- Dallas Texans Soccer Club
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Dallas Texans Soccer Club Full name Dallas Texans Soccer Club Nickname(s) The Texans Founded 1993 by Hassan Nazari Ground Ross Stewart Soccer Complex League U.S. Soccer Development Academy Website Club home page Dallas Texans Soccer Club is one of the top youth soccer clubs in the United States. Founded in 1993 by Hassan Nazari, the club has produced many players who have played professionally at various levels in the U.S. and overseas, including US National Team Star Clint Dempsey. In the short time since the Texans were founded, its teams have won virtually every major tournament in the United States including state and regional titles and more than eleven USYSA National Championships. Additionally, the club has experienced great success in some of the most prestigious tournaments in Europe, such as the Gothia Cup, and the Texans are the only American club to have won the prestigious Dallas Cup Supergroup in the last 25 years.
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History
The club was founded by the Iranian American former professional player Hassan Nazari in 1993 and based in the populous Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. In 2007, the club opened the Ross Stewart Soccer Complex [1] as their home base of operations. The complex contains six full-sized, lighted fields, a clubhouse, as well as the recently completed Embrey Family Training Center. [2] The 15,000-player club made history in 2008 by winning four national championships and the prestigious Manchester United Premier Cup U.S. finals trophy. Later that year, the Texans joined the prestigious USSF Development Academy as part of the Texas Division, and sent their U-18 all the way to the Finals in their first year. In addition to the Development Academy and Select teams, the Texans are very active in the Pre-Select ages, which the club calls their Youth Academy. The Youth Academy teams are divided into 4 age divisions - Under 10, Under 9, Under 8 and Under 7. [3] The club recently announced the addition of a Residency Program, which will open up this fall.[4] The Dallas Texans are a Nike Premier Club, the host club of the Dallas Cup and are also the only American club to have a partnership with Manchester United. In 2011, the Texans hosted the first ever Dallas International Girls Cup, which in its first year featured more foreign teams than any other girls tournament in the United States.
Partnership With Manchester United
In 2009 the Dallas Texans teamed up with Manchester United to offer their players the chance of a lifetime – to train with Manchester United at its world class Carrington training centre. Each year, the club sends a group of players, accompanied by Dallas Texans coaches, to train with United's youth teams, experience their facilities and share the latest coaching techniques. In addition, every summer coaches from Manchester United travel to Dallas to help identify players and offer their advice and expertise in the youth team’s coaching sessions. Brian McClair, Director of the Manchester United Academy said, “This is a great opportunity for the Dallas Texans. We are looking forward to welcoming them to Manchester and putting them through their paces.” Hassan Nazari, Founder and Technical Director of the Dallas Texans, agrees: “Soccer is a growing sport in America, and it is a great honor to learn from the best. We appreciate Manchester United’s expertise in helping our players develop into not only great soccer players, but great young men and women." Manchester United is considered the most popular professional soccer club in the world, with more than 330 million supporters. The legendary club has won 17 English Premier League titles, 11 FA Cup trophies and two European Championships.
Another perk from the partnership saw the prestigious Manchester United Soccer Schools come to Dallas for the first time, hosted by the Texans at their Ross Stewart Soccer Complex in 2010. The camp is coming back in 2011, and in addition to Dallas, the camp will be hosted by the Texans affiliates in Tulsa, Austin and Houston, throughout the summer.
Notable alumni
Senior internationals in boldface.
Gregory Garza- Imad Baba
- Clint Dempsey
- Nick Garcia
- Jay Needham
- Lee Nguyen
Ramón Núñez
Bruno Guarda- Hunter Freeman
- Jose Burciaga Jr.
- Jordan Stone
- Daniel Hernández
Alejandro Moreno- Omar Gonzalez
- Jared Jeffrey
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Hirofumi Moriyasu - Conor Doyle
- Brek Shea
- Andre Akpan
- Stephen McCarthy
- Anthony Ampaipitakwong
- Shea Salinas
Affiliation Program
In 2007, the Dallas Texans began affiliating with other clubs around the country. Soon thereafter, they expanded into Canada, and in 2010 they added a division in Ghana. The affiliate clubs are all have an independent Board and Coaching Staff, but take the Texans name and kit. Additionally, these clubs all adhere to the Texans Philosophy, coaching methods, administrative guidelines and more, to the benefit of all of the clubs in the organization, and their coaches, players, parents, sponsors and other partners. To date, the Texans have 9 divisions outside of Dallas.
Texans Divisions:
- Aggieland
- Austin
- Florida
- Ghana
- Houston
- San Antonio
- San Antonio West
- Ottawa South United
- Tulsa
References
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- Soccer clubs in Dallas, Texas
- Soccer clubs in the United States
- Organizations established in 1993
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