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Post by Soccerhouse on Mar 4, 2016 14:06:16 GMT -5
Caught off guard by this one. Was reading on www.socceramerica.com about u17 womens championsihps in Grenada, and I get to this... U.S. CONNECTIONS. The USA will face a Jamaica team that includes eight USA-based players andis coached by Real Colorado director Lorne Donaldson Mexico has nine U.S. players, Costa Rica has one, and host Grenada has three, including 10-year-old Texan Melania Fullerton, who plays for Solar Chelsea East Dallas."Melania is a powerhouse and leader on the field," said Solar Chelsea East Dallas coach Jaime Arnold. "She keeps coming and coming giving 110 percent every time she steps onto the pitch. With her speed and quick footwork she is able to stun her opponents but there's one thing she has that you cannot teach and that’s heart.” This can't be a real, a 10 year old playing with u17s. Come on really. link has a video as well www.socceramerica.com/article/67910/usa-aims-for-return-to-u-17-womens-world-cup.html
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Post by SoccerMom on Mar 4, 2016 14:38:46 GMT -5
Caught off guard by this one. Was reading on www.socceramerica.com about u17 womens championsihps in Grenada, and I get to this... U.S. CONNECTIONS. The USA will face a Jamaica team that includes eight USA-based players andis coached by Real Colorado director Lorne Donaldson Mexico has nine U.S. players, Costa Rica has one, and host Grenada has three, including 10-year-old Texan Melania Fullerton, who plays for Solar Chelsea East Dallas."Melania is a powerhouse and leader on the field," said Solar Chelsea East Dallas coach Jaime Arnold. "She keeps coming and coming giving 110 percent every time she steps onto the pitch. With her speed and quick footwork she is able to stun her opponents but there's one thing she has that you cannot teach and that’s heart.” This can't be a real, a 10 year old playing with u17s. Come on really. link has a video as well www.socceramerica.com/article/67910/usa-aims-for-return-to-u-17-womens-world-cup.htmlyea...sound a little ridiculous if you ask me?
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Post by reinalocura on Mar 4, 2016 14:42:27 GMT -5
More creative birth certificating.
I apologize. Too mean.
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Post by SoccerMom on Mar 4, 2016 14:45:48 GMT -5
She can never play for the USWNT now right?
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Post by stevieg on Mar 4, 2016 17:08:06 GMT -5
She can never play for the USWNT now right? I think she still could. At least on the men's side, you can play for a U-whatever team from one country and still play for another at senior level. That's crazy though. I can't even believe the US has to use a couple of 14 yr olds on its U-17s. Surely there are enough 16 and 17 yr olds.
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Post by Soccerhouse on Mar 4, 2016 19:41:43 GMT -5
One would think like you said we should be able to field a team full of just 16 and 17 year olds.
Coach B.J. Snow, who also coached the team that failed to qualify two years ago, has picked a young squad. Of the 20 players, three are 17 years old, 11 are 16, four are 15, and two are 14 (forward Jordan Canniff and defender Kennedy Wesley). Defender Kate Wiesner turned 15 last month.
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Post by zizou on Mar 4, 2016 20:02:12 GMT -5
One would think like you said we should be able to field a team full of just 16 and 17 year olds. Coach B.J. Snow, who also coached the team that failed to qualify two years ago, has picked a young squad. Of the 20 players, three are 17 years old, 11 are 16, four are 15, and two are 14 (forward Jordan Canniff and defender Kennedy Wesley). Defender Kate Wiesner turned 15 last month. This is proof of how few truly elite players there are within any age group. It is also why 13 years olds must fly across country to find reasonable competition (tongue firmly planted in cheek).
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Post by fanatic21 on Mar 4, 2016 23:20:30 GMT -5
Watched the video. She looks pretty good for a 10 year old, but if Grenada selected her for their U17 team, they must be pretty weak. She'd probably be the top player on my daughter's U11 Academy team, but based on what I saw, she wouldn't be significantly better than the other top girls.
