European opportunities are the future of elite youth soccer.

With more than 100 teams and thousands of players on hand in late June for the USSF Development Academy Showcase in Greensboro, NC, it might have been easy to miss a group...

Konowiecki (2nd from left) is ready to return to Europe.

This was no vacation, but he knew that. It didn’t take long for Kovi Konowiecki, then a 14-year old from Long Beach, CA, to realize the course he was taking would be inherently difficult. Kovi had decided...

Bobby Wood is a coaches' dream; powerful, fast, and skilled.

A rare combination is how Don Ebert describes Bobby Wood. Ebert should know, he’s coached the Irvine Strikers forward for some time now, and has continued to monitor his progress...