{"id":403895,"date":"2026-07-18T23:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/403895\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T23:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:06:15","slug":"oakland-unified-expands-soccer-at-schools-partnership-with-u-s-soccer-across-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/403895\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Unified expands Soccer at Schools partnership with U.S. Soccer across district"},"content":{"rendered":"

OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT is expanding its partnership with the U.S. Soccer Federation<\/a> to grow youth soccer opportunities at Oakland schools.<\/p>\n

The district will work specifically with the Soccer Forward Foundation<\/a>, U.S. Soccer\u2019s community-impact effort that was launched to expand nationwide access with connection to the FIFA World Cup 2026. The partnership aims to expand the Soccer at Schools initiative, which will train educators across the district on how to integrate soccer into the school day starting in the 2026-27 school year.<\/p>\n

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A Northwestern University student and Oakland native, Adam has extensive experience covering sports but is excited to branch into topics such as transportation, urban planning and criminal justice closer to home.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Adam Sutro, Bay City News\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT is expanding its partnership with the U.S. Soccer Federation to grow youth soccer opportunities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[33824,10708,91761,93,4306,162001,84319,162002,162003,143,34026,162004,145,144,3272,8212,162005,1084,162006,162007,162008,67474,145557,162009],"class_list":["post-403895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area-host-committee","tag-bay-fc","tag-denise-saddler","tag-featured","tag-featured-news","tag-fifa-arena","tag-fifa-world-cup-2026","tag-lex-chalat","tag-montera-middle-school","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-athletic-league","tag-oakland-genesis","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-unified-school-district","tag-ousd","tag-physical-education","tag-san-jose-earthquakes","tag-soccer-at-schools","tag-soccer-forward-foundation","tag-soccer-without-borders","tag-u-s-soccer","tag-youth-soccer","tag-zaileen-janmohammed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}