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Real Salt Lake AZ Academy Staff Coaches and Grande Sports World staff Michael Munoz and Greg Vanney will be in Sarasota Florida for the next week at the Development Academy Showcase. Vanney and Munoz will be scouting players for US Soccer and promoting Grande Sports World. Vanney will also be coaching with US Soccer using EA Sports Interactive Training.

Here is the United States Men’s National Team roster for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa:

Goalkeepers (3): Tim Howard, Brad Guzan, Marcus Hahnemann.

Defenders (7): Carlos Bocanegra, Jonathan Bornstein, Steve Cherundolo, Jay DeMerit, Clarence Goodson, Oguchi Onyewu, Jonathan Spector.

Midfielders (8): DaMarcus Beasley, Michael Bradley, Ricardo Clark, Landon Donovan, Maurice Edu, Benny Feilhaber, Stuart Holden, José Francisco Torres.

Forwards (5): Jozy Altidore, Edson Buddle, Clint Dempsey, Robbie Findley, Herculez Gomez.

Juergen Sommer, former US International Goalkeeper and Real Salt Lake Academy GK Coach with Grande Sports World, has been chosen by US Soccer to participate in a SportsUnited coaches Envoy to the Ivory Coast during this time. This program is run by the US State Department in a effort to represent the United States, US Soccer and the USA’s bid for the World Cup in 2018/22.

J. Speeshock

T. Wilson

T. Hebert

J. Zabasajja

A. Panduro

M. Valdez

S. Carillo

R. Uriarte

B. Bates

A. Rivera

L. Rico

J. Navarro

C. Nagy

P. Gibson

N. Semintendi

E. Venegas

J. Lopez

O. Arroyo

B. Hernandez

D. Gavin

S. Rizo

D. Kelly

A. Martinez

L. Manta

T. Angell

T. Narkhede

M. Salazar

I. Juarez

D. Nevarez

B. Marquez

Real Salt Lake Arizona U18 Player Pool

M. Bersano

D. Foy

P. Pray

E. Zavaleta

N. Miller

C. Clay

J. Brock

A. Herrera

C. Wadas

D. Molina

C. Phillips

M. Costello

F. Calderon

M. Romero

E. Jasso

O. Ortega

E. Cervantes

A. Sanchez

R. Velasco

D. Reyes

D. Toia

D. Olivas

A. Elzaharna

P. Galan

I. Aceves

B. Bates

B. Suarez

B. Hoyt

Major League Soccer Champions Real Salt Lake Staff Coaches Robin Fraser, Miles Joseph and Goalkeeper Coach Jeff Cassar will be attending the May 23rd US Soccer Player Evaluation at Grande Sports World.
Assistant coach Robin Fraser on the importance of the Real Salt Lake Academy…
“We’re viewing this as a great opportunity to assess an outstanding group of young Arizona players who have the qualities and desire to step into our first team one day. We believe that the RSL Academy program will set the standard for elite player development in this country and are excited about what this means for the future of the RSL club.”
They will be accompanying US Soccer Technical Advisor’s and U.S Youth National Team Scouts Hugo Perez and Rene Miramontes.

Leading up to this event we will be hosting one more open session and two invitational sessions.

Below you will find an updated calendar:

Open Session:May 18th at Grande Sports World:

U18s 5:00pm-6:30pm

U16’s 6:30pm-8:00pm

Invitational Session: May 20th at Grand Canyon University

U18’s 6:00pm-7:30pm

U16’s 7:30-9:00pm

Invitational Session: May 22 at Grande Sports World TBD

US Soccer/RSL Player Evaluation May 23 at Grande Sports World:

U18’s 10:00am-11:30am

U16’s 12:00pm-1:30pm

We are very pleased to announce that Real Salt Lake Arizona is continuing to make positive strides toward admittance into the US Soccer Development Academy for 2010. To prepare for the final piece of this process, RSLAZ will be conducting open and invitational training sessions beginning May 12 and ending with the final invitational session on May 23^rd. This final session will be attended and evaluated by US Soccer technical representatives and youth national team scouts Rene Miramontes and Hugo Perez. This final evaluation is a follow-up to our very successful March 10 session/visit by US Soccer. These sessions will be open to birth years 92 (non-college bound), 93, 94 and the 95 age groups. Please review the calendar below for dates, times and locations for each session.

In addition to the evaluation session with US Soccer, Real Salt Lake AZ is using these open and invitational sessions to begin the selection process to find Arizona’s finest players interested in competing in the 2010 MLS/Sum Cup Championships July 24-28 in Houston, Texas. This event will be hosted in conjunction with this year’s Major League Soccer All-Star game versus Manchester United. The MLS/SUM Cup is a U17 competition for Major League Soccer Academy programs only, with the winner representing Major League Soccer and the United States in the World Club Championships in Madrid, Spain. Real Salt Lake will field one team made up of the top players from its programs in Utah, Arizona and Florida. This will be the 3^rd summer that Arizona players will represent Real Salt Lake having won the event in 2008 and finishing 4^th in 2009.

If you are interested in being considered for this program please contact us through one of the following channels:

• Log onto www.grandesports.com and register on the Real Salt Lake Academy page
• Email Michael Munoz at mmunoz@grandesports.com
• Call Michael Munoz at 510-717-3155

We have attached additional information on RSLAZ, US Soccer Development Academy and Grande Sports World for you to review. We look forward to seeing you all out on the field very soon. Best of luck to all players still competing in the final weekend of State Cup!

Real Salt Lake Arizona Academy

May Calendar:

Players should wear white t-shirts, dark shorts, white socks to training.

GCU = Grand Canyon University; GSW – Grande Sports World