Category: football

  • World’s Oldest Club

    Sheffield Football Club

    Sheffield Football Club, in Sheffield, England (in the middle of England, about 63 miles east of Liverpool) is the oldest documented non-university club, founded in 1857.  It initially played a code of its own devising.  The club was one of the first to join the new English Football Association (FA) in 1863 and is recognized by both the FA and FIFA as the world’s oldest club now playing association football.

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  • Origins of Soccer

    Origins of the Word “Soccer”

    In the late 1800s it was the practice of the well-to-do students at Oxford University in England to shorten the length of some common words. At the same time they would add -er to the end of the word. For example, breakfast became known as “brekkers”. There were two forms of “football” being played on campus at the time. One used the Rugby Rules and the other form used the rules governed by the

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  • Soccer Info for Parents

    SOCCER FOR PARENTS – USSF VERSION

    (Courtesy of Miles Ball)For a printable version of this document Click HERE!

    Following is a summary of soccer for the parent who wants to learn more. This is by no means all the rules listed in the three 100 plus page books a referee must study, but it will help.

    HISTORY OF FOOTBALL

    (Soccer to us Americans)

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  •  What is a Soccer Club?

    Most of us think of a “club” from their childhood, of something to join with their friends. A soccer club is much the same, a group of people, typically parents, come together to help in their children’s soccer development and have some fun. They realize more can be accomplished in a group than as an individual so they establish a formal organization with Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws to have a frame work to operate their club.

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  • Mike Varga

    Head Coach – Women’s Soccer

    University of South Alabama

    251-414-8253 

    [email protected]

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  • 99 Girls Blue Photos

    Photo Albums
    Top Gun Invitational – October 2008
    Emerald Coast Cup – April 2008
    Blue Angel Classic October 2007

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  • 96 Boys Blue Photos

    97 Boys Blue v. NAU Madison 111211
    97 Boys Blue v. Fussball 110611
    97 Boys Blue v. EAFC 110511
    97 Boys Blue v. Blast FC 110511
    97 Boys Blue v. VFC Arsenal 102211
    97 Boys Blue v. Gulf Coast United 100211
    97 Boys Blue v. Hattiesburg 100111
    97 Boys Blue v. EAFC Storm 092511
    97 Boys Blue v. NAU Madison Phoenix 092411
    97 Boys Blue v. Cajun Fury 091811
    97 Boys Blue v. Mississippi Fire 091711
    97 Boys Blue v. Homewood 082711
    97 Boys Blue v. Legends 082711
    97 Boys Blue v. Louisiana Fire 082111
    97 Boys Blue v. Mandeville 082011