Alumni Corner: Leslie Osborne, the high school years

Welcome to Week 2 of Leslie Osborne’s Alumni Corner: the high school and recruiting years Thank you to the team at ECNL for partnering with SoccerNation for this series! Last week, we met Leslie Osborne. She grew up in Wisconsin, where she played her youth club soccer and got her biggest growth opportunities through the ODP program. […]
Alumni Corner: Meet Leslie Osborne!

We are kicking off our newest SoccerNation feature, Alumni Corner, with a “NBD” type of player. She only played for youth national teams, an NCAA D1 powerhouse, USWNT, Olympics, and World Cup teams. No Big Deal, right? Meet Leslie Osborne Over the next few weeks, we’ll be talking all about Leslie’s playing career and her […]
Scouting for the US Youth National Teams | Must-Read advice for Any Player Who Wants to Improve

The US Soccer Development Academy showcase and playoffs are happening over the next two weeks in Oceanside, California. The top youth soccer teams, like LAFC, will be on the field battling for championships and seeing how they stack up against the best in the country. (If you want to know more about USSDA vs US […]
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 […]
So Cal Blues Rising Stars

The So Cal Blues boasts some of the top youth players in the nation. Ashley Sanchez, a forward, is considered by many as the number 1 recruit in the nation. She was recently called up to the US U20 roster for the Four Nations Cup and played in all three matches as a substitute. Ashley […]
FIFA U-20 MEN’S WORLD CUP MAKES DEBUT ON FOX FAMILY OF NETWORKS

This weekend the FIFA U-20 Men’s World Cup commences, and FOX Sports plans multi-platform coverage of all 52 total matches from New Zealand. Matches air live across FOX Sports 1, FOX Sports 2, FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Sports GO, the network’s live streaming video platform. Live game coverage airs in the United States beginning […]