Features – Soccer Coaches and Players Portfolios and News (SCPPNews)
SCPPNews is the comprehensive Colorado Soccer News and Talent Showcase Platform. It focuses exclusively on every Colorado soccer city or corner, including Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Boulder, and Aurora. The platform serves every level, from youth recreational to professional. The features of SCPPNews cover a “cab to lion” approach to player identification, coaching performance analyzation, statistics, and news.
1. SCPPNews Talent Passport™ & Technical Expertise
Colorado soccer news provides detailed information about every league, game, coach, and player. Through this essential news, SCPPNews generates a professional Talent Passport™.
Such a passport includes, but is not limited to:
- Highlight news, videos, in-depth analyzation, and verified statistics.
- Coach performance, student-athlete academic performance, player performance, and recommendations.
All these components are proposed and written by SCPPNews journalists or technicians.
Defining SCPPNews Experts
Journalists and technicians are highly credible. Technicians are experienced coaches with at least five years of professional soccer playing experience and at least ten years of coaching experience across all levels. Their high credentials and extensive experience allow for expert analyzation, statistics, feedback, and targeted suggestions. Their reading of the game, coach, and players will significantly boost the level of soccer in Colorado.
SCPPNews Expert Qualifications
Journalists and technicians hold minimum qualifications. These include a Master’s or/and Coaching Education Licenses from the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) or/and the United Soccer Coaches Association. If a contributor is a technician, they must also meet the minimum professional playing and coaching experience requirements.
2. Journalism and Technician Volunteer Opportunities
SCPPNews is powered entirely by community volunteering. Volunteers write soccer articles or serve as technicians to analyze a club, game, coach, or player. This commitment keeps every tool open and continually expanding for the growth of Colorado soccer and soccer news. SCPPNews always invites journalism students starting from associate level and higher to volunteer. Volunteers write articles, analyze a game, and report on a coach or player. All reports must strictly focus on soccer subjects. Technicians require a minimum of a Master’s degree and a United States Soccer Federation (USSF) license (minimum C license) or a United Soccer Coaches Association (USC) diploma (minimum National Diploma). Interested individuals will find SCPPNews fun and community engaging.
3. SCPPNews and the Coach-Player Idea Lab
The SCPPNews will post news about Coaches and players or student-athletes of all levels. This news can include performance analyzation, statistics, feedback, and suggestions to enhance performance. News may also cover contract signing or breaching. Technicians with high credentials can rank these events. SCPPNews also interviews coaches or players for added insight.
SCPPNews allows any coach or player of any level to build verified profiles and share licenses or experience. They can publish complete training sessions, tactics, and soccer plans in the Coach Idea Lab. Those interested must contact the Director of Communication, news and portfolios build-up.
4. SCPPNews Talent Map and Centralized Tryout Calendar
- SCPPNews Talent Map: The interactive SCPPNews Talent Map in Colorado allows instant filtering of coaches and players. Filters include age, position, club, school, college, graduation year, and commitment status.
- Centralized Tryout Calendar: SCPPNews shares every tryout in the state as a news article. This allows clubs calling for a tryout to schedule the event. Players can click and redirect to the club website to apply directly with the club calling for a tryout.
Legal and Policy Statement on Recruitment
Soccer Coaches and Players Portfolios and News (SCPPNews) will be forever a Colorado soccer news platform. SCPPNews will never interfere with any coach-player registration, contract signing or breaching, or any tryout. The platform showcases the event in a news article to the public with transparent and 100% accuracy. SCPPNews brings the opportunity as a news article. Coaches or players determine their decision. SCPPNews will never call or send any email calling for fees.
5. SCPPNews Pipeline Tracking and Community Engagement
- SCPPNew Pipeline Tracker: Publicly shares every Colorado student-athlete who earns a college soccer roster spot, professional contract, or U.S. National Team call-up.
- SCPPNews Technician Rankings: Monthly ranking covers high school (1A–5A), youth clubs, collegiate programs of any division, amateur, and professional clubs, including players and coaches. This keeps the entire Colorado soccer community informed.
- Little Legends (Minors Policy): SCPPNews Little Legends offers simplified, parent-managed Little Legends portfolios for all ages U18 players. This ensures the journey is documented from the very first goal. SCPPNews will never allow a direct submission of any information without parents if a player is under 18. Only parents have the right to send an email. SCPPNews will verify the legitimacy of the parents. News or portfolios are then submitted according to the positive agreement results.
