CASA GRANDE, Ariz. – Picture sequence of Andrew Brody’s goal from a Tigran Tiraturyan cross against Nomads SC. For a full game report go here.
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CASA GRANDE, Ariz. – Picture sequence of Andrew Brody’s goal from a Tigran Tiraturyan cross against Nomads SC. For a full game report go here.
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CASA GRANDE, Ariz. – Real Salt Lake has arrived on campus and hours later the Claret-and-Cobalt went straight to work and held their first training session on Monday night.
GSA players: Jose “Coco” Navarro, Jose Hernandez, Sebastian “Bofo” Sauecdo, Ive Burnett, Andrew Brody, Benji Lopez and Jon Zabasajja were invited by head coach Jason Kreis to participate in the session.
The boys looked very impressive out on the pitch and Sebastian “Bofo” Saucedo brought the house down when he converted a bicycle-kick that had all the pros cheering and declaring that “practice is over”.
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Things have been a little chilly down here at the Grande Sports Academy over the past few days. But that doesn’t stop the boys from working hard and preparing for the their first game of the season on January, 27th. Here are the best pictures from last night’s practice.
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The Real Salt Lake – AZ U18 Soccer Academy boys started their 2012 USSDA Winter Showcase on a high note. After a wonderful second half performance by the team, the outcome was a well deserved 4-1 win against the Montreal Impact Academy.
A great number of college coaches from all across the country gathered around Field 20 at the Premier Sports Campus at Lakewood Ranch in Lakewood Ranch, Florida to view the talent on both of these teams. The coaches witnessed a first half of soccer were two evenly matched teams play mostly between the penalty boxes.
RSL-AZ took the lead in the 21st minute through Benji Lopez after a lovely assist by Jose Hernandez. Despite RSL-AZ enjoying more of the possession in the first half, neither of the teams managed to create any clear cut chances and RSL-AZ went into the half-time break with a 1-0 lead.
Minutes into second half RSL-AZ brought on three fresh players and team started controlling the ball by constant pressure at the Montreal back line. In the 61st minute, Andrew Brody scrambled with a Montreal defender on the left hand side when Hernandez picked-up the loose ball and dribbled his way to the touchline. Hernandez sent a low cross which ricocheted off a few Montreal players and bounced towards Trevor Hyman. Without hesitation, Hyman volleyed the ball into the back of the net with conviction and a 2-0 RSL-AZ lead.
Shortly after the RSL-AZ goal, Montreal was able to pull back within one goal with 20 minutes remaining on the clock. As the goal excited the Montreal Impact players into a more aggressive style of play, RSL-AZ ‘s Hernandez showed a piece of magic as he scored an extraordinary goal in the 83rd minute. Hernandez received the ball on the right hand side of the pitch and displayed amazing ball control skills as he outfoxed three Montreal defenders to slam the ball past the helpless Montreal goalkeeper for a 3-1 RSL-AZ lead.
Two minutes later Lopez, RSL-AZ’s leading goal scorer, delivered his second goal of the game. Lopez never gave up on the long ball, shook-off a Montreal defender, and sent a nice low shot that went in off the post and into the back of the net. Lopez’s goal set the final score of 4-1 for an RSL-AZ win.
A great start to the biggest college soccer showcase for the RSL-AZ U18 Academy boys. Saturday’s action finds both RSL-AZ teams on the soccer pitch: the U18s have an early 9:45am kick off against Columbus Soccer Academy Wolves and at 3:00pm the U16s face the Montreal Impact in their first game of the tournament.
The United States Soccer Development Academy has released the draw set for the 2011-12 Development Academy soccer playoffs. The draw set contains 32 teams from the U15/16 and 32 teams from the U17/18 USSDA soccer clubs around the United States.
In only its second year of competition, the Grande Sports Academy’s soccer team, Real Salt Lake – Arizona, has again qualified for both the U15/16 and U17/18 USSDA playoffs. RSL-AZ teams ramp up for the playoffs as they begin to focus on playing in the June 25th tournament in Frisco, Texas.
The first round of Academy Playoff play contains 8 Groups of four teams. The winner of each group advances to the Development Academy Finals Week from July 16 -23 in Houston Texas.
RSL-AZ U17/18 garnered a third seed in Group 5 along with FC Dallas from Frisco Texas, Sockers FC from Palatine Illinois, and McLean Youth Soccer from McLean Virginia.
RSL-AZ U15/16 secured a second seed in Group 4 along with the Chicago Fire from Bridgeview Illinois, Seattle Sounders FC from Tukwila Washington, and the Clearwater Chargers from Clearwater Florida.
