Charm City. Baltimore, Maryland was my home for three days as I attended the annual United Soccer Coaches Convention. This was my first ever journey to it and it did not disappoint. I started my convention in a very unique way attending the NWSL College Draft as a member of the media. What shocked me …
Welcome to 2020
2020 is 9 days old and there are already a ton of intriguing topics to discuss. Today, I will just hit on some recent news in US Soccer. The youth teams still have numerous unnamed coaches as we start the new decade continuing the questions of what the actual vision is for the US Soccer …
US Open Cup Farce
I still remember traveling just outside of Baltimore a couple of years back being rostered for Phoenix SC as we were about to play a “win and your in” game to qualify for the 2018 Lamar Hunt Open Cup. We were about to take on Christos FC, a team who just months earlier and taken …
I Am Thankful for Soccer…
If you had told me a year ago that I would become a goalkeeper coach for a WPSL team, would return to the high school sidelines as an assistant girls coach, get to meet NWSL players Aubrey Bledsoe and Erica Skroski, and would make my first appearance on a radio show dedicated to soccer, then …
What is Happening to the USMNT?
I have been trying to find words or a topic to write about for some time now and will have several posts rolling out over the next few days but this is too big not to comment on. I came home last night from coaching my high school team in one of our few night …
Philly is a Soccer Town…
For anyone who says that Philly is not a soccer town... were you at the USWNT Victory Tour game against Portugal last Thursday? My guess is no so let me fill you in on what has happened in the City of Brotherly Love. Last Thursday, the USWNT took on Portugal in a Victory Tour Friendly. …
Start of Something…
Part #1: In the week since I wrote about the backwards pyramids in American soccer, I have searched for the right thing to discuss next. My mind has been taken over by the thoughts of the Philadelphia Union Captain Alejandro Bedoya and I feel like I need to start here. However, it may not be …
Backwards Pyramids
In the past two blog posts, I dove into the controversy that is equal pay between the men's and women's national team players here in the United States. While I know this topic has almost been over discussed, it still needs to be discussed until this situation is resolved. Now on top of the pay …
Victory Tour?
The USWNT are BACK TO BACK World Cup Champs! As we near the end of July, I return to writing for this blog and will be rolling out content every week moving forward. So bear with me as there is a lot I have missed commenting on. Our Women's National Team is once again World Cup Champions after …
A Tale of Two World Cups
Why is there a divide in the United States between the Men and Women? Welcome to blog post #1 of Kicked in the Grass and I am going to start into one of the most controversial topics in soccer here in the United States. The divide between the men's and women's teams. The year is …
Kicked in the Grass 