DMVSoccer

I mean where is the lie? The reason I became a soccer fan, maybe lost some clout due to his romantic decisions but CR7 has been on record saying he’s basically the best LW ever. Legend.

for the coaches out there, everyone gives back in their own way.

“19 of the 27 selections from the USMNT friendlies roster had ties to US Soccer Development Academy”. Fast forward to 2026. No more DA. MLS clubs hired scouting directors to poach & steal players from clubs in their market, league continues to be diluted w MLSNext2. Fun times

🚨0️⃣ Tottenham have recorded zero Premier League wins since the start of 2026.

Roy Keane vs Patrick Vieira 🔥

The #U21MNT roster is here and 20 players will head to South Korea for two friendlies 🫡 📰 ussoc.cr/gxu

saw the new #usmnt kits today, both look and feel nice in person. the white and red kit has some darker red gradient throughout which stands out. Nike did us proud they are 🔥

they’re winning it.

@Alph__Utd this is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. stop it.

🚨 Rio Ferdinand: “People gas Palmer like we didn’t have Januzaj doing this a decade ago. Same flair, same IQ...and more sauce. Bro moved like he was playing FIFA on beginner mode. Calm, fearless, cooked defenders for fun. Streets won’t ever forget him.”

not dmv related but sheesh 14?!?

🚨 OFFICIAL: Champions League quarter finals are set! 🏆✨ 🇩🇪 Bayern 🆚 Real Madrid 🇪🇸 🇪🇸 Barcelona 🆚 Atlético 🇪🇸 🇵🇹 Sporting 🆚 Arsenal 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇫🇷 PSG vs Liverpool 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Who’s going to Budapest? 👀

Elanga clearly best player on the pitch through 38 mins. Has a brace and is causing all types of problems.

Had some time to digest this. The real concern is at the GK position. At past World Cups we have always had GKs who face the toughest competition in Europe every day…Tim Howard, Kasey Keller, Brad Friedel. WC matches are always 0-0 or 1-1 have to have a strong back line and GK

shocking miss

🚨 Paramount+ announce a new docuseries — You Don’t Know Where I’m From, Dawg — a comprehensive look at the life and career of @USMNT legend Clint Dempsey. From a trailer park in Nacogdoches, Texas to a national hero — the five-part series coming soon to @paramountplus 🍿

What a comeback from Sporting 🍿 They've ended Bodø/Glimt's Cinderella run in the Champions League after a stunning second leg 👀

🚨⚪️⚫️ Fulham reach verbal agreement to sign Ricardo Pepi from PSV Eindhoven, here we go! Formal steps to follow for €36m package deal agreed between clubs. Personal terms also agreed. 🇺🇸 Pepi could undergo his medical at Fulham in the upcoming days. 🔜

@ProducedbyHeron @golz_tv I work. If I bill out at $100 an hour and I gotta spend 80 hours to get a coaching license, that’s $8k worth of time in the real world. They are weeding out the part time coaches. A country built on parent coaches and part time coaches. That’s how I feel.

@DMVSoccerDotNet @golz_tv Very frustrating but 1) it’s highly profitable for them. Absolute money maker which is the cow keeps on giving milk and 2) nepotism. It weeds out the ones who can’t afford it for the ones who can. These are the hurdles we as coaches have to face daily

USMNT legend Tab Ramos has called out coaching in American youth soccer 🗣️ He believes due to various circumstances, coaches are making things too complicated for young players— which ultimately harms them instead of helping them develop. “I was able to coach youth soccer outside of the national teams for a period of about 10 years,” Tab began. “Unfortunately nowadays, the game has gotten so complicated, the pyramid of soccer in this country has gotten so complicated that it's very difficult for coaches.” “By the way, it's a really big effort to get your C license, your B license, and your A license. It's an effort. It takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of money. And so now these coaches are going to go back to a club, you know, after spending all this money on their coaching education, those coaches have to get paid.” “And in order to get paid, you have to sort of not only teach the players, but you have to kind of put on a show of all of the things that you learn.” “So now I get to the complicated area. Because now what if you hired me in California? Here I am. I'm the former U.S. Soccer technical director and under-20 national team coach for four World Cups, and I have my pro license, and you bring me in and I take your players, because you just hired me to coach your team, because I'm this incredibly knowledgeable guy. And I come in and I just do small sided games with your players.” “The parents of the kids on your team are gonna be sitting around and going, ‘Wait, why are we paying for this?’ But this is what happens.” “See, I would have enough confidence to go there and do that. But the problem is that every coach in the country has to respond to a technical director.” “And because of that, they have to put on this very, you know, difficult training session that's in sequence from your activation, to your small five v two, to your small sided possession, to then the body of your work, to then the tactical to then the big game, right? You got to go through the whole thing.” “They have to do that. And the reason they have to do that is because their technical director is under pressure.” “Because for the technical director to have his club in this league, the ECNL, or whatever, you need to have all of these standards.” “And because of those standards, now the technical director is forced to hire someone who can do all these things.” “Well, at the end of the day, there's all these standards and all these things going on. And who's not benefiting is the player, because the player would benefit more from things being simple, right?” “And of course, it's only my opinion, but I think I've gotten enough experience. Forget the playing side. I've gotten enough experience on the coaching side at all levels, from youth national teams to coaching in MLS at Houston Dynamo to say, ‘Okay, let's put the brakes on this. Our training sessions are getting too complicated. How about let's go back to the beginning, right?’” “That's what matters. This is how players learn the most. And of course, every once in a while you have to have your tactical sessions, and your exercises, where you have the certain patterns to goal, and like I get all of that.” “Of course, we all know that stuff. But the simpler we make it, the more we put players in game like situations and one v one, the better.” [via Sports Recruiting USA]

Talks of a new youth league. You’ll never hear me say this; but a new league is needed. For non-MLS MLSNext clubs in NAL, clubs 3rd teams vs 1st teams. This weekend we played the #5 team in MD as a 3rd team in league play. With mlsnext2 in place, very challenging esp at u19.

@ProducedbyHeron @golz_tv I literally have no choice than to get my C license if I ever want to coach MLSNext/MLSNext2 and I just don’t understand why. I gotta spend all this $$ to learn how to draw training session diagrams. It’s frustrating.

@golz_tv @DMVSoccerDotNet We’ve been saying this for 30 years. The money scheme of US Soccer however is too powerful to resist. If the national team were a fair and level playing field, it would look MUCH different and they don’t want that