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Slammers FC HB Køge
Slammers Futbol Club, currently also known as Slammers FC HB Køge, is an American youth soccer club based in Newport Beach, California. It is a member of the Elite Clubs National League (ECNL). History Slammers was founded by brothers Walid and Ziad Khoury in 1994. , the club has won 17 national championships and become one of the most successful youth clubs in the United States. Slammers won the ECNL Girls Overall Club Championship in 2011–12, 2015–16, 2018–19, 2020–21, and 2022–23. Mia Hamm began coaching for Slammers in 2009, and the Los Angeles FC co-owner brought about a partnership that renamed the youth club LAFC Slammers. Danish club HB Køge announced their partnership with Slammers in 2021, after which the youth club has played teams under the name Slammers FC HB Køge. Notable people Players *Danesha Adams * Maddie Bauer *Julia Bingham * Ashley Bowyer *Zakiya Bywaters *Madison Curry *Makenzy Doniak *Whitney Engen *Haley Hopkins * Natalie Jacobs * Savannah K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newport Beach, California
Newport Beach is a coastal city of about 85,000 in southern Orange County, California, United States. Located about southeast of downtown Los Angeles, Newport Beach is known for its sandy beaches. The city's harbor once supported maritime industries. Today it is used mostly for recreation. Balboa Island, Newport Beach, Balboa Island draws visitors with a waterfront path and easy access from the ferry to the shops and restaurants. History The Upper Bay of Newport is a canyon carved by a stream in the Pleistocene period. The Lower Bay of Newport was formed much later by sand brought along by ocean currents, which constructed the offshore beach now recognized as the Balboa Peninsula of Newport Beach. For thousands of years, the Tongva people lived on the land in an extensive, thriving community. The Tongva villages of Genga, California, Genga and Moyongna were located in Newport Beach. The Spanish Empire colonized the land, followed by Alta California, Mexicans and Treaty of Gua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitney Engen
Whitney Elizabeth Engen (born November 28, 1987) is an American former soccer player and FIFA Women's World Cup champion. She played as a defender for the United States women's national soccer team as well as the Boston Breakers of the National Women's Soccer League, the highest division of women's soccer in the United States. She first appeared for the United States national team during the 2011 Algarve Cup in a match against Norway on March 4. During her time with the team, she made 40 appearances for the team and scored four goals. Engen has represented the United States in one FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015 and one Olympic tournament in 2016. Engen played collegiate soccer with the North Carolina Tar Heels from 2006 to 2009. Following her collegiate career, she was selected fourth overall by the Chicago Red Stars in the 2010 WPS Draft that took place on January 15, 2010. Between 2011 and 2015, Engen played professionally for the Western New York Flash, Tyresö FF, Pali Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan O'Brien
Jordan Montgomery O'Brien (born October 11, 1992) is an American soccer player who currently plays for Stockton Cargo in the USL W League. Early life O'Brien was born to Patrick and Jean O'Brien and raised in Huntington Beach, California. Her brother, Kyle, is also a professional soccer player, playing for California United Strikers FC in the NISA. Her dad played soccer as well. O'Brien, who graduated from Marina High School in 2010, was a four-year letterwinner soccer player at the school. She was a two-time Sunset League MVP (2008, 2010). As a youth, Watt also played club soccer for the Slammers FC. With the team, she won fourteen state and national titles. College career O'Brien attended University of Tulsa from 2010 to 2013 and played for the Tulsa Golden Hurricane women's soccer team under head coach Kyle Cussen. She played four years for the Tulsa Golden Hurricane, finishing her university career with 8 goals and 19 assists in 79 games played. During her career at Tulsa, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariah Nogueira
Mariah Meaalii Bullock (; born 22 February 1991) is an American-born Samoan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for the Samoa women's national team. A former United States youth international, Bullock has played in the professional National Women's Soccer League for the Boston Breakers and Seattle Reign FC. Early life Bullock was born in Huntington Beach, California to Doreen Meaalii Nogueira and Rubens Nogueira, and was raised in the fellow Orange County city of Westminster. She attended and played for Marina High School in Huntington Beach, California. She earned NSCAA Youth All-America and High School Scholar-Athlete All-America honors and was named an ESPN All-American while captaining the team for three years. She earned Sunset League MVP honors, was named to the All-Orange County first team three times and the All-Southern Section first team twice. She was named Marina Female Athlete of the Year twice. While playing for Cal South, she won three State Cups ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenna Nighswonger
Jenna Gray Nighswonger ( ; born November 28, 2000) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a left back for Women's Super League club Arsenal and the United States women's national team. She played college soccer for the Florida State Seminoles, winning the 2021 national championship, before being drafted fourth overall by NJ/NY Gotham FC in the 2023 NWSL Draft. She was named the NWSL Rookie of the Year and lifted the NWSL Championship trophy with Gotham in her first season. Nighswonger debuted for the United States senior national team in 2023. She won the gold medal with the United States at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Early life and college career Nighswonger played youth soccer for Slammers FC, winning a U14 ECNL National Championship. She also participated in the US Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program. Nighswonger graduated from Huntington Beach High School in December 2018. She played soccer for the school until her junior year, when she instead opted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley Nick
