ICC Futures Update: LAFC Slammers to Face Barcelona in Semi-Final Sat Dec14

The ICC Futures tournament is rolling into Semi-Finals on December 14th at the IMG Academy in Florida In a re-match of last year’s ECNL championship match, LAFC Slammers faced off against East Coast powerhouse PDA on Thursday December 12th during ICC Futures group play. PDA topped LAFC Slammers in the ECNL final 3-2 earlier this […]

Meet Nike’s newest young star, and her Slammers FC team. #DREAMFURTHER

During the 2019 Champions League final, Nike debuted their big-budget ad, Dream Further. During today’s marquee Women’s World Cup match (USA! USA! USA!), the ad is sure to run again. The cinematic action-packed film features a young girl being brought along to be a part of some pretty big soccer moments. Nike’s emphasis is to […]

UPDATE! Cal South National Cup Heads into a Championship Weekend

UPDATE: A few weeks ago, Cal South National Cup began and teams started their quest for a trip to the US Youth Soccer Far West Regionals in Boise, Idaho. Many of the top-seeded teams had a great showing, but were eventually defeated by teams with lower seeds. Congratulations! Congrats to all of the teams who […]

The DA debate continues: “It wasn’t the best fit.” -Slammers FC

Slammers FC was one of the most dominant girls’ clubs during the Girls Development Academy’s inaugural year.  Surprisingly to many, Slammers FC then left the DA and returned to the ECNL (Elite Clubs National League).  Why?  I recently spoke with Christen Press’s Slammers FC coach, Ziad Khoury about Christen’s years of youth soccer. Neither ECNL nor the DA […]

From SoCal to the World Cup: USWNT’s Christen Press

The FIFA Women’s World Cup is coming up fast. Every player on the US Women’s National Team (USWNT) has a story about how she got to where she is today. For a while now, I’ve been collecting research and compiling information for articles about those years of youth soccer across the country. Yesterday I was […]

U.S. Soccer Announces Girls’ Development Academy In 2017

After months of speculation, U.S. Soccer has officially announced the creation of a Girls’ Development Academy program which will begin play in the fall of 2017. U.S. Soccer plans to structure the Girls’ Development Academy after its Development Academy program for the boys, which began play in 2007 and now consists of 152 clubs across […]