Will Parchman
Major League Soccer
Seattle, WA, United States
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Parchman: 5 young players who will impact the 2017 MLS playoff race
MLS is increasingly a young man’s league. For someone like me, I'd generally prefer it to trend even further in that direction, but to ignore its steps in getting this far would be to ignore a blatant reality. The more that MLS academies soak into the ground and saturate the roots ever deepening → Read More
Inside VAR camp: Behind the scenes at Video Review training for referees
Video Review launches in Major League Soccer beginning in Week 22 on Saturday, August 5. Will Parchman spent three days embedded with MLS referees during their most recent Video Assistant Referee training camp organized by the Professional Referee Organization (PRO) in Utah. PARK CITY, Utah – → Read More
Chicago Fire Juniors City teams look to shake up the academy paradigm
Nate Downing was fuming. And five hours is a long time to spend in a car with so much disappointment playing on your mind. In August 2016, Downing had taken over as 03 Boys Pre-Academy coach for the Chicago Fire Juniors City, a Chicago inner-city Under-14 club team directly owned and operated by the → Read More
Parchman: What to expect from Trinidad & Tobago's MLS stars against USA
MLS has long been a safe haven for some of the best soccer players the Caribbean has on offer. Shalrie Joseph (Grenada), Ezra Hendrickson (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) and Atiba Harris (St. Kitts and Nevis) are three of the shiniest examples, each of whom has at least 17,000 career minutes logged → Read More
Will Parchman: Five players who are officially having breakout years
MLS is more of a depth league than many care to acknowledge. It’s easy enough to see the glitzy carriages delivering teams to MLS Cup titles adorned with names like Donovan, Valeri, Lodeiro. But underneath every David Beckham is the purring engine of a Marcelo Sarvas propelling the entire thing → Read More
Parchman: Your 2017 FIFA Under-20 World Cup tournament preview
The biggest youth soccer tournament in the world is nearly here. Whatever the reputation of other youth tournaments, the reality is the FIFA Under-20 World Cup remains the standard for major youth tourneys the world over. It’s the uppermost rung on the youth-only FIFA tournament ladder, and → Read More
Parchman: Orlando City look like the real deal after win at NYCFC
Before we go anywhere on the trail toward Orlando City’s early-season ascendance in 2017, let’s clear one boulder out of our pathway first. Jason Kreis’ Orlando City is not Jason Kreis’ Real Salt Lake. This is one point in particular Kreis is no doubt likely to make relatively clear early in → Read More
Parchman: What makes Alphonso Davies that once-in-a-generation player
On Oct. 3, 2016, a man named Jorge Alvial traveled to Vancouver to see about a player. Alvial himself was no passive bystander, a fact everyone knew by the time he took his seat at BC Place that evening for the Vancouver Whitecaps’ Cascadia Cup clash against the Seattle Sounders. Alvial serves as → Read More
Parchman: 10 MLS academy stars to watch at the Generation adidas Cup
The Generation adidas Cup is here. And as far as showcase events go, there are scarcely any better opportunities to see what a number of MLS academies have baking in the developmental oven. Beginning April 7 and running through the 15th, the Generation adidas Cup mashes together all but three MLS → Read More
Parchman: 10 MLS academy stars to watch at the Generation adidas Cup
The Generation adidas Cup is here. And as far as showcase events go, there are scarcely any better opportunities to see what a number of MLS academies have baking in the developmental oven. Beginning April 7 and running through the 15th, the Generation adidas Cup mashes together all but three MLS → Read More
Parchman: Every MLS club's top academy prospect
The Generation adidas Cup approaches. And as far as an all-in-one stop for scouting the next big thing in MLS goes, it doesn’t get any better. The 2017 GA Cup runs from April 7-15 in Frisco, Texas and serves as a showcase tournament for the league’s top Under-17 teams. To honor the occasion, → Read More
MLS teams' top USL prospects in 2017
Since first cracking open its doors to MLS partnerships in 2013, the USL has become a vitally locked-in piece of the league’s development landscape. And it’s still expanding. To date, 10 teams own and directly operate their own USL teams, granting them unprecedented access to the identification, → Read More
Parchman: Patrick Vieira, NYCFC back to romancing the Bronx in 2017
More often than not, romanticism can’t exist in chaos. I don’t suppose any MLS coach knows this better than NYCFC’s Patrick Vieira. Romanticism in its own way was a response to the crushing squalls of modernity. The 19th century movement clung to the notion that, as German painter Caspar David → Read More
Seattle Sounders redeem themselves with draw after sluggish first half
Never let it be said there’s no MLS drama in March. The Sounders looked ready to settle for their second consecutive 2-1 road loss on Saturday as the game plunged into the twilight of stoppage time. Montreal pressed Seattle’s ability to transition into its defensive positioning in the first → Read More
Seattle Sounders look to put shaky start behind them, stop explosive Impact attack at Olympic Stadium
Your opinion on the Sounders’ season opening performance largely depends on which half of the match we’re talking about. The first 45 minutes of the Sounders’ 2017 title defense season were not exactly ideal. They were out-shot by a 12-2 margin in Houston and found themselves trailing 2-0 into → Read More
Parchman: The road that lies ahead for Orlando City SC without Kaká
Entire popular histories of careers and seasons and games often collapse into a single flashpoint. Zinedine Zidane’s headbutt. Landon Donovan’s goal against Algeria. Hungary’s tactical masterclass in a 6-3 win over England in 1953 on a single afternoon at Wembley Stadium. Kaká's injury will → Read More
Seattle Sounders show promise in second half versus the Houston Dynamo led by magisterial Joevin Jones
This was not quite the start to the title defense the Seattle Sounders had in mind. The Sounders muddled through a viscous first half before dominating the final 45, but they couldn’t turn the tide from an early deluge and ultimately dropped their season opener 2-1 to the Houston Dynamo at BBVA → Read More
New-look Houston Dynamo awaits the Seattle Sounders in 2017 MLS season opener
If it seems like the confetti is still fluttering silently to the turf from the Sounders’ unbelievable 2016, you aren’t crazy. It was only 84 days ago that the Sounders hoisted the ultimate piece of MLS hardware after Roman Torres blasted his fateful penalty past Clint Irwin to win the club’s → Read More
After leaving a legacy at Akron, Portland Timbers coach Caleb Porter aims for more history in Ohio
Ryan Higginbotham was in London to see about a player. Caleb Porter’s Akron men’s soccer program was still in its adolescence when Higginbotham, then Akron’s recruiting coordinator, was sent to England before the 2007 season to follow up on a tip. But as he settled into his seat to watch a → Read More
First round of roster moves poise Sounders FC for an active offseason
Younger and faster. Those two core tenets helped guide Garth Lagerwey, the Sounders FC General Manager & President of Soccer, through the perilous waters of contract renewal this week. Leaning also on ideals like continuity and talent, Seattle exercised 2016 contract options on 11 players and → Read More