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2021 Orange County SC Season
The 2021 Orange County SC season was the club's eleventh season of existence, and their eleventh consecutive season in the United Soccer League Championship, the second tier of American soccer. Due to the continuing COVID-19 worldwide pandemic, the 2021 USL Championship season divided the league into two conferences with two divisions each. Orange County played in the Pacific Division which included teams LA Galaxy II, Las Vegas Lights FC, Oakland Roots, Phoenix Rising FC, Sacramento Republic FC, San Diego Loyal, and Tacoma Defiance. Pacific Division teams played each division member four times for 28 games, with four out-of-division games to fill out the 32 game schedule. Orange County SC's out-of-conference opponents were: Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC, Rio Grande Valley FC, Charleston Battery, and El Paso Locomotive FC. Orange County opened the season with a 6-2-3 record losses to opening day against Tacoma Defiance and a 88th minute loss to LA Galaxy II. In mid-July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orange County SC
Orange County Soccer Club is an American soccer team based in the Orange County, California city of Irvine. Founded in 2010 as the Los Angeles Blues, the team currently plays in the second tier USL Championship. The team plays its home games at Championship Soccer Stadium, located inside Great Park in Irvine. History The then Los Angeles Blues were founded by Iranian-American businessman Ali Mansouri in 1998 and announced as a USL Pro expansion franchise on December 7, 2010. The team was associated with the United Soccer Leagues W-League team LA Blues, and is part of the larger Orange County Blues organization, which has competed in Los Angeles-area amateur leagues since 1998. They introduced their first three players—goalkeeper Oscar Dautt and midfielders Cesar Rivera and Josh Tudela—at a formal launch event on December 14, 2010. After an extensive pre-season, the Blues played their first games in the Caribbean over the weekend of April 15–17, 2011, a 3–0 victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC
Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC is a professional soccer team based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Founded in 2014, the team is a member of the USL Championship, the second tier of the American soccer pyramid. The franchise is owned by Martin E Ragain and Dean Weidner. The franchise is operated by the Ragain family. History The Ragain Family was awarded USL Pro franchiseon December 5, 2013, with plans to begin play in 2015. The team's name, the "Switchbacks", was announced on January 31, 2014, following a fan contest. The team hired Steve Trittschuh as head coach on March 11, 2014. Luke Vercollone was the first player signed by Colorado Springs in October 2014. The Ragain Family chose Colorado Springs in large part because of thCity for Championsvision by city leaders which included a downtown stadium concept that needed a champion of its own. Steve Trittschuh and Luke Vercollone lead Colorado Springs to two immediate post season appearances in 2015 and 2016. A talented 2017 ros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikko Kuningas
Mikko Kuningas (born 30 July 1997) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ykkösliiga club KäPa. Club career Kuningas has played for PEPO Lappeenranta, Lahti, Lahti Akatemia and FC Inter Turku. Kuningas started his football career in Luumäen Pojat where he played his first junior years. Kuningas played same time in PEPO Lappeenranta and he made his debut with the PEPO first team in 2014. Kuningas made the professional contract with FC Lahti in 2014. He made the debut in Veikkausliiga against FC Ilves on 19 July 2015 and he made the winning goal at the beginning of the second half. In 2015, Kuningas visited Brazil to get acquainted with the activities of Fluminense FC. He was invited to European high-level tournaments Spax Cup in Germany and Terborg Tournament in Holland according to the Fluminense FC U19-team. The club management of the Fluminense FC wanted to hire him with a loan agreement from summer 2016. The transfer eventually failed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastián Guenzatti
Sebastián Ignacio Guenzatti Varela (born July 8, 1991) is a Uruguayan footballer who plays for Indy Eleven in the USL Championship. Youth career Guenzatti was born in Uruguay before moving to the United States at 12, where he grew up in the College Point section of Queens in New York City, and graduated from Francis Lewis High School in Fresh Meadows, where he started for the soccer team all four years. Professional aspirations took Guenzatti back to his homeland, where he played with Peñarol's under-19 team, before moving to Huracán in 2013. Senior career Guenzatti moved back to the United States on July 5, 2013, when he signed for NASL club New York Cosmos. Guenzatti made his debut for the Cosmos on August 10, 2013, in a 0–0 draw against Tampa Bay. He scored the game-winning goal in the team's 1-0 win over Minnesota United FC on September 14, 2013, and earned NASL Team of the Week honors for his performance. The Uruguayan scored one goal and recorded one assist in ten mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 USL Championship Final
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. In conventions of sign where zero is considered neither positive nor negative, 1 is the first and smallest positive integer. It is also sometimes considered the first of the infinite sequence of natural numbers, followed by 2, although by other definitions 1 is the second natural number, following 0. The fundamental mathematical property of 1 is to be a multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. Most if not all properties of 1 can be deduced from this. In advanced mathematics, a multiplicative identity is often denoted 1, even if it is not a number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number; this was not universally accepted until the mid-20th century. Additionally, 1 is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Lang Stadium
