We know that your life is busy.<\/p>\n
So, we at New England Soccer Today decided to make your life simpler by creating a one-stop, no-frills forum highlighting what went down in New England soccer during the past week and allow you to catch up on anything you may have missed.<\/p>\n
Without further ado, here’s a snapshot of what happened during the past week:<\/p>\n
Sunday, Dec. 4<\/strong><\/p>\n The Revolution 16s and 18s both fell by the score of 3-0<\/a> to the Chicago Fire youth squads during their second games of the U.S. Soccer Development Academy Winter Showcase in Sarasota, Fla.<\/p>\n Later in the day, UConn fell in penalties 4-2\u00a0to tournament Cindarella UNC-Charlotte<\/a> after the schools were knotted at one through\u00a0two OTs. The 49ers continued their winning ways on Friday by upsetting Creighton to earn a trip to tomorrow’s tournament final against in-state rival UNC.<\/p>\n Monday, Dec. 5<\/strong><\/p>\n The Revolution used their second spot in Stage 1 of the Re-entry Draft to select former Rhody Ram Danleigh Borman<\/a>. The Revs have until Dec. 12 to sign the left back\/left-sided midfielder.<\/p>\n Tuesday,\u00a0Dec. 6<\/strong><\/p>\n The Revs 16s and 18s bounced back from Sunday’s defeats<\/a> with wins against North Meck SC. The 16s claimed a 3-2 victory while the 18s picked up a 3-0 clean sheet.<\/p>\n Boston Victory SC announced that it had joined the Premier Development League of USL<\/a> for the 2012 season. The addition of Boston is the second New England-based PDL squad set to kick off next year after Worcester Hydra FC was added to the league last week.<\/p>\n Wednesday, Dec. 7<\/strong><\/p>\n Nick Blake (UConn), Tony Cascio (UConn), Luckymore Mkosana (Dartmouth)\u00a0and Jhojan Obando (Providence)\u00a0were among 52 college seniors invited to next month’s MLS Combine<\/a>, which is scheduled for Jan. 6-10.<\/p>\n Thursday, Dec. 8<\/strong><\/p>\n
![Boston Victory SC announced that it had joined the Premier Development League of USL<\/a> for the 2012 season. The addition of Boston is the second New England-based PDL squad set to kick off next year after Worcester Hydra FC was added to the league last week.<\/p>\nWednesday, Dec. 7<\/strong><\/p>\nNick Blake (UConn), Tony Cascio (UConn), Luckymore Mkosana (Dartmouth)\u00a0and Jhojan Obando (Providence)\u00a0were among 52 college seniors invited to next month’s MLS Combine<\/a>, which is scheduled for Jan. 6-10.<\/p>\nThursday, Dec. 8<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Revolution announced their preseason schedule<\/a>, which is set to kick off on Jan. 16 – its earliest start to date.<\/p>\nFriday, Dec. 9<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Washington Post<\/em> reported that U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Juergen Klinsmann was making a cool $2.5 million <\/a>to resurrect the National Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The week that was in New England soccer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/snl_42.jpg?fit=396%2C264&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7734"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7749,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734\/revisions\/7749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.bostonvictorysc.com\/image\/release.jpg\"){kind=link}