IU ends spring with 2-0 victory against Mexico U-20 team
The Hoosiers scored twice on four shots-on-goal and dominated physically on defense to shut out the U-20 Mexican Youth National Team 2-0.
The Hoosiers scored twice on four shots-on-goal and dominated physically on defense to shut out the U-20 Mexican Youth National Team 2-0.
The men’s soccer team will end its six-game spring season with some international flavor as it welcomes the Under-20 Mexican Youth National Team for a 7 p.m. scrimmage.
If the trends of the spring season continue, the men’s soccer game Saturday would need to go beyond penalty kicks to settle.
The IU men’s soccer team remained undefeated for the spring Wednesday, though not in the manner it would have liked. Twenty-two shots converted to just one goal for the Hoosiers, who went to 1-0-2 during the spring season with a 1-1 tie in two overtime periods against IU-Purdue University Indianapolis.
The men’s soccer team has started slow in the first halves and ended strong in the second in each game this spring.
Just as they had done in a 2-1 victory against Louisville two weeks ago, the Hoosiers played a slow first half and surrendered a goal before responding in the second, tying Cincinnati 1-1 on Friday.
New IU men’s soccer coach Todd Yeagley couldn’t be happier being back at his alma mater. “Every day, I kind of step back from what I’m doing and say, ‘I have the best job in college soccer,’” he said. “I’m very fortunate.” And if the beginning of the spring season is any indicator, the new era of Hoosier soccer is progressing well.
Rain poured onto Yeagley Field at Bill Armstrong Stadium as Todd Yeagley made his debut as IU men’s soccer coach Sunday.
After years on the sidelines learning from his father’s head coaching techniques, new IU coach Todd Yeagley will take the field for the first time as the leader of one of the nation’s premier soccer programs.
Todd Yeagley is his father’s son – and that’s a problem for some IU fans. The son of IU legend Jerry Yeagley took the reins of the IU men’s soccer program under questionable circumstances, if you ask some members of Hoosier nation. A commenter on the IDS Web site claimed that the younger Yeagley was hired “not for experience or talent, but his name and thanks to Daddy.”
Click here to watch members of the IU 2010 soccer class showing off their skills.
IU soccer has a new coach and a new class but the same game plan: Win championships. Joining the ranks of over 400 members of the IU men’s soccer family is the 2010 class: Kerel Bradford, Ryan Bristol, Jacob Bushue, Nikita Kotlov, Dylan Lax, Matt McKain, Harrison Petts, Taylor Reeves and Blake Wise. “This is a very talented group that I feel can make a positive impact in the program,” IU coach Todd Yeagley said. “The 2010 class will certainly give us a big boost moving forward.”
For more than 30 years, Jerry Yeagley led the IU soccer program. Six years after his retirement, son Todd has taken over the team.
Former IU soccer players Eric Alexander and Ofori Sarkodie were selected No. 44 and No. 52, respectively, in the 2010 Major League Soccer SuperDraft on Thursday in Philadelphia.
Jerry Yeagley: "I could have done the Bobby Knight thing and just anointed him and made him the coach. I didn’t do that. I kept my word to Coach Freitag."
IDS men's soccer beat reporter Stephanie Kuzydym talked with Athletics Director Fred Glass about the recent hire of Todd Yeagley as the team's new head coach.
Athletics Director Fred Glass announced Friday that Todd Yeagley, son of IU soccer's most successful coach Jerry Yeagley, will be the program's next head coach.
Two weeks after IU Athletics announced Freitag’s contract would not be renewed, the throne of the seven-star program remains empty. But it's close to being filled.
Seniors Eric Alexander and Ofori Sarkodie will not be in Bloomington when students begin classes Jan. 11. Instead, the two will join 62 other college seniors Jan. 8-12 to be evaluated at the 2010 adidas Major League Soccer Combine in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Mike Freitag's statement about IU Vice President and Athletics Director Fred Glass' decision not to renew Freitag's contract, which expires Dec. 31, 2009. Read the entire transcript here.Keep checking the Hoosier Hype sports blog for developments on the search for the new men's soccer coach.