Shane McFaul’s soccer future was uncertain when his 2017 club, DSK Shivajians of India, had to fold due to financial issues at an inopportune time for the former Republic of Ireland youth international. And then the National Premier Soccer League and Atlantic City FC made him the perfect offer. A chance to play in a country he’s missed since 2006. A summer’s stay at the Tropicana Hotel in Atlantic City. An opportunity to intern with a partnered eSports organization. And a fully-loaded
Columbus Crew SC Sporting Director and Head Coach Gregg Berhalter addressed the media Wednesday ahead of his team’s upcoming final preseason leg, the Carolina Challenge Cup. The South Carolina trip will include matchups with Atlanta United FC and Minnesota United FC of Major League Soccer as well as the Charleston Battery of the United Soccer League. The games, which will kick off on Saturday, Feb. 17, will test a tweaked Black & Gold team coming off a MLS Cup semifinal last
Being a nation that has won the Copa America 15 times with a population of only three million, children born in Uruguay are soccer players until proven otherwise. There was never a doubt about Maxi Viera. It was announced earlier this month by FC Arizona Owner Scott Taylor that the defending Southwest Conference champions had found their new head coach in Viera. He boasts over 35 years of soccer experience, including playing for clubs in Uruguay, Ecuador, Chile and the
After each Columbus Futsal goal, it is tradition for the attending members of the youth academy to run down the sideline in celebration, many of them waving flags and all of them wearing their league jerseys. Photo Credit: Sam Fahmi/ Studio79 The kids were tired just nine minutes into the game on Saturday evening in the gymnasium of New Covenant Believers Church as Columbus jumped out to an early 5-0 lead, including a hat trick by forward Gui Karaoglan. It can
Sockers FC general manager Jeff VonHolle needed a unique head coach for his team and the Midland-Odessa area of Texas. Enter Luis Rincon. Rincon, currently the Ohio Valley University Director of Soccer/Head Coach, was the man for the job at Sockers FC of the NPSL’s Lone Star Conference. Coaching both the men’s and women’s programs at OVU to successful seasons after finding them in failure three years ago, Rincon has proven himself. “I mean gosh, he inherited on the guy’s side, a
Columbus Crew SC kicked off its preseason on Wednesday with an indoor training session at SuperKick in Lewis Center. The day’s events included a trio of draftees donning the Black & Gold for the first time since the 2018 Major League Soccer SuperDraft last weekend. The all-Atlantic Coast Conference trio included goalkeeper Ben Lundgaard of Virginia Tech, forward Edward Opoku of the University of Virginia and midfielder Luis Argudo out of Wake Forest. “It’s just good to see them working,” Crew SC
The Columbus soccer community expanded on Friday in the form of a National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) expansion team in FC Columbus. The NPSL announced that FC Columbus will be joining the league for the upcoming season and that it will be competing in the Midwest Region’s Great Lakes Conference. The NPSL’s newest team will begin play immediately during the upcoming season in May, playing home games in the Grandview Heights suburb. The stadium sits 1,500 fans and will feature a
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