US Youth Soccer ODP

Over the weekend, US Youth Soccer hosted the ODP National Championship in Frisco, Texas. Other than a small delay due to Snow in Texas, everything went really well. Unfortunately, Kentucky did not send a team this year, but there is always hope in 2009. To check out the stories, pictures, and more, please click here.

US Soccer Blog's

Wanted to share a few links this morning to a few blogs out there you might be interested in checking out if you have time. All of theses are postings from ussoccer.com and have great inside information on the three national teams (Men's, Women's, and Youth). Check them out.

Men's National Team
Women's National Team
Youth National Team

U-23 National Team

U.S. U-23 men's national team coach Peter Nowak named the 20-player roster for 2008 CONCACAF Olympic qualifying. The U.S. faces Cuba first on March 11 at 8 p.m. ET at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla.

"We have seen many strong players over the past few months, and had some difficult decisions to make," said Nowak. "We feel that the group of players that will compete in the qualifying tournament represent the team that gives us the best chance of going through a difficult stretch of games to advance to the Olympic Games in Beijing."

After playing Cuba, the U.S. will face Panama on March 13 at 8 p.m. ET and then finish Group A play against Honduras on March 15 at 7 p.m. ET. All three U.S. matches will be the second match of three doubleheaders played at Raymond James Stadium and will be broadcast live on Fox Soccer Channel and ESPN Deportes.

Group B features Canada, Guatemala, Haiti and Mexico facing off at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. The top two teams from Group A and B will move on to the semifinals on March 20 in Nashville, Tenn., where the winners will earn berths to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Georgetown College Hires Coach

Derek Willis accepted the Men's Soccer Coach at Georgetown College. Derek has been working as the Central Hardin High School boys head coach for the last five years. In addition to working at Central Hardin, Derek also worked with Javanon and is the assistant coach for the 1993 Boys ODP team.

To read more about this, check out the Elizabethtown News-Enterprise story.

Player of the Year Signs with Western Kentucky

2007 Eurosport Player of the Year, Kaylyn Pratt signed a letter of intent with Western Kentucky last week. You can read the rest of the article from the Richmond Register.

Congratulations Kaylyn.

WKU Discontinues Soccer

Some bad news came down the pipe on Friday when Western Kentucky decided to discontinue its mens soccer program, effective immeditately. Check on the official release here. 15 returning players, and 6 recruits will now have to decide whether to transfer or give up the game they came to love. Good luck to those players and we all wish that decisions like this could be avoided.

New Mens National Team Jersey's

Well, well, well, looks like Nike and Federation have come out with the newest national team kit. My first thought have it looking like a t-shirt or polo that I would buy at Old Navy. BUT...its a clean and cool look. I'll be interested to see what the away uniform looks like.

If your interested in buying, go here.