After a successful campaign at the PSG World Cup in Paris, France last summer, two local soccer stars who began their careers at the Florida Keys Soccer Club will be making history internationally again in the coming year.
Kayla Serota, a defensive standout, and Nevyn Walsh, the starting goalie for the PSG Academies FC Miami City U17 girls team, were selected to play in the 2025 Gothia Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden in July. Both girls are playing up above their respective age groups and are competing at a high level in girls soccer while continuing to build upon their international tournament experiences.
The Gothia Cup was first held in 1975 and is the world’s largest and most international youth soccer tournament. Each year, around 1,900 teams from 75 nations take part, playing almost 5,000 games on 112 pitches. Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025, the Gothia Cup is known as the top youth soccer tournament in the world. Through the years, over 1.3 million players from a total of 151 countries have participated in the tournament.
Serota, a freshman at Coral Shores High, and Walsh, who is in eighth grade at Plantation Key School, were part of the girls U14 team that won the 2022 Hurricane Cup, defeating Homestead on their home field and becoming the first soccer team (boys or girls) from the Upper Keys to ever win the Hurricane Cup tournament.
Other local soccer players from the Florida Keys Soccer Club 2022 girls Hurricane Cup Champions, Ally Rosendale and Lela Goodrich, are playing as freshmen for the Coral Shores High School varsity girls soccer team and have already made an impact for the Hurricanes.
