS
Will Landon Donovan be in the LA lineup tonight in Toronto?
STORY OF THE DAY
Bryan Chouinard of the Daily Utah Chronicle, sporting one hell of a handlebar stache, calls RSL v
Colorado the best rivalry in MLS.
-No comment.
Michael C Lewis of the Salt Lake Tribune also looks at the rivalry.
STARTERSHuzzah! Cudos! Hip Hip Hooray! (I am being forced to write this!) (Just kidding.) Brighton & Hove
Albion won promotion today from League One in England to the Championship Division for next season.
Huge congrats to them, and their great fans! Hooray Seagulls! Hooray beer!
- Big Apple Soccer with a run down of area players who will travel to Carson for the U-15 BNT
camp – Big Apple Soccer
- Chicago Fire claims Carolina Academy Challenge Cup championship – chicago-fire.com
- MLSSoccer.com takes a peek at CASL Chelsea FC, which has produced a number of current MLS
players – MLSSoccer.
Steve Bellis
Steve Bellis, a name familiar to many soccer households in Minnesota, has been named Head Coach
for the Division II women's soccer team at Concorida College in St. Paul, MN.
The Manchester, England native has served as Director of Coaching and Player Development for
Wings Soccer Club (1998-2007) and spent two seasons as Academy of Holy Angels Head Girls Soccer
Coach.
MINNEAPOLIS (Feb. 2, 2011)
The Minnesota women's soccer team has announced its 2011 signing class with seven new additions
to the Gophers program including a trio of All-Americans, the 2010 Star Tribune Player of the Year,
the 2010 Pioneer Press Player of the Year and the 2010 Minnesota Ms.
BLAINE, Minn. (January 31, 2011)
The NSC Minnesota Stars pro soccer team will hold an invitation-only combine March 2-4 at the
National Sports Center in Blaine, Minn. Head Coach and Director of Soccer Operations Manny Lagos
said he expects to invite 60-80 players to the tryout, which will feature two-a-day training
sessions on all three days.
Dean Johnson, former owner of the Minnesota Thunder and owner of RFC Liège in Belgium
has disappeared and not been heard from after a Belgium sports magazine uncovered the Minnesota
native's sordid financial history.
I asked him questions about his past in the USA, his financial problems here in Belgium, and so
on.
The Minnesota Stars press release couldn't have said it any better:
Chants of "You'll never beat Joe Warren" will no longer pour from the stands and beer garden at
the National Sports Center Stadium. NSC Minnesota Stars goalkeeper Joe Warren announced his
retirement Thursday after 13 seasons of professional soccer in his native Minnesota.
The Minnesota Stars press release couldn't have said it any better:
Chants of "You'll never beat Joe Warren" will no longer pour from the stands and beer garden at
the National Sports Center Stadium. NSC Minnesota Stars goalkeeper Joe Warren announced his
retirement Thursday after 13 seasons of professional soccer in his native Minnesota.
Two Minnesotans who were called into the U.S. U-14 Boys National Team camp over Thanksgiving
have been given the nod again. Mukwelle Akale and Max Stiegwardt,
both of the Minnesota Thunder Academy and who were said to have looked good in the Novembers camp,
have been called into a international training camp in Guadalajara, Mexico from January 16th
through the 23rd.
The Minnesota Stars held a press conference today announcing that with the help of the North
American Soccer League (NASL) they will be back for the 2011 season and will play their games at
the National Sports Center.
Aaron Davidson - Photos by Jermey Olsen - www.digitalgopher.
