Street Soccer USA Press Box

Category: National

  • Urban Soccer Symposium – Blue Card

    Following the Keynote Address from USWNT stars  Kristine Lilly and Abby Wambach, Street Soccer USA’s founder Lawrence Cann was a featured speaker at the Urban Soccer Symposium in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, March 25th.   The presentation, titled, ‘What is a BLUE CARDtm – Design Innovations for Social Impact, A Practical Guide, Lawrence lead the group…

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  • SSUSA – Around The Country

    NYC Adult Program Introduced to Massage Therapy A monthly partnership with local massage therapist Rebecca Klinger has the NYC Adult Program feeling relaxed and limber! The exciting partnership was formed over Thanksgiving dinner this past November. Rebecca, a long-time family friend of Coach Reed, expressed a desire to bring something special and different to the…

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  • Hope Solo’s Greatest Triumphs are Overcoming Adversity

    Hope Solo is a world champion athlete and a leading voice for equality for women in sport. Right now she running to be President of the US Soccer Federation. To often we make snap judgements about people for a variety of reasons. Anyone who has an opinion of Hope shouldn’t  make it based on a…

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  • US Soccer President

    Street Soccer USA Endorses Kyle Martino For US Soccer Federation President   Dear Friends, Supporters, Colleagues, and Everyone invested in US Soccer, I returned last month from the World Football Summit in Madrid where, as the founder and president of Street Soccer USA, I spoke on a panel hosted by the FC Barcelona Foundation and…

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  • Common Goal

    CHRIS WONDOLOWSKI TEAMS UP WITH USWNT STARS FOR COMMON GOAL   USMNT striker joins Manchester United’s Juan Mata, World Cup winners Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan and Heather O’Reilly in pledging 1% of his wages to high impact soccer charities, in Wondolowski’s case, Street Soccer USA. #CommonGoal   Chris Wondolowski – Common Goal from Street Soccer…

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  • US Soccer Can Do Well By Doing Good

    The United States soccer community is grieving after our failure to qualify for the World Cup, probably with good reason. Kids across the country will miss out during their formative years on cheering together for their country in the World Cup of the sport they love. Everyone who plays soccer or cheers for the US…

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  • Around the Country

    (Year-to-date Participants: 77) SSUSA Portland Receives Timbers Community Fund Grant On October 24th the Portland Timbers Community Fund (PTCF) advisory board awarded a grant to SSUSA-Portland, giving special recognition to youth program participants with a special on the field halftime presentation. Portland’s lead, Adam Lewis, states, “It was an incredible experience for our youth to…

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  • Blue Card

    SSUSA Blue Card Concept Spreads Street Soccer USA has been a leader in developing program techniques that make soccer more accessible and set a culture of personal development. Whether it was creating the first SSUSA Park concept back in 2007 in Charlotte, North Carolina or our social enterprise soccer leagues that generate revenue for our programs,…

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