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Post by th1976 on Mar 5, 2016 19:40:59 GMT -5
Totally agree with fanatic21. U17? Please. Huge diff between 10 and 14/15/16!
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Post by Anonymous on Mar 6, 2016 9:26:20 GMT -5
Why not take what you consider to be the top players regardless of age? Personally tired of all the age discussions going on.
On another note Georgia has 5 players on the U15/16/17 latest rosters which is a great achievement and shows that we are perhaps the top state on a ratio of population to representatives at the youth ages.
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Post by stevieg on Mar 6, 2016 11:50:49 GMT -5
Why not take what you consider to be the top players regardless of age? Personally tired of all the age discussions going on. On another note Georgia has 5 players on the U15/16/17 latest rosters which is a great achievement and shows that we are perhaps the top state on a ratio of population to representatives at the youth ages. I don't disagree with your statement. I just think that the US should have 18 players at age 16 and 17 that are good enough. This isn't a public high school where you are limited by zoning and a couple of freshmen make it on to the team. This is the best of the best. If those players are truly years ahead of the others, we should see them on the senior national team by the time they graduate high school.
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Post by Soccerhouse on Mar 7, 2016 9:31:24 GMT -5
I agree and disagree. You absolutely want to throw out the best you have, I think the point we are making is there should be adequate numbers in the age group to field a team. I'm saying that having no idea the quality of the younger girls, if they are like Pugh, than they deserve to play.
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Post by greenmonkey on Mar 7, 2016 16:46:29 GMT -5
I just finished reading the April Heinrichs interview that SoccerMom had posted on another thread and I found this very interesting quote ...
"– let’s be clear, Mallory Pugh and Lindsey Horan are exceptions rather than the norm. Ten years ago our best Under-20 graduates would leave our Under-20 program and would fight the first year or two of college to be one of the better players on their [NCAA] team. Now, most of our Under-20 players leave the Under-20 program and go into their college program and they’re one of the better players at the start."
I should hope that "most" of the players leaving the U20 program would end up "one of the better players" on their college team.
Is it because my daughter is still academy age not Athena or because we live in Atlanta (with so many strong clubs to choose from) or that when we travel we see strong teams from NC, TN, TX, and FL that I am somehow naive to this apparent lack of enough talented female soccer players in the US?
I am not fighting the birth year change or the ECNL vs. DA or any other recent US Soccer initiatives ...
I guess what I'm saying is that its a great thing that no matter what "level" of soccer your daughter wants to play at or is capable of playing at ... It appears there is a place for them somewhere ... But I had no idea someone had to go Grenada to find a team environment that would challenge and develop them?
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Post by th1976 on Mar 7, 2016 16:53:16 GMT -5
Why not take what you consider to be the top players regardless of age? Personally tired of all the age discussions going on. On another note Georgia has 5 players on the U15/16/17 latest rosters which is a great achievement and shows that we are perhaps the top state on a ratio of population to representatives at the youth ages. There are also 4 girls from GA on the list for the U14GNT training camp. I'm pretty sure that's the highest # from Region 3.
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Post by stevieg on Mar 7, 2016 19:36:50 GMT -5
Why not take what you consider to be the top players regardless of age? Personally tired of all the age discussions going on. On another note Georgia has 5 players on the U15/16/17 latest rosters which is a great achievement and shows that we are perhaps the top state on a ratio of population to representatives at the youth ages. There are also 4 girls from GA on the list for the U14GNT training camp. I'm pretty sure that's the highest # from Region 3. Link?
