The Virginia Youth Soccer Association (VYSA) is the official youth soccer organization in Virginia. The VYSA runs the annual Virginia State Cup Championships, a part of the US Youth Soccer Association National Championship Series. State Champions at various ages between 10 and 19 have been crowned since at least 1975.
Local team affiliates include D.C. United, Richmond Kickers, Virginia Beach Mariners, and Northern Virginia Royals.
Read more about Virginia Youth Soccer Association: Highlighted Teams, Member List
Famous quotes containing the words youth, soccer and/or association:
“Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown,
Fair Science frown’d not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy mark’d him for her own.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
“If we were doing this in the Falklands they would love it. It’s part of our heritage. The British have always been fighting wars.”
—British soccer fan. quoted in Independent (London, Dec. 23, 1988)
“It is not merely the likeness which is precious ... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing ... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think—and it is not at all monstrous in me to say ... that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist’s work ever produced.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)