Tournaments

A classic matchup for two top U-18 girls’ teams in Jefferson Cup opener

For the VSA Heat Blue and PDA Crush Under-18 players, it would seem that, on the surface, they have little to play for at the Jefferson Cup.

Jefferson Cup 2013 Girls Weekend – Day 1 recap and photo gallery

The Jefferson Cup 2013 Girls Weekend started Friday, and here's some of the sights from Day 1.

Jeff Cup: Northerners travel south for soccer opportunities

Jefferson Cup: Boys Weekend dodges bad weather, produces excellent matches

The Boys Weekend of the 2013 Jefferson Cup played out in successful fashion in Richmond, Va. over the weekend, overcoming last week's snowy visit from a late-winter storm to produce three days of good soccer in front of college scouts and sizeable clusters of fans.

For Matanuska Soccer Club, a long way to go, but they’re getting there

For most teams, getting to the 2013 Jefferson Cup wasn’t a complicated one. But none of them were from the Matanuska Soccer Club of Wasilla, Alaska.

For all teams, always something to play for at Jefferson Cup

Without semifinal or finals games to be played in some of the brackets, it didn’t mean there wasn’t anything to play for on the final day of the 2013 Jefferson Cup Boys Weekend.

Young teams find their ways to success at Jefferson Cup

Teams in the younger age groups at the Jefferson Cup displayed a remarkable degree of creativity on the ball as they begin to pick up the more technical parts of the game, whether playing full-sided 11v11, or smaller-sided 7v7 or 8v8 as they work their way to the full-sided teams in the older age groups.

“Sometimes you have to roll with the punches” – Strikers scramble to save Jeff Cup

The sun was warm and bright in Richmond, Va. on Sunday as hundreds of Jefferson Cup matches played out across the Virginia capital. Few of those present could know that the whole thing was very nearly destroyed by a storm which had dropped heavy levels of rain and snow at midweek.