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Post by SoccerMom on Mar 7, 2016 21:37:24 GMT -5
There are also 4 girls from GA on the list for the U14GNT training camp. I'm pretty sure that's the highest # from Region 3. Link? The list is not public yet, it will be posted soon
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Post by th1976 on Mar 16, 2016 12:11:55 GMT -5
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Post by Soccerhouse on Mar 16, 2016 12:44:00 GMT -5
thanks th1976CHICAGO (March 16, 2016) -- U.S. Under-14 Girls’ National Team head coach April Kater has called up 48 players for the first U.S. Under-14 Girls’ National Team training camp of the year which will run from March 19-26 at the U.S. Soccer National Training Center in Carson, Calif. The majority of the players were born in 2002, but 14 were born in 2003. The U.S U-14 GNT did not have programming last year as players born in odd years start with two years in the U-15 Girls’ National Team program. For this cycle, with the majority of players born in an even year, which are the age-cut-off years for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, the players follow the path of one year as U-14s and then move to the Under-16 GNT (2 years), Under-18 WNT (2 years) and Under-20 WNT (2 years). The players are starting the path that for some may lead to the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup. For all of these players but two, this will be the first experience in the U.S. YNT program. U.S. U-14 Girls’ National Team Roster By Position: GOALKEEPERS (6): Azul Alvarez (Lonestar SC; Round Rock, Texas), Ryan Campbell (So Cal Blues; Dana Point, Calif.), Mia Justus (PDA; North Brunswick, N.J.), Madison Prohaska (Cincinnati United; Liberty Township, Ohio), Alia Skinner (Jacksonville FC; Fleming Island, Fla.), Stephanie Sparkowski (East Meadow SC; East Meadow, N.Y.) DEFENDERS (14): Baleigh Bruster (Tophat SC; Smyrna, Ga.), Addison Bundy (Colorado Rush; Fort Collins, Colo.), Avery Chaney (Lonestar San Antonio; Helotes, Texas), Kayla Colbert (Arsenal FC; Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), Kylie Daigle (Penn Fusion; Millville, N.J.), Cara Elmendorf (Florida Kraze Krush; Casselberry, Fla.), Sophia Fisher (SC Del Sol; Scottsdale, Ariz.), Samar Guidry (FC Dallas; McKinney, Texas), Isabel Loza (Fullerton Rangers; La Mirada, Calif.), Emily Matthews (Premier Soccer Group; Fraser, Mich.), Olivia Migli (FC Virginia; Harmarket, Va.), Litzy Morales (So Cal Blues; Santa Ana, Calif.), Emily Royson (PDA; Toms River, N.J.), Dasia Torbert (GSA; Dacula, Ga.) MIDFIELDERS (14): Jessica Carlton (Legends FC; Upland, Calif.), Leah Chancey (Solar Chelsea; Ovilla, Texas), Talia DellaPeruta (Tophat SC; Cumming, Ga.), Devi Dudley (Utah Celtic FC; American Fork, Utah), Emma Egizii (Beach FC; Downey, Calif.), Jillian Martinez (Lonestar SC; San Antonio, Texas), Alexis Missimo (Solar Chelsea; Southlake, Texas), Barbara Olivieri (Albion Hurricanes FC; Kat, Texas), Avery Patterson (Florida Elite Soccer Academy; Jacksonville, Fla.), Michaela Rosenbaum (Santa Rosa United; Rohnert Park, Calif.), Bella Sember (East Meadow Soccer Club; Center Point, N.Y.), Acacia Vanlandingham (Eagles SC; Santa Barbara, Calif.), Grace Watkins (Slammers FC; Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Natalie Wilson (FC Virginia; Fairfax, Va.) FORWARDS (14): Trinity Byars (Solar FC; Richardson, Texas), Kailyn Dudukovich (Cincinnati United; West Chester, Ohio), Tatiana Fung (Arsenal FC; Fullerton, Calif.), Dilary Heredia-Beltran (Sporting