Huge congratulations to Julian Hall again! Earlier this year he became the first former NCE player to score a senior hat-trick. This weekend he stepped up another level, made his senior debut for the U.S. men’s national team against Peru, and scored within ten...
Many of you may have been away with your club teams this summer or even with NCE on our Gothia, Pro Pathway or Pro Academy Tours. You may be noticing what’s become clear to us over the years. For over a decade, we’ve taken players of all ages to England,...
This summer’s World Cup gave us a masterclass in how not to compete. Across the semifinal and the final, one of the tournament’s best teams let frustration spill into confrontation, dissent, and ugly scenes that had nothing to do with football. It was a...
The NCE 2011 Girls had everything you want to see in a competitive youth soccer team: undefeated group stage play, 21 goals scored, zero goals conceded—and the harder-to-measure thing: 16 players from three continents who became a tight-knit squad in two weeks. That...
The World Cup is over, and we’re already sliding back into our regular sports calendar here in the U.S. Despite the disappointing exit against Belgium, this tournament has to go down as a huge success — particularly for bringing the game to millions of new fans....
