Over 50 players from all over Arizona attended a training session at Grande Sports Academy on Friday night for a potential chance to enter the ranks of the Real Salt Lake Arizona Academy.
Academy coaches led players through a few drills before playing games. Below are some pictures from the training session. Click on one [...]
Continue Reading →Real Salt Lake will give the Beehive State’s best young talent the chance to showcase their skills – and potentially enter the ranks of the RSL youth development program – on May 24-25, when it will host tryouts for its RSL-Arizona Academy U-16 and U-18 teams. The tryouts will be held at [...]
Continue Reading →On Thursday night (5/9/13), coaches divided up the U18 and U16 teams into a mini-round-robin-tournament. On the U18 side Elijah Evans, Jonathan Stadler, Brandon Johnston, Danny Gavin, Luis Barraza, Jose “Bean” Vasquez, Diego Silva and Jose Hernandez easily won without any extra time or PK’s needed in their final game.
On the [...]
Continue Reading →Every Friday morning the coaches & staff play a “friendly” soccer game against some of the Academy players who have school off.
Assistant Coach Tony Bruce wrote the recap below. Enjoy!
Wapo’s Vs Tronkinho’s
Up 4-1 at halftime, it looked like the Fabulous Wapo’s 350 game winning streak might be in jeopardy, [...]
Continue Reading →If you have ever had a chance to check out one of our weekday training sessions, you would know how hard goalkeeper coach Ignacio “Nacho” Hernandez works the ‘keepers. To give the ‘keepers the love the deserve here is a picture gallery dedicated to the hard work they put in every single day. Click on [...]
Continue Reading →Below are some pictures from the training session Real Salt Lake U18′s and U16′s had on Thursday night.
For a ‘keepers only gallery from Thursday click here. Click on one picture and a slider gallery will form.
Continue Reading →Down here at Grande Sports Academy we always have weekend games. But for the first time in over a few months there are no games this weekend and our players deserve a much needed break. Everyone enjoy the weekend and have a wonderful Mother’s Day on Sunday!
We will be having an [...]
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Academy Debut
Te Wihongi, from New Zealand, made his Academy start for Real Salt Lake when he was named to the starting XI vs [...]
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