The 2017-2018 soccer roster was just released and WOW :o, it is amazing!!!
The team is comprised of players from 10 foreign countries and 8 different states! Let's hope they can get it together and win a conference title!
http://www.valpoathletics.com/msoccer/roster/#.WYTNA4jyvIU
We should get a proper season thread going. Maybe this could be it.
As usual, the men are mostly on the road in the non-conference.
They took Northwestern to overtime in the season opener before falling in sudden death.
Then, after taking the lead at Michigan, they held on to a 1-1 draw through both "golden goal" sudden death overtime periods. A nice result!
So, they're still playing hard against big teams in the non-conference, as has been their tradition. The challenge, at least naively, has been translating that into conference success.
Lots of graduates last year, so a very new look to the starting 11. Lots of international talent, as usual.
Notched... was it two pre-season all-MVC players as well? Ramone Howell and... OK, just Ramone Howell. Still, with Loyola and Evansville landing three players each on the sole all-conference team, it's not a given that you get a player on. One coach voted Missouri state #1 in the conference, yet they didn't land a single player on the squad.
Loyola looked was the choice for #1 by a significant margin, with Evansville second, and Missouri State and Central Arkansas (?!) not far behind. Loyola got 47 of a max 49 points (every coach named them #1 or #2), while Valpo edged Bradley for 6th of 7 (getting 15, above the minimium of 7, points in the polling; Drake not far above with 18).
Should be an exciting season!
Quote from: agibson on August 29, 2017, 10:08:58 AM
We should get a proper season thread going. Maybe this could be it.
What the heck -- I copied your post, agibson, into a separate new thread (see 2017 Men's Soccer Season). Hope you are OK with that.