The San Jose Earthquakes will field a fully affiliated U-14/15 developmental team this fall in the Norcal Regional Academy League (RAL). The team will hold open tryouts to identify the most talented and motivated players for this professional developmental opportunity. This is the first team outside of the U.S. Soccer Federation Development Academy to be fielded by the MLS club. The team's purpose will be to groom the most motivated and talented players for promotion to the San Jose Earthquakes U-16 Academy team. For the upcoming 2011 Fall season the team will develop players born in 1997 and 1998.

 

U-15 Academy open tryouts sessions will be held in June and July, both in San Jose and Danville, for players wishing to tryout. San Jose will hold sessions on June 19th, 29th and July 9th, 16th and 17th. All sessions are 10a-12p except June 29th which is 6-8p.  

 

South Bay session will be at Lincoln High School, San Jose - 555 Dana Ave, San Jose CA 95126 *Subject to change. Danville sessions TBD. For more information, please visit us on our Facebook site CLICK HERE or email us at admin@earthquakesacademy.com

 

Any interested player should download and fill out a player inventory form CLICK HERE or register online CLICK HERE

 

"The introduction of the U-14/15 Academy will allow us to extend the San Jose Earthquakes curriculum and training methods into younger age categories and allow us to offer consistent, quality training. We will be able to develop players with better understanding of the game for our Academy program," said Fred Wilson, San Jose Earthquakes Academy Director. "Young players improve more rapidly by training more frequently and playing fewer, but higher quality, games. The U-14/15 Academy team offers the San Jose Earthquakes the opportunity to accelerate the development of a group of selected, very young, high quality players and expand their opportunities to one day play for the US National team, our first team or top college programs."

 

The San Jose Earthquakes will be subsidizing player uniform/gear with major support from adidas, enabling us to reduce player fees. We will register in the U-15 age group to play in a 10-month season beginning in September and ending in June. The U-16 and U-18 Academy teams will also play their seasons during the same 10-month period. Players in the RAL are registered through US Club Soccer. 

This Labor Day weekend, The San Jose Earthquakes will be sending it's top 96/97/98 academy players to the Starfire Labor Day Academy Cup. This tournament will take place in Tacoma, WA and will feature MLS Academy members Seatlle Sounders (Host), Portland Timbers and the Vancouver Whitecaps. 

 

"This is just one of several opportunities we plan to take as we enhance the footprint of our youth academy program" said Director Fred Wilson. "This is an exciting event for our program, gives us a chance to play against other MLS Academies and make our program so much more valuable. It provides our youth academy players opportunites that are just not offered by other academies or club teams."

 

San Jose Earthquakes U14/15 Team tentative schedule:

• September 3^rd: Sounders FC vs. San Jose Earthquakes
• September 4^th: Vancouver Whitecaps vs. San Jose Earthquakes
• September 5^th: San Jose Earthquakes vs. Portland Timbers         

All games to be played at the incredible Starfire Sports Stadium

             

Here is a link to the website-- this will provide you with tournament dates and other information:
http://www.starfireacademycup.com

As you may have heard, the Surf Cup selection committee has invited the San Jose Earthquakes U-14/15 Academy team to compete in the U-14 flight of Surf Cup XXXI. This is not only the highest ranked youth tournament in the United States but an experience unlike any other in youth soccer. The elite field is chosen from hundreds of applications and this year's U-14 flight is one of the strongest ever. Teams in our flight will be participating from Cal North, Cal South, Washington, Virginia, Florida and Illinois: Fellow MLS Academy member L.A. Galaxy will be represented in our bracket as well.

 
Here is a link to the website-- this will provide you with tournament dates and other information:
http://www.surfcup.com