About a year ago, I talked to Brad Friedel about his plans for a youth academy in Ohio. It was actually still in the process of being built and planned and such. I believe it's in its just completed its first full year or it's been opened right around there. Things seem to be heading in the right direction for Premier Soccer Academies. Click to continue reading...

Over at the NC Soccer Forum, LDSM posted an interesting article about a teenage referee who has founded a scholarship program to help underprivileged kids get certified to referee soccer matches: Even at 13-years-old, David Mulcahy thought as much about others as he did himself. When he became a soccer referee after years of playing on [...] Click to continue reading...