Youth 4 Youth Helping To Level Off Soccer’s Uneven Playing Field

What started out as a high school project, Youth 4 Youth FC has become a life changing experience for many youth soccer ...
CNN

‘I’ll pay soccer before I pay a bill’: How the cost of youth soccer blew out of control and why some families pay it anyway

Meliesha Johnson saw the Instagram message first. The single mom, a teacher who lives north of Atlanta, monitors her 15-year-old daughter’s social media accounts. She had always wondered how other ...
Associated Press

World Cup buzz has the potential to mint more soccer fans among kids — some just toddlers now

Jude Cornell joined a swarm of toddlers crawling after soccer balls, tossing training cones into the air and relocating a goalie net that was proving to be very, very portable. “He just started ...
USA Today

Can the World Cup bring back the 'fun' in American youth soccer?

Why do kids play soccer? Likely for the same reasons they play other sports. “We survey youth in every community,” says Jon Solomon, research director for the Aspen Institute’s Sports & Society ...
WLRN

Pay to play: U.S. youth soccer has an access problem. Can the World Cup help?

Paula Caicedo is a soccer mom who's fed up with soccer costs. She was one of several parents who took the dais at a recent North Miami Beach City Commission meeting to urge its members to sponsor the ...