Wednesday, November 11, 2009

AFU sends 10 Players to Market Training Center

The US Soccer Federation held an identification camp on Saturday with 4 other clubs form the Southeast Division, Concorde Fire, AFC Lightning, Sout Carolina United, and Birmingham United. Players were selected via recent visits to regular season games by Federation scouts. Five players were selected from AFU's u-16 team, they were:

Jackson Taylor - Goalkeeper
Roberto Hinojosa - midfielder
Juan Herrera - midfielder/defennder
Chris Harrison - forward
Jeremy Rector - forward

And five players were selected from the u-18 team:

Brady O'Brien - defender
Alec Kronitz - defender
Ryan King - midfielder
Taylor Krek - midfielder
Luke Ade - forward

The players did some light technical work in the beginning of the session and then broke up into two groups and went through some tactical pattern play. The camp ended with a full 11 v11 game of 25 minute halves where players were closely evaluated.

The federation will be holding two more Market Training Centers in the Atlanta area one in the winter and one in the spring.

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