South Bay Force Technical Director Todd Saldaña would like to announce our U.S. Development Academy partnership with Coast Soccer League standout Pateadores.
The U.S. Development Academy’s is considered the highest level of play in the United States for a youth player. South Bay Force’s top BU15-19 male players will now have the opportunity to be part of the player pool and be selected to play in the U.S. Development Academy league through a unique partnership with the Pateadores Soccer Club, based out of Southern Orange County.
Several South Bay Force players have already made their presence known in the first few months of the USDA. Jose Rivera from our BU-16 Premier Champions coached by Pancho Diaz was selected to the U.S. U18 National Team Camp held at The Home Depot Center in late December and Kevin Garcia-Lopez from BU-17 Black Premier coached by Javier Perez was selected as the U.S. Development Academy’s National Player of The Week for the Under 18 level.
South Bay Force players selected to the Pateadores/SBF USDA rosters:
BU-16 Team: Kevin Alva (BU-17 Black), Fabian Arroyo (BU-17 Black), Jordon Cordon (BU-17) Blue, Julien Hameed (BU-17 Blue), Adam Hobbs (BU-16 Black), Miguel Lira (BU-17 Blue), Pedro Lugo (BU-16 Black), Graeme Mathers (BU-17 Blue) and Jose Rivera (BU-16 Premier).
BU-18 Team: Maxx Bauman (BU-17 Blue), Kevin Garcia-Lopez (BU-17 Black), Nick Gomez-Garcia (BU-17 Black), Sergio Guevara (BU-18 Black), Sota Maesawa (BU-17 Blue), Jack McCracken (BU-17 Black) and Kyrian Nwabueze (BU-17 Blue)
The following is an overview of the Academy:
The Development Academy is a partnership between U.S. Soccer and the top youth clubs around the country to provide the best youth players in the U.S. with an every day environment designed to produce the next generation of National Team players. The Academy’s programming philosophy of increased training, less total games and more competitive games is based on U.S. Soccer’s Best Practices utilized by the U-17 U.S. National Team Residency program.
The Academy also connects National Team coaches directly with the Academy clubs to develop and identify players and coaches for future Youth National Teams. Each Academy team is evaluated by a National Team coach at least ten times each year and each Academy club receives two formal evaluations in over 100 categories each year from National Team staff.
The Development Academy is also focused on identifying and developing the next generation of elite referees. U.S. Soccer assigns up-and-coming officials to participate in Academy games at the local level and at national events.
Any Questions regarding our partnership with Pateadores or the U.S. Development Academy please contact Todd Saldaña tsaldana@southbayforce.net
