LuskinOIC X DTLA Youth Soccer Club Partnership
LuskinOIC is pleased to announce a groundbreaking partnership with the Downtown Los Angeles Soccer Club to support the club’s 450 local youth players on 23 boys and girls teams who range from young kids learning the game of soccer to high school athletes playing at…
Plaschke: U.S. Soccer will keep losing if it keeps ignoring Latina stars who can’t pay to play
Nayelli Barahona rolls a ball to the goalkeeper during a Downtown L.A. Soccer Club practice at the John Leichty Middle School soccer field in Los Angeles on July 26. Barahona, a former teen soccer star from the inner city who fell short of her dreams…
Arrival of Angel City FC ‘big relief’ for local teen player Nayelli Barahona
LA native talks about her soccer journey so far, message from Abby Wambach. If you’re a soccer fan, you were probably excited to hear about the coming arrival of Angel City FC, an NWSL expansion team in Los Angeles. If you’re a women’s soccer fan,…
She’s one girl with family in two places. Playing five sports helped her cope — until the quarantine
Like many girls her age, Dalia Hurtado is having an identity crisis. Unlike most girls her age — to say nothing of most boys — Dalia deals with it by playing five sports: She’s on the varsity football, volleyball and soccer teams at Garfield High…
Downtown Los Angeles Soccer Club — a group of mostly Latina athletes — faces cultural, economic battle in soccer
U.S. women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe has garnered a lot of attention as of late for her strong performances on the field and her strong opinions off it. During the team’s victory speech after the World Cup, she said, “We got white girls, black girls…
Column: Los Angeles’ Latina club is trying to change the face of women’s soccer
It’s a steamy Saturday morning in Norco, and the girls from downtown are flying. April Flores streaks downfield, smoothly passes the ball to Nayelli Barahona, who kicks it over to Michelle Bracamonte, who boots a 20-yard laser past a diving goalkeeper. They leap, they hug,…
South LA teen soccer player calls for more diversity in women’s pro soccer
BOYLE HEIGHTS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Nayelli Barahona, a 15-year-old soccer player with the Downtown Los Angeles Soccer Club, has big goals in life and wants to change the face of soccer. “Both my parents are from El Salvador,” Nayelli said. For Nayelli, seeing the…