FC Alliance has announced that 53 different players committed to play college soccer this spring.  35 of those players, a mix of juniors and seniors, have accepted offers from NCAA Division 1 teams.  Sending this many kids into a single college sport is unprecedented for a community this size.  In fact, according to numbers compiled by Rivals.com, FC Alliance produced more division one college soccer players this year than 25 entire states produced in football (the American version).  In fact, 14 of those state states combined didn’t add up to the FC Alliance total.  Even more impressive is the notion that the junior class is far from done. Click for story

The FC Alliance Summer League has officially announced its days and times.  Games will be played on Tuesday nights 5:30-8:30PM at the US Cellular Soccer Complex and The Field House at Amherst.  The growing league had nearly 500 participants last year, and the club hopes to grow it even more this year.  The usually fast paced and fun games are played in the 6v6 format.  Every team gets unique tee shirts for jerseys, and friendly rivalries often develop.  Click here for details

The news has to be surprising to the California soccer community.  Dean Ward, an assistant coach at NCAA Division 1 Loyola Marymount University and a Director of Player Development for Sand and Surf Soccer Club, has officially accepted a full-time position with FC Alliance.  The native of Birmingham, England will say goodbye to the Pacific Ocean at the end of the month and make his way to Knoxville.  He brings a wealth of experience and success at many different levels to the club.  Ward has focused on both club and college soccer throughout his career.  Prior to coaching at Loyola Marymount, he was the head women’s coach of Marymount College of the NAIA.  In addition to coaching for FC Alliance, Ward will also be training forwards for the Tennessee Lady Vols.  Click here for more on FC Alliance’s major hire

All FC Alliance tryouts will be held at the US Cellular Soccer Complex.

U8-U10 begin Monday, May 21       
U11-U12 begin Wednesday, May 23
U13-U15 begin Tuesday, June 5    
U16-U18 begin Thursday, June 7

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Coach Shane Moore felt confident his 00 Girls Black could have some success playing up at the annual East Ridge Spring Fling.  What he didn’t necessarily expect was the type of success they would have.  In four games at the Chattanooga area event, his team ripped through the competition, scoring a combined seventeen goals while giving up only two.  The championship game was the final coup of the older age group, as Moore’s team stormed to a 4-0 halftime lead over the host East Ridge Express team, and then cruised to a 5-1 win.

When it comes to being a part of an FC Alliance team, it’s not always about soccer.  The 01 Boys Black 1 took this to heart and participated in the 2012 Knoxville Walk to Cure Diabetes.  Along the way, they raised an astounding $3000 to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.  To take part in the event, the team had to put soccer cleats aside for the day and lace up their sneakers instead.  The five kilometer event was based out of the World’s Fair Park in downtown Knoxville, and the boys always seemed to be out in front.  The team even recruited several U12 players to participate, making it a great showing for the club.  Click here

There aren’t many places in the United States you can go to see the true passion of soccer on full display.  Normally, to see that, you have to travel overseas to countries like England, Brazil and the scores of other soccer-crazed nations around the globe.  However, there is one place you can go to get a sampling of soccer at it’s purest: your neighborhood U9 soccer game.  For young players, especially those barely at the midway point of elementary school, the game means everything.  Rarely does any other level offer a glimpse of players driven by the pure love of the game.  This couldn’t be more accurate with FC Alliance’s 03 Boys Black, who recently captured the U9 Division of the Alliance Premier Cup.  Led by Coach John Giles, they won four games en route to the championship.  Click here

The 95 Girls Black are no strangers to success.  The defending state champions and regional powerhouse have secured yet another honor.  This time, it is the Region Premier League title.  The FC Alliance squad, coached by Josh Gray, played up to the U18 division due to a lack of U17 teams, although they were technically competing for the U17 title.  In eight games, they never lost, grabbing six wins and two ties.  Five of those wins came against U18 teams, an impressive feat considering it is the Premier League.  Click for more  

As Lebron James recently stated, there is no greater honor in sports than representing your country in international competition.  It is an honor bestowed on only a few, specifically those among the best their country has to offer.  Add FC Alliance’s Will Little to that list.  The creative midfielder will be playing for the Region 3 ODP team in Mexico next week in an international competition.  Little plays for Coach Paulo Neto’s 98 Boys Black, the defending Tennessee state champions. 

It has been a long journey for the FC Alliance 94 Boys Black.  From their humble beginnings as a local U8 team called Little Brazil, to a team loaded with major college prospects, one thing has stayed consistent: success.  The team has won five state championships.  They’ve dominated the Region 3 Premier League.  They’ve won the top brackets of high level tournaments such as the Mead Cup, Atlanta Cup and Jefferson Cup.  Now, with a history of acheivement in their wake, the team has reached the ultimate level of success: sending many of their players to college soccer.  Click for more

It was close, but a win is a win.  The 96 Girls Black have won the Region 3 Central Premier League.  The championship was determined by a single goal in a tiebreaker against Tennessee rival TNFC Impact.  The two teams both ran roughshod through the league, but in a classic clash of the titans they tied each other 3-3.  The difference between the two in the standings?  FC Alliance outscored their opponents by 20 goals, while TNFC outscored theirs by a mere 19.  Click for more