Young soccer players chasing pro dreams at new academies (AP) Louis Mateus is living an American soccer coach's dream. Standing under a big, white inflated dome, he watches about 40 teenage boys trickle inside for two hours of drills and scrimmages in what by day is a suburban Chicago driving range. The players -- Mateus' players -- are members of the Chicago Fire's Youth Development Academy, unpaid apprentices dedicated to the slim hope that someday they'll... Publish Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:02:43 PDT Read more...