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INDIANAPOLIS — It had been three years since the Indy Eleven exited the U.S. Open Cup with a tournament win in tow. After embarrassing road losses to amateur teams the past two years — the Michigan Bucks in 2017 and Mississippi Brilla in 2018 — Indy finally got off...
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INDIANAPOLIS — At halftime of Friday’s National Futsal Premier League (NFPL) final between the Ann Arbor Mudpuppies and Futsal Indy, the scoreboard read 1-1. Eighteen second-half goals later, the Mudpuppies lifted the trophy as the first-ever NFPL postseason champions after surging to a 13-7 win. It was a wild...
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INDIANAPOLIS — Target and United Soccer Coaches have teamed up to offer free coaching courses via their Urban Soccer Initiative, enabling those who complete the course to receive an official coaching license, the Urban Soccer-Futsal Diploma. Indiana Futsal and the Irsay Family YMCA have joined them in the endeavor...
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WESTFIELD, Ind. — Sogility, a soccer-specific indoor training facility just north of Indianapolis, has announced plans to host two-v-two soccer tennis tournaments. The first one will be held May 11 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. It’s for players eight and older, including adults, and $50 per team to...
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INDIANAPOLIS — After hitting the road and losing to vastly inferior competition in the past couple editions of the U.S. Open Cup, the Indy Eleven have decided it’s time to take one of the oldest soccer competitions on the planet a little more seriously. The Eleven will host a...
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The show Josh Penn put on in the Indy Eleven’s 2-1 loss to Saint Louis FC on Saturday was so enthralling that the only thing missing was Teller. The U-19 U.S. men’s national team member and Indiana Hoosiers commit regularly diced up opponents on the left flank and showed...
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Indy Eleven manager Martin Rennie somewhat prides himself on being cryptic about his lineups and tactics, especially during the preseason. The first time I interviewed him and inquired about his coaching philosophy shortly after he took the job, he told me he didn’t want to give...
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Boca Raton FC will host the first-ever Lower Division Soccer Summit the weekend of March 30, the club announced Monday. The event is invitation only and will be held at a to-be-determined location in Boca Raton, Fla. Inspired in part by Chattanooga FC’s Summit for American Soccer in 2018,...
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. – In the final preseason fixture for both sides ahead of the start of the 2019 USL Championship season, the Indy Eleven and Nashville SC battled to a nil-nil draw Saturday afternoon at Arad McCutchan Stadium on the campus of the University of Evansville. An absurdly choppy...
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Cleveland SC had heard the horror stories of rushed NPSL launches. They don’t always go so swimmingly. Take the case of Los Angeles-based City of Angels FC, for example. In about two weeks’ time, the club assembled a roster, landed a venue, and designed a crest and kit. While...
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INDIANAPOLIS and NAIROBI, Kenya — The Kutoa Project, a nonprofit based in Nairobi, has a purpose that’s easy to get behind. And now you can support it while rocking a fresh, limited-edition kit in the process. The Kutoa Project has partnered with apparel outfitter Icarus to manufacture a fly...
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INDIANAPOLIS — The stakes were elevated between Futsal Indy and Grand Rapids ABK, two squads knotted up atop the National Futsal Premier League (NFPL) table with four points apiece, entering Saturday’s contest at Park Tudor High School. And with raised stakes generally comes raised intensity. Futsal Indy defended its...