Cal, UCLA 1st opponents on IU men's soccer schedule
The men’s soccer team will face California on Friday and play UCLA Sunday at Bill Armstrong Stadium in the Adidas/IU Credit Union Classic.
The men’s soccer team will face California on Friday and play UCLA Sunday at Bill Armstrong Stadium in the Adidas/IU Credit Union Classic.
The IU men's soccer team opens against Duke at 8:10 p.m. Friday. The team will remain in Ft. Wayne for the weekend to play Denver at noon Sunday to wrap up the preseason.
Senior midfielder Daniel Kelly netted the Hoosiers’ lone goal with less than six minutes to play as IU lost to Xavier 2-1 in the their first exhibition game of the season.
Senior midfielder Daniel Kelly netted the Hoosiers’ lone goal with less than six minutes to play and narrowly avoided being shut out Sunday at Bill Armstrong Stadium. IU fell to Xavier, 2-1, in the their first exhibition game of the season.
But it was in the 116th minute, that Spain’s Andres Iniesta slammed home a bouncing ball into the far corner and gave Spain their first ever World Cup Championship with a 1-0 win over the Netherlands.
With the American sports conscience fixated on South Africa and the 2010 World Cup for the last month, much talk has focused on how the U.S. team can improve upon its quarterfinal finish when the event moves to Brazil in 2014. And former IU standout and current member of the New England Revolution Kevin Alston hopes he’ll occupy a roster spot on the American team should it qualify for the 2014 World Cup.
After spending two years at Wake Forest, the former 2007 Indianapolis Player of the Year will transfer back to his home state to play for the Hoosiers.
And after years of always being the underdog in World Cup matches, the U.S. team faces unfamiliar territory as it goes into this game as the favorite.
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.”