The greatest player I’ve ever seen play won the greatest match that I’ve ever seen played. If that doesn’t warrant a post, I don’t know what does. Gracias, Lionel Messi, por toda la alegría que nos has brindado a mí…
I dig listening to the national anthems before all World Cup matches. But, let’s be clear: some anthems are better than others. Here is a list ranking the 16 anthems of the teams who made it to the knockout round…
In February 2022, Louden was finally able to head to the United Kingdom to train (with West Ham and Manchester City youth programs) and play three friendlies against locals clubs in/around London and Manchester (West Ham United Foundation, Egerton Football…
A quick post to, once again, thank you all for supporting Villanova Soccer Academy’s 2010 Roma squad! Your generosity helped replenish funds in advance of the upcoming spring season. Enough of you donated so that I could distribute a…
Back before we went to Barcelona in 2019, I put together a little highlight reel of Louden’s soccer highlights. Well, we’re heading to the U.K. next month, so I decided to go ahead and splice together a reel of Louden’s…
This year, Villanova Soccer Academy will feature its first ever squad for 2010 boys (among the best age groups not only in the area, but country), and my son Louden is on it after having played for the 2009 team…
Last weekend, the lad played a soccer match at Edgely Field in Fairmount. It was cool because that’s where he played sometimes when we could still use one hand to show how many years old he was. He scored in…
Saturday morning started with a 2-2 draw for VSA Milan 2009s. The afternoon saw the lad head up to New Hope to play an away match as a guest player for the hometown travel team (Colonial Soccer’s 2010 program). That’s…
Louden (No. 16) had himself a really nice match for Villanova Soccer Academy‘s 2009 Milan this past weekend (maybe his best playing up vs. older kids this season), so I spliced together some highlights with royalty-free music. Enjoy!
This goal put his squad ahead 3-2 with a couple minutes left in a muddy-field friendly this weekend. Alas, a conceded goal with fewer than 30 seconds remaining relegated it to non-game-winning-goal status. (Now he knows how I felt against…
