Month: March 2018

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Twin Cities FC wins Texas Premier Soccer League Championship

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The Texas Premier Soccer League (TPSL) overcame a number of obstacles to get to last Saturday’s regular season finale…the TPSL League Cup Final.  Among these challenges, the Houston teams had to deal with scheduling issues due to Hurricane Harvey last fall, one of the teams left the league mid-season and, as a result, a new Championship game venue needed to be secured. All of that was forgotten last Saturday afternoon in San Antonio when Twin Cities FC (TC FC) from border city Eagle Pass rode three goals from mid-season addition Braulio Guillen to a 5-1 thumping of the Galveston Hurricanes … Continue reading Twin Cities FC wins Texas Premier Soccer League Championship

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PDL’s AHFC Royals-Ambitious Youth Soccer Club takes the next step

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Albion Hurricanes FC, a Houston, Texas youth soccer club founded eighteen years ago, has ambitiously expanded through the years to construct a program that now comprises dozens of boys and girls youth teams who train and play at multiple campuses in the western half of the city.  This growth has produced a deliberately constructed pyramid that allows players to progress from recreation to high levels of youth competition in an integrated pathway.   Last October the club announced the next step in their evolution, the creation of a new Premier Development League (PDL) team that further demonstrates their commitment to produce … Continue reading PDL’s AHFC Royals-Ambitious Youth Soccer Club takes the next step

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Houston Dynamo destroy Atlanta United-Three observations and photos

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The Houston Dynamo opened the 2018 MLS season with a 4-0 destruction of Atlanta United on a pleasant overcast Saturday afternoon at BBVA Compass Stadium. Three observations after watching the match in Houston yesterday First:  Alberth Elis is pretty good I can only remember one other time when a Dynamo attacking player made as much of an impact, without scoring a goal, as Alberth Elis did yesterday.  That would be in August of 2012 when Macoumba Kandji ran up and down the left side all day, terrorizing Heath Pearce and the New York Red Bulls in a 2-0 victory.  That … Continue reading Houston Dynamo destroy Atlanta United-Three observations and photos