The U17/18 soccer squad finished the season in third place in the SoCal Division of the West Conference with 31 points.The team scoring leader Maikon Orrellana ended the season with 13 goals. Joining Orrellana is Danny Gavin and Jordan Allen with 7 goals, Etiandro Tavares with 6 goals, and Dylan Kelly with 5 goals.
The U15/16 team finished the season in second place with 34 points. Jose Navarro lead the team in goals this season with 15 goals. Andrew Brody contributed 9 goals and Trevor Hyman kicked in 7 goals for the season.
U17/18 Team
June 25, 2012 – 8:00pm – Field 9 – Sockers FC (H) vs Real Salt Lake – AZ (A)
June 26, 2012 – 8:00pm – Field 11 – Real Salt Lake – AZ (H) vs FC Dallas (A)
June 28, 2012 – 11:00am – Field 7 – Real Salt Lake – AZ (H) vs McLean Youth Soccer (A)
U15/16 Team
June 26, 2012 – 4:00pm – Field 17 – Real Salt Lake – AZ (H) vs Seattle Sounders FC (A)
June 27, 2012 – 6:30pm – Field 14 – Clearwater Chargers (H) vs Real Salt Lake – AZ (A)
June 29, 2012 – 9:00am – Field 15 – Chicago Fire (H) vs Real Salt Lake – AZ (A)
It took only six minutes for Real Salt Lake-Arizona’s soccer academy U18 team to go one up on the travelling Strikers FC, as the Arizona squad dominated with an eight goal barrage.
Miguel Salazar opened the scoring, slicing through the Strikers’ defense before driving a low shot past the helpless goalkeeper. Next, it was Danny Gavin who put the ball into the back of the net. Ricardo Velasco drove down the bye line hitting a low cross that Gavin tapped in for his first goal.
Real Salt Lake-AZ went three up before the half ended as Jean Pierre Bello finished off a nice combination between Etiandro Tavares and Velasco.
Four minutes into the second half, Strikers were given a lifeline as the referee awarded a dubious penalty kick. Real Salt Lake – Arizona defender, Julio Alacron chased down Striker forward Avery Schwartz, who appeared to have stepped on the ball before tumbling to the ground. RSL-AZ goalkeeper Elliot Farmer saved the initial attempt, but the referee ruled that a Real Salt Lake – Arizona player had stepped into the box too early and awarded a retake. Schwartz made no mistake with his second opportunity.
Stung by what they believed were two bad decisions against them, RSL-AZ raised their level of play and were rewarded two minutes later as Velasco powered his way into the box before depositing the ball into the back of the net.
Three minutes later Velasco would strike again with his second and the team’s fifth goal. Again, RSL-AZ academy’s forwards combined well with Velasco arriving late to finish the play.
In the 57th minute Gavin would collect his second goal of the game as he arrived at the back post area to power home the ball, Velasco again being the provider.
Substitute Carlos Garay, danced his way past two Striker defenders before slipping the ball past the onrushing goalkeeper giving the home side a six goal cushion. Josh Goss scored the eighth and final goal after a scramble in front of the Strikers goalmouth.
The RSL-AZ U16 soccer academy team met up with a determined Strikers team that was convinced that they could defend strongly and maybe snatch a winner on a counter attack. After 29 long minutes the Real Salt Lake – Arizona
academy broke through with forward Jose Navarro getting on the end of a flowing attacking move, down the right flank, finishing his opportunity with conviction. RSL-AZ 1 – Strikers FC 0
Andrew Brody, with a solo run scored the second goal after 37 minutes. RSL-AZ had been knocking on the door for most of the first half and went into the halftime break two goals up.
The Strikers, who had some counter opportunities in the first half did capitalize on the break 10 minutes into the second half. Romario Sanchez got in behind the Real Salt Lake – Arizona defense and pulled one back.
Before the Strikers could finish celebrating, RSL-AZ had regained their two goal lead. Benji Lopez sliced through the Strikers rearguard and stroked the ball home for his team’s third goal of the game.
Now completely in control of the game, Real Salt Lake – Arizona went further ahead when Trevor Hyman collected a pass from Navarro 25 yards from goal and hit a thunderbolt that the motionless Striker’s keeper did not see until it hit the back of the net.
With the game in hand, RSL-AZ took their foot off the gas and the Californians made them pay. Forward Felipe Liborio stole in behind the Real Salt Lake – Arizona defense and cracked home a nice goal for his team’s second goal
The U18 team also played their final conference game but will have to wait for results from other games before they can claim a playoff spot. The USSDA playoffs begin, June 24, in Dallas Texas.of the game. Less than a minute later the referee called time with the home team’s 4-2 victory enough to guarantee a playoff spot.