Street Soccer USA News

Over the last year Street Soccer Philadelphia has partnered with Feliz Filadelfia, a baseball organization, to expand into soccer and into more communties. The Street Soccer Felix Filadelfia soccer club has already enrolled and reatined 240 members and is poised for growth. One outgrowth of this partnership was the connection made by FF’s Dan Gordon to…

Dear Street Soccer Supporters Club Members: I’m Lisa Wrightsman. As someone who played in the Homeless World Cup, who has coached Homeless World Cup teams, and who to was able host the Homeless World Cup in my hometown of Sacramento, I want to implore you to watch the video about Sienna above, and to read…

There is no Street Soccer event bigger or more impactful than the Street Soccer USA Times Square Cup and 2024 was no exception, thanks to partners UNIQLO, BVB, and NYC’s Dept of Youth and Community Development. 🌎 25M viewers World Wide 🏆 Borussia Dortmund Backed Youth Cup – READ OFFICIAL BVB REPORT HERE ⚽ 500+ Street Soccer players…

The Minnesota Department of Human Services honored ten refugees for making a difference in their communities. Among them, Hani Haybe, founder of Street Soccer  Twin Cities.  Haybe a Somali Refugee, was homeless and played for SSUSA Minneapolis. She now leads the program and has received this honor from the state of Minnesota for her work…

PRESS RELEASE: IRVINE, Calif. – August 4, 2020 – (Newswire.com) ​​​In 2009, brothers Lawrence Cann and Rob Cann had a dream. In 2015, brothers Joe Burke and John Burke had one as well. Both sets of brothers held a long-standing passion for soccer, but their ultimate vision was to help develop and train future players regardless of background or financial position and to…

Lucas Marton, known as Luca by most, is fresh off an Instagram Live soccer bingo challenge when he sits down to chat with us. He laughs, and tells us about how:  “The silver lining with covid is that the whole program is available to everyone. A player from New York dialed in. A 12 year…

Dear Team: The murder of George Floyd is painful and intolerable. It is an expression of the systemic racism that pervades the United States. Street Soccer USA was founded on the notion that we all must do our part to fight for a more just society where racism and its effects no longer oppress and…

Last weekend, the WPSL semi-pro team California Storm partnered up with Sactown FC podcast to host a used cleat drive, collecting close to 150 pairs of used cleats that will be donated to Street Soccer USA Sacramento. The cleat drive is part of a new initiative for Sactown FC and CA Storm called “Reboot.” The…

All across the Street Soccer USA landscape, fall programs are winding down as the days get shorter and colder. We had a fantastic season of the Street League featuring Community Clubs, adult programs and after-school programs. Many cities celebrated the success of the last few months with end of season festivals. Check out a few…

(LOS ANGELES) Much of Street Soccer USA’s Los Angeles programming is focused around the Watts Imperial Courts, a famous housing project with a longstanding history in LA. LAFC, Adidas and Red Eye Foundation built a futsal court there that SSUSA uses for programming. This summer and fall, we hosted Community Club practices in Watts twice…

Street Soccer USA Portland, along with partner organization Parrott Creek Child and Family Services, was honored with the 2019 Impact Award by the Multnomah Athletic Foundation in Portland. The Impact Award recognizes the positive impact of a nonprofit organization through its support of youth, athletic participation and community collaboration. SSUSA Portland and Parrott Creek were…

The saying goes, “you never know when lightning will strike.” That may no longer be true thanks to computer learning and a space-based lightning monitoring system.   Lightning is a major threat to people and property each year, especially in the summer. There’s a new tool that could revolutionize lightning safety. A machine-learning algorithm developed by…