NFHS Announces Rule Changes for 2008-09
Effective with the 2008-09 high school soccer season, players will be penalized (yellow card) for subsequent violations of illegal equipment rules. 
U.S. to Face No. 1 Ranked Argentina at Giants Stadium on June 8 in Final Match Before World Cup Qualifying
Match Follows Games Against England and Spain in Europe; Argentina to be Last Friendly Match for U.S. Men at Giants Stadium; U.S. to Face Barbados on June 15 at The HDC in World Cup Qualifying Opener
American teen starring for Brazil U-20 women's team
Associated Press
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- An American teenager is making a splash in Brazilian women’s soccer. Leah Lynn Gabriela Fortune, a 17-year-old who speaks very little Portuguese and goes to school in the United States, is attracting a lot of attention as a member of Brazil’s Under-20 squad.
USC Takes Home National Title
Courtesy of Southern California Women's Soccer
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS - The USC women's soccer team capped off its history-making season with one last huge feat - the NCAA Championship. The second-seeded Women of Troy tacked up their fifth shutout of the NCAA Tournament - an accomplishment never before achieved - with a 2-0 decision over third-seeded Florida State in the NCAA title match on Sunday afternoon at Aggie Soccer Complex in College Station, Texas.
Girls Are Often Neglected Victims of Concussions
By Alan Schwartz of the NY Times
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — Hannah Stohler sat beside the piano she could no longer play, in the living room that spun like a carousel, in the chair in which she tried to read but could not remember a word. Ten months after her third concussion while playing high school soccer knocked her into a winter-long haze of headaches and dizziness and depression that few around her could comprehend, Stohler recalled how she once viewed concussions.
Playing Soccer Beyond High School
Estimated Probability of Competing in Athletics Beyond the High School Interscholastic Level
Champions League last eight set sights on final four
courtesy of uefa.com
AS Roma will attempt to avoid another miserable night against Manchester United FC while two other English clubs meet elsewhere in the UEFA Champions League quarter-final first legs.
U.S. Women's National Team Qualifies For 2008 Beijing Olympics With 3-0 Victory Over Costa Rica
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (April 9, 2008) – The U.S. Women’s National Team rebounded from a frustrating first half to score three second half goals – two by Natasha Kai – and clinch a spot in the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a 3-0 victory over Costa Rica in the semifinal of 2008 CONCACAF Olympic Women’s Qualifying.
Arsenal's Emma Hayes Named First Head Coach of Chicago WPS Team
Having already helped lead her teams to a bevy of European championships, Arsenal Ladies Coach Emma Hayes is bringing her expertise Stateside and adding another title to her extensive résumé: inaugural head coach and director of soccer operations for Chicago Women's Professional Soccer (WPS).
Soccer as N.B.A. Building Block
LOS ANGELES — The Phoenix Suns had just finished a practice earlier this season when Steve Nash, Boris Diaw, Leandro Barbosa and Grant Hill joined a man in jeans and a T-shirt who had arrived carrying a soccer ball. They formed a small circle and with their feet, thighs, chests and foreheads took turns juggling the ball. Each took more than a few touches, some to control the ball, others to show off tricks learned long ago. Then the ball was flicked to someone else in the circle. Rarely did it touch the court.
Youth Development in MLS: The Promise and the Problems
The vastly developed high school and college sports programs in the United States have been a tremendously organised pipeline of talent to the major leagues in American football, basketball, and baseball for some time now. In its first decade, MLS largely relied on the same system, with talented players often not turning professional until they had graduated from college and been selected in the SuperDraft at the age of 22 or 23 (of course, there have been exceptions such as Adu, Mapp or Altidore).
The Uneven Playing Field
An in-depth article on girls' ACL injuries
BY THE TIME JANELLE PIERSON SPRINTED ONTO THE FIELD for the start of the Florida high-school soccer playoffs in January, she had competed in hundreds of games since joining her first team at 5. She played soccer year-round
Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) announces post-Olympics timeline for national player allocation, team tryouts
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (July 8, 2008) –Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) announced today the details of its player selection process leading into the kickoff of its inaugural season in April 2009. WPS teams will build their rosters through an allocation of U.S. Women’s National Team stars, a draft of international players, combines, additional League drafts and local team tryouts.
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