Blue Valley; Wichita, Kan.), Amelia Horton (Sporting Blue Valley; Olathe, Kan.), Simone Jackson (So Cal Blues; Redondo Beach, Calif.), Jameese Joseph (Bethesda Soccer Club; Beltsville, Md.), Samantha Kroeger (Matchfit Academy; West Milford, N.J.), Kacey Lawrence (Connecticut FC, Monroe, Conn.), Renee Lyles (GSA; Atlanta, Ga.), Aryssa Mahrt (FC Wisconsin Eclipse; Wauwatosa, Wisc.), Jillian Shimkin (Albertson SC; Rockville Centre, N.Y.), Reilyn Turner (SC Blues; Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Joyelle Washington (Michigan Hawks; Canton, Mich.)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 15:25:17 GMT -5
U.S. U-14 Girls’ National Team Roster By Position: GOALKEEPERS (6): Azul Alvarez (Lonestar SC; Round Rock, Texas), Ryan Campbell (So Cal Blues; Dana Point, Calif.), Mia Justus (PDA; North Brunswick, N.J.), Madison Prohaska (Cincinnati United; Liberty Township, Ohio), Alia Skinner (Jacksonville FC; Fleming Island, Fla.), Stephanie Sparkowski (East Meadow SC; East Meadow, N.Y.) DEFENDERS (14): Baleigh Bruster (Tophat SC; Smyrna, Ga.), Addison Bundy (Colorado Rush; Fort Collins, Colo.), Avery Chaney (Lonestar San Antonio; Helotes, Texas), Kayla Colbert (Arsenal FC; Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), Kylie Daigle (Penn Fusion; Millville, N.J.), Cara Elmendorf (Florida Kraze Krush; Casselberry, Fla.), Sophia Fisher (SC Del Sol; Scottsdale, Ariz.), Samar Guidry (FC Dallas; McKinney, Texas), Isabel Loza (Fullerton Rangers; La Mirada, Calif.), Emily Matthews (Premier Soccer Group; Fraser, Mich.), Olivia Migli (FC Virginia; Harmarket, Va.), Litzy Morales (So Cal Blues; Santa Ana, Calif.), Emily Royson (PDA; Toms River, N.J.), Dasia Torbert (GSA; Dacula, Ga.) MIDFIELDERS (14): Jessica Carlton (Legends FC; Upland, Calif.), Leah Chancey (Solar Chelsea; Ovilla, Texas), Talia DellaPeruta (Tophat SC; Cumming, Ga.), Devi Dudley (Utah Celtic FC; American Fork, Utah), Emma Egizii (Beach FC; Downey, Calif.), Jillian Martinez (Lonestar SC; San Antonio, Texas), Alexis Missimo (Solar Chelsea; Southlake, Texas), Barbara Olivieri (Albion Hurricanes FC; Kat, Texas), Avery Patterson (Florida Elite Soccer Academy; Jacksonville, Fla.), Michaela Rosenbaum (Santa Rosa United; Rohnert Park, Calif.), Bella Sember (East Meadow Soccer Club; Center Point, N.Y.), Acacia Vanlandingham (Eagles SC; Santa Barbara, Calif.), Grace Watkins (Slammers FC; Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Natalie Wilson (FC Virginia; Fairfax, Va.) FORWARDS (14): Trinity Byars (Solar FC; Richardson, Texas), Kailyn Dudukovich (Cincinnati United; West Chester, Ohio), Tatiana Fung (Arsenal FC; Fullerton, Calif.), Dilary Heredia-Beltran (Sporting Blue Valley; Wichita, Kan.), Amelia Horton (Sporting Blue Valley; Olathe, Kan.), Simone Jackson (So Cal Blues; Redondo Beach, Calif.), Jameese Joseph (Bethesda Soccer Club; Beltsville, Md.), Samantha Kroeger (Matchfit Academy; West Milford, N.J.), Kacey Lawrence (Connecticut FC, Monroe, Conn.), Renee Lyles (GSA; Atlanta, Ga.), Aryssa Mahrt (FC Wisconsin Eclipse; Wauwatosa, Wisc.), Jillian Shimkin (Albertson SC; Rockville Centre, N.Y.), Reilyn Turner (SC Blues; Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Joyelle Washington (Michigan Hawks; Canton, Mich.) I saw one of these girls play another sport a few years ago. I remember thinking that we're going to see this girl in the Olympics someday (whether in that sport, soccer or whatever she chooses). She's truly a special athlete. Best of luck to all of them!
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