The Sporting Kansas City Academy U-18s were crowned U.S. Youth Futsal national champions on Monday, defeating Pittsburgh-based Ambassadors 1999 by a 6-2 scoreline in the title game at New Century Fieldhouse in New Century, Kansas.
The U.S. Youth Futsal National Championships featured 147 teams from across the country playing for titles at U-9 through U-18 levels at locations across Johnson County, Kansas. The Sporting KC Academy was represented not only by the U-18s, but the U-12s, U-13s and U-14s — each of which played up an age group and finished national runners-up.
The U-18s topped FutsalRVA (Virginia) on Friday and BRUSFA Five Guys (Illinois) on Saturday before falling to Ambassadors 1999 in Sunday’s group stage finale. Coach Jon Parry’s team responded with a 6-5 semifinal win Sunday night over Grand Rapids ABK (Michigan), setting up a rematch against Ambassadors in Monday’s national championship.
The Sporting KC U-14s were split into Argyle and Indigo squads in the U-15 age group. Argyle finished with a 3-0 record in Pool A, while Indigo went 2-1 in Pool B to ensure placement in the semifinals for both teams. Argyle snuck past Sporting Blue Valley with a 1-0 victory, while Indigo lost 4-3 to Ginga Academy (Ohio). Argyle suffered a similar fate in the championship match as Ginga Academy claimed the title with a 6-4 win.
The U-13s cruised to the U-14 title game, outscoring opponents 25-3 in the group stage before grinding out a 1-0 triumph against Roadrunners SC (Illinois) in the semifinals. However, Grand Rapids Academy (Michigan) denied Sporting KC the national championship with a 4-2 win Monday morning at New Century Fieldhouse.
The U-12s also fell just short of a national championship, falling 3-2 to AUSC Select (Illinois) in Monday’s final. Sporting KC finished pool play in the U-13 age group with a 2-0-1 record — tying AUSC Select in the first of two battles between the teams — before handling ESI 2004 (Kansas) 5-3 in Sunday’s semifinal.
Tournament results for Sporting KC Academy teams can be found below. Click here for game-by-game scores and tournament brackets.
SKC Academy results at 2017 U.S. Youth Futsal National Championships
<strong>Team</strong> |
<strong>W-L-T</strong> |
<strong>GF</strong> |
<strong>GA</strong> |
<strong>GD</strong> |
U-12<br><em>U-13 National runners-up</em> |
3-1-1 |
23 |
12 |
+11 |
U-13<br><em>U-14 National runners-up</em> |
4-1-0 |
28 |
7 |
+21 |
U-14 Indigo<br><em>U-15 National semifinalists</em> |
2-2-0 |
22 |
12 |
+10 |
U-14 Argyle<br><em>U-15 National runners-up</em> |
4-1-0 |
26 |
17 |
+9 |
U-18<br><strong><em>National champions</em></strong> |
4-1-0 |
31 |
20 |
+11 |
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