{"id":34636,"date":"2025-07-30T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/34636\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:36:09","slug":"get-to-know-u-s-soccers-extended-national-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/34636\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to know U.S. Soccer\u2019s Extended National Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve heard of the U.S. Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s National Teams, but did you know that U.S. Soccer has nine extended national teams?\u00a0They include beach, futsal, cerebral palsy, deaf and power soccer. Stuart Sharp, Head of Extended National Teams at U.S. Soccer, joins this week\u2019s show to provide a comprehensive overview of the program, including the cerebral palsy team he also manages, world rankings, major competitions and how to get more involved.<\/p>\n

Later, our hosts enjoy a conversation with the technical director behind\u00a0one of these Extended National Teams (45:05). Morgan Church, head coach of the U.S.women\u2019s beach soccer national team, details the sport\u2019s unique rules, the Acapulco Cup and where to sign the petition to start a Women\u2019s World Cup for beach soccer. <\/p>\n

Become a U.S. Soccer Insider to go into greater detail with our two guests as they discuss tactics, how players qualify for the team and where you can go to play beach soccer.<\/p>\n

Click here to learn how you can support U.S. Soccer\u2019s ENTs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watch the video on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

Hosts: David Gass, Meghan Klingenberg<\/p>\n

Guests: Stuart Sharp, Head of Extended National Teams at U.S. Soccer & Morgan Church, head coach of U.S. women’s beach soccer national team<\/p>\n

Producer: Brad Fosler<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The U.S. Soccer Podcast is a production from U.S. Soccer hosted by David Gass, Meghan Klingenberg and Alejandro Bedoya. The podcast tells stories in service to soccer and the people who live it, amplifying player voices and the stories behind the game. Episodes drop weekly on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n

To learn more, visit ussoccer.org\/podcast<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You\u2019ve heard of the U.S. Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s National Teams, but did you know that U.S. Soccer has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-34636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}