Al Lang Stadium is a 7,500-seat sports stadium along the waterfront of downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, United States which was used almost exclusively as a baseball park for over 60 years. Since 2011, it has been the home pitch of the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the USL Championship soccer league. Al Lang Stadium was built in 1947 at the site of an older facility known as St. Petersburg Athletic Park. It is named in honor of Al Lang, a former mayor of St. Petersburg who was instrumental in bringing minor league and spring training baseball to the city in the early 20th century. Al Lang Stadium was the spring training home of the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball from 1948 until 1997, with other teams occasionally sharing use of the facility for a few seasons at a time. During the summer, the ballpark was the home field for the Cardinal's minor league franchise in the Florida State League. The Cardinals moved out in 1998, when St. Petersburg gained their own MLB team and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampa Bay Rowdies
The Tampa Bay Rowdies are an American professional soccer team based in St. Petersburg, Florida. The club was founded in 2008 and first took the pitch in 2010. Since 2017, the Rowdies have been members of the USL Championship in the second tier of the American soccer pyramid. They formerly played in USSF Division 2 (in 2010) and the North American Soccer League (NASL) (from 2011 to 2016), which were also second-tier leagues. The Rowdies play their home games at Al Lang Stadium on St. Petersburg's downtown waterfront. The current club is a phoenix club of the original Tampa Bay Rowdies, who were active from 1975 until 1993, most notably in the original North American Soccer League. It shares its name, logo, and some of its club culture with the original club. The owners of the current club announced their intention to use the old Rowdies' trademarks at its introductory press conference in 2008. However, licensing issues forced the club to use the name FC Tampa Bay until Decembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Okoli
Sean Ugochukwu "Ugo" Okoli (born February 3, 1993) is an American professional soccer player who currently plays for Orange County SC in the USL Championship. Career Early career Born in Federal Way, Washington, Okoli was a part of the Seattle Sounders FC Academy before attending college at Wake Forest University in 2011. While playing for the ''Demon Deacons'' Okoli earned All-ACC honors in all three seasons he attended the college and scored 24 goals with 9 assists during his time there. While playing at Wake Forest, Okoli also played in the USL PDL with the Seattle Sounders FC U-23 side in 2012 and 2013. He was also one of the first Academy players to play for the Seattle Sounders reserve side in the MLS Reserve League in 2011. Professional In January 2014, Okoli, along with academy teammate Aaron Kovar, signed a professional contract with Seattle Sounders FC. He made his debut for the Sounders on March 8 in the team's Major League Soccer opener against Sporting Kansas City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Dhillon
Justin Dhillon (born June 6, 1995) is an American professional soccer player who currently plays for USL Championship club Colorado Springs Switchbacks. Career Dhillon began his career with the LA Galaxy Academy team where he led the Under 16 academy to win the USSDA National Championship for the first time in club history scoring 24 goals in 2011. In his three years with the academy, Dhillon scored an impressive 72 goals in all competitions. During this time Dhillon also appeared for the United States Under 18 Men's National Team. Following this, Dhillon played four years of college soccer at California Polytechnic State University between 2013 and 2016. While at Cal Poly, Dhillon appeared for PSA Elite and USL PDL side FC Golden State Force. On January 13, 2017, Dhillon signed a professional contract with LA Galaxy II, a USL affiliate club of LA Galaxy. On March 15, 2019, Dhillon joined USL side Tacoma Defiance. He acted as a leader for the Tacoma Defiance, providing a big ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Epps (soccer)
Roderick Marcus Epps (born January 16, 1995) is an American soccer player who plays as a winger for Hartford Athletic in the USL Championship. Career Youth and college Epps played four years of college soccer at the University of South Florida between 2013 and 2016, making 75 appearances and scoring 8 goals. While at college, Epps also appeared for Premier Development League side Chicago Fire U-23 in 2014 and 2015. Professional Philadelphia Union On January 13, 2017, Epps was selected 25th overall in the 2017 MLS SuperDraft by Philadelphia Union. He signed with the club on February 6, 2017. Epps made his professional debut on April 1, 2017, while on loan with the Union's United Soccer League affiliate Bethlehem Steel, playing 90 minutes in a 3–2 loss to Rochester Rhinos. On May 27, 2017, Epps made his MLS debut, appearing as a second-half substitute in a 1–0 loss to Real Salt Lake. Epps scored his first goal as a professional on June 14, 2017, helping Philadelphia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Rakovsky
Patrick Rakovsky (born 2 June 1993) is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Phoenix Rising FC in the USL Championship. Rakovsky joined Orange County SC of the USL Championship in December 2020. In 2021, Rakovsky and Orange County won the 2021 USL Championship Final. On January 17, 2023, Rakovsky signed with Phoenix Rising FC. Honours Individual * Fritz Walter Medal U19 Bronze: 2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ... References External links Patrick Rakovskyat fcn.de * * 1993 births Living people German men's footballers Germany men's youth international footballers German people of Czech descent Men's association football goalkeepers Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players FC Schalke 04 players 1. FC Nürnberg II pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braeden Cloutier
Braeden Cloutier (born October 3, 1974) is an American soccer coach and former player who is the former head coach of Orange County SC. As a player, he spent five seasons in Major Soccer League and over twelve in various indoor leagues. Early life Cloutier grew up in Wichita, Kansas where he attended Northwest High School. In July 1992, he left high school and moved to Germany to play for Hamburger SV. He entered Hamburg's youth system, playing on their undefeated championship youth team of 1992–93. Professional In 1993, he moved to the Hamburger SV reserve team for the 1993–94 Regionalliga Nord season. Indoor In 1994, he returned to the United States and signed with the Las Vegas Dustdevils of the Continental Indoor Soccer League. On June 8, 1994, the Dustdevils traded Cloutier to the San Diego Sockers in exchange for Tom Crane. He spent the 1994 season in San Diego, scoring thirteen goals in twenty-seven games. In the fall of 1994, he signed with the Wichita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
