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Courtesy NYCFC
New York City FC Announce Preseason for 2022 Season
NEW YORK, N.Y., January 19, 2022 – New York City FC (NYCFC) today announced the Club’s preseason plans for the 2022 Major League Soccer season. NYCFC departed for training camp on Monday, January 17. The camp will begin in Orlando and will feature two friendlies during the Club’s stay in Florida. NYCFC will kick off their preseason slate against Orlando City SC on Sunday, January 23. A second match will be played on January 29 against CF Montreal before the team departs to Cancun, Mexico for the remainder of camp. NYCFC will play the first of two friendlies in Mexico on Saturday, February 5 against local side Cancun FC with an additional pair of games scheduled for Wednesday, February 9, where NYCFC First Team will face Queretaro FC and the Second Team playing Inter Playa del Carmen. The team will then travel to San Jose, Costa Rica ahead of their CONCACAF Champions League First Leg match against Santos de Guapiles FC to be played in the National Stadium of Costa Rica on Tuesday, February 15. The Club briefly flies back to New York prior to leaving for Los Angeles on Sunday, February 20. The ‘Boys in Blue’ will play the Second Leg of the CONCACAF Champions League against Santos de Guapiles FC at Banc of America Stadium in LA on Wednesday, February 23. Shortly after, on Sunday, February 27 NYCFC will face LA Galaxy in their MLS Season Opener in Carson, C.A. 32 players make this season’s preseason traveling roster for Orlando. Five academy players will join the First Team this year, including Mateo Ponce-Ocampo, who was part of the 2021 preseason. Goalkeeper and Club Captain Sean Johnson and Defender Alexander Callens will report to camp after their international duty assignments. The 2022 preseason roster is listed below: Goalkeepers (3): Luis Barraza, Cody Mizell, Alexander Yagudayev^ Defenders (10): Malte Amundsen, Nicholas Benalcazar, Maxime Chanot, Tayvon Gray, Chris Gloster, Klevis Haxhari^, Vuk Latinovich, Christian McFarlane, Samuel Owusu, Anton Tinnerholm Midfielders (11): Nicolas Acevedo, Maximo Carrizo^, Justin Haak, Andres Jasson, Alfredo Morales, Maxi Moralez, Keaton Parks, Mateo Ponce-Ocampo^, Santiago Rodriguez, Jonathan Shore^, Gedion Zelalem Forwards (8): Kingsford Adjei*, Thiago Andrade, Valentin Castellanos, Héber, Jonathan Jimenez, Talles Magno, Kevin O’Toole*, El Mahdi Youssoufi* ^ NYCFC Academy Player * Unsigned MLS SuperDraft Selection Preseason Key Dates
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| ABOUT NEW YORK CITY FCNew York City Football Club (NYCFC) is an American professional soccer team that competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) in the Eastern Conference of the League. It was announced as the League's 20th franchise on May 21, 2013 and is the first and only MLS Club located within the five boroughs of New York City. NYCFC kicked off its inaugural MLS season in March 2015 and is majority owned by City Football Group (CFG). Since its inaugural season, the Club has qualified for the MLS Cup Playoffs the last six consecutive seasons. In 2021, NYCFC won the MLS Cup in the Club's first ever appearance, becoming the first professional sports franchise based in New York to win a championship in a decade. NYCFC’s Academy currently features teams from the U-12 to U-18 age groups and became the first Academy in the country to win back-to-back national titles at the U-19 level. NYCFC proudly supports City in the Community (CITC) foundation to use the power of soccer to uplift communities; one of the programs, New York City Soccer Initiative (NYCSI) is a first-of-its-kind public-private community partnership to open 50 mini-soccer pitches in underserved NYC neighborhoods in five years |