Futsal writes the future in Torrance
Players on the U.S. Futsal National Team scrimmage Thursday at South Coast Soccer City in Torrance (Photo by Staff Photographer Brad Graverson).
When it comes to U.S. national outdoor soccer teams, the South Bay is already home to all but the Under-17 boys national team program (that has its HQ in Bradenton, Fla.), based at the National Training Center at Home Depot Center in Carson.
Now the U.S. Futsal National Team has relocated from Milwaukee, Wisc., to Torrance all because of the presence of what is believed to be the finest indoor soccer facility in the nation, two-year-old South Coast Soccer City.
The futsal team just opened its first camp in two years in preparation for the CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers.
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Sportswriter Nick Green has written the 100 Percent Soccer column since 2005 for the Daily News, Daily Breeze and other Los Angeles area newspapers. The blog of the same name began in 2007. A native of England, he began writing about soccer in the mid-1980s and in 2000 permanently exchanged a seat in the stands for one in the press box. He lives six miles from Carson's Home Depot Center, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas USA and the training headquarters for U.S. Soccer and is married to a long-suffering soccer widow. Join Nick on FaceBook and follow him on Twitter.
Great to see soccer city get recognised. See local boys make national team is very cool. Maybe they should have had open tryouts for other local boys. Give soccer nuts something to look up to.Hope they do well in Brazil. Good article Nick. JV.
So Nick, did you see any skillful players?
Keep an eye on Lucas Stauffer, at 16 the youngest - and maybe the smallest - member of the team. This kid can move.
So Nick, does Keith Tozer have a full head of hair now?