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  • Join The Movement – January 2018

    Upcoming Events & Volunteer Opportunities Highlight: NYC Breakfast Fundraiser on February 28th with Kyle Martino RSVP: Event@streeetsoccerusa.org Highlight: SF Breakfast Fundraiser on March 7th with Jeremy Gunn, Danielle Slaton, Jimmy Conrad RSVP: BayArea@streetsoccerusa.org Email: BayArea@streetsoccerusa.org to get involved!     East Bay Programs Kick Off When: Week of Jan 22 Location: East Bay Who is Attending: East Bay Youth Programs…

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  • Exploring the World with SSUSA – Angie Garcia

    Angie Garcia has been involved with Street Soccer USA for almost two years. Through her time as a player on SSUSA Bay Area’s Team Change, Angie has truly exemplified SSUSA’s Skill “Play with Heart”. In the story below, you will find out more about Angie’s experience traveling with SSUSA’s National Team to the Homeless World…

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  • SSUSA Portland Makes Strides With PCFC

    Street Soccer USA Portland in the News  Lewis Leads Street Soccer Portland to Help Homeless, Refugees, At-Risk Youth Click Here to Read Affiliate Partner, PCFC Extending a Helping Hand to SSUSA Portland SSUSA Portland is making tremendous strives partnering with outstanding and courageous organizations such as the PCFC. Similar to SSUSA, Kaig Lightner, the founder and…

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  • Bringing Communities Together Around The Country

    Ending the Season with a Bang at the Red Hook Street Soccer Courts! The end of the season celebration was truly a heartwarming event for those participants, supporters and coaches involved at SSUSA NY End of the Season Celebration. Congregating at the SSUSA Mini Pitches in Red Hook, teams from East New York, Bronx, Flatbush…

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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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  • Join The Movement – November 2017

      Upcoming Events & Volunteer Opportunities Email: VOLUNTEER@STREETSOCCERUSA.ORG to signup! SUSA Orientation When: Wednesday, 12/6, 6:00-7:00pm Location: SSUSA Office (701 Oak Street, SF) Tenderloin Street Soccer Fest When: Friday, 12/8, 3:00-5:00pm Location: Tenderloin Children’s Playground MLS Cup – SSUSA Fundraiser (5th Annual) When: Saturday, 12/9, 12:00pm-4:00pm Location: SF Athletic Club Sacramento Soccer Fest When: Saturday, December 2, from 12pm-4pm…

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  • Living Out SSUSA Values Around The Country

      SSUSA Value#1 – “We believe in Promise” Christopher Rivera Continues on His Path to Success At SSUSA we play for more. More opportunities to win both on and off the soccer pitch. SSUSA Chicago, Program Participant Christopher Rivera has done just this. Transferring the skills learned the last 4 years with SSUSA, we are…

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  • Player of the Month

    From an Adult Participant to SSUSA Volunteer to a SSUSA Coach, Jen Schpira finds her Family with Street Soccer USA  “As the first female SSUSA player from Sacramento, I felt like I had a very unique perspective as to how the SSUSA experience could positively affect other women and to the challenges that women faced in…

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  • World Football and LA84 Foundation Summits

    Street Soccer USA’s vision, mission, and work is being recognized nationally and internationally. Our founder and CEO, Lawrence Cann was invited to the World Football Summit in Madrid, Spain as well as the LA84 Sport Summit in Los Angeles, California to speak about the Street Soccer USA model and the power of soccer to achieve social impact. The World…

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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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  • Up2US AmeriCorps Coach

    To apply: Please send a brief cover letter, including a statement about your experience coaching or playing soccer, and current resume to avery@streetsoccerusa.org  Up2US AmeriCorps Coach at Street Soccer USA Position: Serve as aN Up2Us Sports’ AmeriCorps Coach with Street Soccer USA in the SF Bay Area About Street Soccer USA: w ww.streetsoccerusa.org Street Soccer…

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  • Join The Movement – October 2017

    Upcoming Events & Volunteer Opportunities Email: VOLUNTEER@STREETSOCCERUSA.ORG to signup!   East Bay Street Soccer Fest(s) When: Friday 10/27, 3:30pm-5:30pm When: Friday 12/1, 3:30pm-5:30pm Location: Franklin Elementary SSUSA Match Days @ SSUSA Park When: Saturday 11/4 & 12/2, 2:00pm – 4:00pm Location: Street Soccer USA Park – The Yard @ Mission Rock Who is Attending: SSUSA…

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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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  • New Program in Sacramento

    New Opportunities for Youth in Sacramento   For generations, thousands of Sacramento’s poor have lived in semi-seclusion in the shadows of the cemetery, largely cut off from the city around it. Street Soccer USA Sacramento is proving to be a bright spot partnering with surrounding community members and businesses. The Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency,…

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  • NYC Off-The-Field Curriculum

    Sunset Park Homework Help   Street Soccer USA – NYC recently launched a reading and homework help group for our U7 and U9 teams in Sunset Park. As part of  service coordination model, we do a needs assessment of where we can effectively support and refer youth and families to resources in their communities or…

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  • Player of the Month

    Nawaf Alnawfi, newest member of the Street Soccer USA Park Staff   Nawaf has been a Street Soccer USA Program Participant for 16 months.  In that time, he has successfully graduated from high school, began his four year college degree at SFSU, and most recently obtained a job through the SSUSA Job Skills Academy.  The…

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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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  • JOB OPPORTUNITY: Bay Area Youth Coach

    Street Soccer USA – Youth Program, Coach Position: Serve as an accredited Street Soccer USA Coach in the Bay Area. Locations include San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, San Rafael, San Jose About Street Soccer USA: Street Soccer USA uses the power of soccer to help people of all ages and backgrounds discover their strengths and take positive…

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