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| FIFA president Sepp Blatter renewed his campaign Wednesday to stop European soccer clubs from hoarding most of the world's best players. Blatter said European clubs were "drying out" soccer in Africa by signing the best young players and preventing professional leagues from developing. "It cannot be that only one continent will be the focus of all football," Blatter said in a conference call with... |
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| West Ham striker Craig Bellamy plans to build a football academy in Sierra Leone in an attempt to help the country's young players develop into global stars. |
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| Manchester City will play in Bangkok next month, a report said Friday, as the club strengthened its ties with Thailand by appointing a former Thai coach to help develop academies in Asia. |
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| England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup will focus on the development of soccer worldwide. The Football Association met Thursday and approved the bid after studying a 63-page report on the estimated cost and proposed structure. "The report recommends an approach focusing on the benefits that a World Cup in England would bring to the development of football around the world, and commits England to... |
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| Louis Mateus is living an American soccer coach's dream. Standing under a big, white inflated dome, he watches about 40 teenage boys trickle inside for two hours of drills and scrimmages in what by day is a suburban Chicago driving range. The players -- Mateus' players -- are members of the Chicago Fire's Youth Development Academy, unpaid apprentices dedicated to the slim hope that someday they'll... |
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| Chelsea might be best known for ploughing millions of dollars into its quest for European football domination, but it is also boosting its involvement in grassroots development of the game in Asia. |
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| Just two years ago, 16-year-old midfielder Rafael Martinez Jr. was playing soccer in New York City. He was quite comfortable on a club team that had won back-to-back state cups and playing on an Olympic Development Program team, and life was good. |
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| Separated by nearly 5,000 miles, the Chicago Fire and the Red Bulls, who are training in Salzburg, Austria, have rekindled what is quickly developing into a contentious feud. |
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| Separated by nearly 5,000 miles, the Chicago Fire and the Red Bulls, who are training in Salzburg, Austria, have rekindled what is quickly developing into a contentious feud. |
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| Separated by nearly 5,000 miles, the Chicago Fire and the Red Bulls, who are training in Salzburg, Austria, have rekindled what is quickly developing into a contentious feud. |
