Though the debut of their Pro team in the USL is still a year off, the historic first player is Leo Guarino. We have know him and his family for almost two decades and know Leo to be a great player and a fine young man as well. He was the initial singing for the  academy out of almost two dozen players who will begin to train Feb 17. In Nov,  the team with HC/SD Josep Gombau and TD & ex-Cosmos technical staff member Luis Gutierrez held a number of trials. Gombau is relocating from Barcelona in advance of the kick off for the USL Academy League, they will compete in the Northeast Div.

Yes, the local NWSL team lost a USWNT player in Mal Pugh but now have secured the services of McCall Zerboni for the next pair of years, the team  holds an option on a 3rd for the now 34 year old. She had some time with the USWNT and has plied her trade locally over the last year. During the Challenge Cup, she played the full of the games in her 5 starts, completing an impressive 78% of her passes, with an assist in leading the team to the semis. Her season came to a crashing halt with a torn meniscus during those games, spending the season in rehab.