The home opener for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds featured no other than New York Red Bulls II, a team that won just about everything last season including the Regular Season, Eastern Conference, and USL Cup titles. Photo Credit: ISNSoccer.com The weather was perfect, the atmosphere absolutely electric, and the gameplay was much more of the same. The first half featured a goalfest of sorts as four goals were scored and both sides played entertaining football. The goals came at a frenzied pace,
Steffens bolsters front line for 2016 USL season The Pittsburgh Riverhounds are pleased to announce the additions of experienced forwards Corey Hertzog and Zak Boggs for the 2016 United Soccer League season. Hertzog led the NCAA Division I in goals during his junior year at Penn State University before joining the New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer’s 2011 SuperDraft. The 25-year-old from Reading, Pa. scored nine goals for the Wilmington Hammerheads during a loan spell in 2012 and returned to
Reading United A.C. and Penn State forward Corey Hertzog will forgo his final year of NCAA eligibility and enter the 2011 MLS Draft as a member of Generation adidas. Not long after his interview on Monday’s Reading United Soccer Scene TV show, Hertzog declared his intentions of making the jump to the next level of his soccer career. “My three years at Penn State were the best three years of my life,” Hertzog wrote to a Penn State alumnus, “I am going