6. SCPPNews Referees’ Performance Lab
SCPPNews will follow Colorado referees of any level. Articles contain all news about their age, level, performance, and game ranking. SCPPNews also includes a monthly ranking of a referee. SCPPNews sets up separate rankings for professional and the rest of the referees. All referees in professional leagues will have a separate monthly ranking. The rest of the referees will have their own dedicated spot where rankings and news will display.The Complete Platform for Colorado Soccer – Built by the Community, for the Community
SCPPNews is the definitive Colorado Soccer News and Talent Showcase Platform. It focuses exclusively on every Colorado soccer city or corner, including Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Boulder, and Aurora. SCPPNews serves every level, from youth recreational to professional. The features cover a “cab to lion” approach to player identification, coaching performance analyzation, statistics, and news for all participants.
The Complete Platform for Colorado Soccer – Structured Features
Dedicated Space & Tools by Soccer Level
This table details the specialized resources tailored to every stage of a coach’s, club’s, and player’s development in Colorado.
| Level | Dedicated Space & Tools | Primary Community Served |
| Elementary & Recreational | Provides Player Identification Cards, highlight reels, fun badges, and parent-managed profiles to document early development. | Parents/guardians, recreational league families, elementary schools, and introductory grassroots coaches. |
| Youth Clubs (up to U19) | Facilitates Club-branded team pages, full roster Talent Passports, a tryout manager, and league result integration. Includes specific visibility for ODP rosters and USL Academy integration. | Academies, ODP, USL Academy, ECNL/GA/MLS Next/DPL clubs, coaches, families, and players. |
| High School Soccer | Features official CHSAA-linked team pages. Provides weekly 1A–5A state rankings. Includes an All-State nomination system. These tools streamline player tracking and recognition. | High school coaches, college recruiters, player identification specialists, and families rely on these official tools. |
| Collegiate (NCAA / NJCAA / NAIA) | Offers complete Roster integration. Tracks detailed academic + athletic stats. Features a transfer portal tracker. Includes the public Colorado Commitment Wall for state talent recognition. | College programs (NCAA, NJCAA, NAIA), student-athletes, and professional recruiters seeking proven Colorado talent. |
| College Club / Intramural | Provides dedicated team pages for university club teams (e.g., CU, CSU, DU, Air Force). Includes comprehensive inter-university tournament calendars. | College club players, officers, and the broader university soccer community. |
| Amateur Adult & Senior Leagues | Provides dedicated Team pages and full player Passports. Supports leagues including CASL, UPSL qualifiers, and O30/O40 leagues. | Adult amateur players, local league administrators, and the senior soccer community. |
| Professional & Semi-Pro | Provides dedicated visibility and exposure for all Colorado professional and pre-professional teams. Includes organizations like MLS NEXT Pro, USL Championship, and NISA. | Professional Clubs, scouts, technical staff, coaches, and elite players. |
Platform-Wide Tools – Open to the Entire Colorado Soccer Community
| Feature | What It Does | Primary Community Served |
|---|---|---|
| Soccer Coach-Player Passport™ Portfolio System | Unlimited video, stats, techncian analysis, feedbacks, suggestions and recommendations. | Every coach and player |
| Soccer Coach Idea Lab & License Vault | Session planner, video telestration, verified licenses, public or private sharing of drills and philosophies | Technical directors, Coaches and physical conditionneres at all levels |
| Soccer Colorado Talent Map (Interactive) | Real-time map with filters: age, position, club, school, graduation year, etc. | Scouts, college coaches, club directors |
| Soccer Tryout | Single statewide calendar – every tryout from rec to pro, one-click application using your Passport | Players, parents, clubs |
| Soccer Verified Scout Dashboard | Private, NCAA-compliant portal for college programs and professional clubs | University and pro recruiters only |
| SCPPNews Pipeline Tracker | Public, daily-updated list of every Colorado player who earns college roster spot, pro contract, or USYNT call-up | The entire community (inspiration & pride) |
| Monthly Rankings | High school (1A–5A), youth club, college, amateur and professional rankings published once a month | Players, coaches, media, fans |
| Match & Player Analysis Hub | Upload game footage → automatic heatmaps, passing networks, xG + manual telestration tools | Coaches, analysts, teams |
| Soccer Clubs analysis and news | Contracts, breaching contracts, bringing new players, players join a national team, post-season, pre-season and in-season discussions, Coach firing and releasing or hiring. | Presidents, soccer directors, technical directors. |
Sustainability and Community Investment
SCPPNews is sustained entirely by the passion and commitment of the Colorado soccer community’s volunteers.
Every hour and effort contributed keeps these powerful tools open and continually growing for every child, youth, adult, coach, club, elementary, high school and college in our state. Together, SCPPNews and the community are building the strongest soccer ecosystem in America.