Ashley Lynn Nick (born October 27, 1987) is an American former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. College career Nick played college soccer at USC from 2005 to 2008. She scored her first collegiate goal on September 17, 2006 against UNLV. Nick co-captained the USC team that won the 2007 NCAA Women’s Soccer National Championship. Nick was named to the All-Pac-10 First Team in 2007 and 2008. Club career She moved to play for FC Twente. There she won the 2010–11 Eredivisie title. In 2012, she moved to Toppserien side Arna-Bjørnar before moving back in 2013 to the United States by joining Pali Blues and later joined Sky Blue FC. On December 12, 2014, she was traded to the Houston Dash for a draft position in the second and fourth rounds of the 2015 NWSL College Draft. On May 11, 2015, she was traded to the Western New York Flash for Defender Toni Pressley. In the 2015–16 American off-season Nick scored five goals in six Cypriot First Division games with A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack McBean
John Lucas "Jack" McBean (born December 15, 1994) is an American former professional soccer player who played as a forward. Club career McBean, a California native, formally signed for LA Galaxy at the age of 16 in April 2011. As of July 2011, he was the youngest player to have signed for the club in its history. He had previously played for the LA Galaxy under-16s and, prior to that, Slammers FC and Corona del Mar High School. He was widely regarded as one of the greatest talents to ever come through the Galaxy academy. He was assigned the number 32 shirt for the 2011 Major League Soccer season. He made his first appearance for the club in a friendly match against Manchester City on July 24, 2011, coming on as a 66th-minute substitute for teammate Miguel Pedro López. The ''Los Angeles Times'' noted that he "quickly provided a threat" after appearing, while Fox Sports West stated that he "immediately made an impact" in the game. The match finished 1-1, but included a penalty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kayla Mills
Kayla Danielle Mills (born November 8, 1995) is an American soccer player who plays for GPSO 92 Issy in the Division 1 Féminine in France. Career Mills spent her college soccer career at USC where she played from 2013 to 2016. She was part of the team in 2016 that won the NCAA National Championship. Mills was drafted by Sky Blue FC with the 4th overall pick in the 2017 NWSL College Draft. She appeared in 16 games in 2017, starting 13 of them. Mills was named to Sky Blue FC's 2018 roster. She was released by Sky Blue on June 15, 2018, to make room on the roster for Imani Dorsey. Mills did not appear in a game for Sky Blue in 2018. After being released by Sky Blue, Mills signed with CSFA Ambilly in the D2, in France. She made her debut for the team on September 23, 2018. At the end of the season 2019-2020 stopped before the end by COVID-19, she signed with another French Team, FF Issy, promoted in D1 Personal life Mills is a native of West Covina, California, and attended Flin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Destinee Manzo
Destinee Noel Manzo Paolinetti (born 2 August 2000) is a professional footballer who plays as a Winger for Liga MX Femenil side León. Born and raised in the United States, she represents Mexico internationally. Career In 2023, she started her career in América. In 2024, she was transferred to Pachuca. In 2024, she joined León. International career Manzo was part of the squad of Mexico U-20 women's national football team that finished as Runners-up at the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship The 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship was the 10th edition of the CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, the biennial international youth association football, football championship organized by CONCACAF for the women's under-20 national teams .... References External links * * 2000 births Living people Mexican women's footballers Women's association football forwards Mexico women's youth international footballers American women's soccer players American sportsp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Long (soccer)
Mary Angela Long (born January 24, 2007) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for the Kansas City Current of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She played one season of college soccer for the Duke Blue Devils before joining the Kansas City Current, which is co-owned by her parents, Angie and Chris Long. She won bronze with the United States at the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Early life and college career Long grew up in Mission Hills, Kansas, one of four children born to Angie and Chris Long. She began playing soccer when she was three. At age 12, she traveled with a regional all-star team to an international tournament in France that coincided with the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup; the trip sparked her parents' interest in buying a women's soccer team, which became the Kansas City Current. Long, playing up an age group, scored the winning goal for KC Athletics in the under-15 ECNL national championship in 2021. She helped California-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Levin
Camille Levin Ashton (born Camille Tayla Levin; April 24, 1990) is an American retired professional soccer defender and the current general manager of the NWSL club San Diego Wave FC. Levin Ashton played for the Stanford Cardinal women's soccer team that won the 2011 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament. She last played for Vålerenga in the Toppserien and in 2013 was the captain of the United States U-23 women's national soccer team. Early life Levin Ashton was born in California to Desmond and Diane Levin, both from South Africa, and is Jewish. She has two younger siblings, Jay and Savannah Levin; the latter played for the USC Trojans women's soccer team that won the 2016 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament. Levin Ashton attended Tarbut V'Torah Community Day School, a Jewish school in Irvine, California, where she played on a co-ed team for at least one season and was named to the NSCAA All-America team in 2006 and 2007. With the Cal South Olympic Development ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacha Kljestan
Sacha Bryan Kljestan (; born September 9, 1985) is an American former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. He currently is a studio host on MLS Season Pass. Youth and college Kljestan was raised in Huntington Beach, California, and played for the Region IV Olympic Development Program team. He played three years of college soccer at Seton Hall University in New Jersey under former United States national team coach Manfred Schellscheidt. He was named NCAA Division I First-Team All-America in 2004 and earned third-team honors in 2005. Kljestan was named Big East Conference Offensive Player of the Year in 2005 and earned first-team All-Big East in 2004 and 2005. He holds the single-season assists record at Seton Hall with 15 in 2005 and ranks fifth all-time at the school with 28 over a three-year career. Kljestan finished his college career with 20 goals and helped Seton Hall University to three NCAA Tournament appearances. Club career Kljestan signed a Generation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
