Rough Riders Recap: Super Y League National Finals
Written by Michael Lewis, Front Row Soccer Success can be defined in several ways. Winning is the best gauge, and winning championships is even better. But there are different levels of success, as a pair of Long Island Rough Riders teams demonstrated this past year. The Rough Riders’ Girls Under-13 and Boys U-12 teams excelled […]
2023 Top 10 Moments of the Year
Written by Michael Lewis, Front Row Soccer Thirty years on, the Long Island Rough Riders are still alive and kicking. In fact, 2023 turned into yet another memorable and successful year for the club. Here are the top 10 Rough Riders’ highlights of the past year: 1. Completing the player pathway The Rough Riders launched […]
2022 Super Y League Finals
Written by Michael Lewis Sometimes you’ve got to experience something to get better at it. Take, for example, the Long Island Rough Riders Boys Under-14 team. Last year the squad struggled at the USL Super Y Nationals in Tampa, Fla. “That first years’ experience was a tough learning experience in terms of results,” head coach […]
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Event Recap: World Cup Watch Party
Written by Michael Lewis UNIONDALE, N.Y. – Soccer fans of all ages sometimes cheered, sometimes groaned and sometimes applauded at a World Cup Watch Party at the Mitchel Field Complex Indoor Facility for a highly anticipated World Cup showdown on Friday afternoon. While there were no goals scored and no winner of the U.S. men’s […]
New Youth Teams!
The Rough Riders are excited to announce two new youth programs launching in Fall 2022. Rough Rider Mini (3-5 years old) and Rough Rider Junior (5-8 years old) are set to kick off in September and utilize the “progression and play” approach, a modern model of development created to teach micro and macro skills during […]
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Matt Lannon Signs as Club Technical Director
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin UNIONDALE, N.Y. – (Thursday, February 24, 2022) – The Rough Riders are excited to announce Matt Lannon as Club Technical Director. “We are excited to bring in Matt to direct the Select program,” said Assistant General Manager Tanner Sands. “He has a decade of experience managing […]
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U-13 Boys at Super Y League Finals
An amazing weekend for our U13 Boys team competing in the Super Y League finals down in the sunshine state. So proud of this team and everything they accomplished this season!