Portland (OR) - The Oregon Premier League is proud to annouce four players identified during a recent OPL-hosted id2 camp have been invited into the national id2 camp. Jonah Book (Westside Metros), Tyler Chung (Westside Metros), Nick Evans (Eastside United FC), and Connor Ford (Lake Oswego SC) will participate in the November camp, after being nominated by their clubs to participate the recent OPL-hosted id2 camp at the Tualatin Hills Rec Center. The four players were selected out of a group of approximately 40 boys born in 1998 and 1999, all nominees from their clubs.
US Club Soccer will host this id2 Program Training Camp Nov. 10-13, 2011, at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas. The camp is exclusively for the ’98 boys, with a camp for the ’99s to be held at a date and time still to be determined next spring. Over the course of the four-day camp, the boys will participate in training sessions and games run by some of the best soccer coaches in the nation, playing and competing with some of the nation’s best players in their age group. Tge US National Team staff will be on hand to observe the sessions and games, evaluating players for future inclusion in Youth National Team camps. The players will also hear a number of presentations and guest lectures from National Team staff and current and former professional players. Participation in the camp is free, as Nike and US Club Soccer pay room and board, as well as providing training gear the players, and the OPL is assisting with plane fares for the boys to travel to Texas.
About US Club Soccer/id2:
Established in 2004, US Club Soccer’s id2 National Identification and Development Program provides an opportunity for the country’s elite youth soccer players to be identified and developed, while also being scouted for inclusion in U.S. Soccer’s National Team programs.
A comprehensive national scouting and recommendation program is used to form a player pool from which top players are invited to attend an id2 Program Training Camp.
There is no cost to the player to be scouted or recommended for the id2Program. Additionally, the id2 Program is open to all players regardless of U.S. Soccer affiliation, or lack thereof.
