Men's Soccer Roster

[vu72]

The 2017-2018 soccer roster was just released and WOW  , 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

[agibson]

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!

[VULB#62]

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.