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PRESS-ENTERPRISE: From One Win To Top 25 For UC Riverside Men's Soccer
9/26/2012 2:46:00 PM | Men's Soccer
Riverside—The bottom seemed to have fallen out of UC Riverside’s men’s soccer program in 2009.
Coach Junior Gonzalez recalls that he was pretty optimistic going into that season, his sixth as the program’s head coach. But four players he’d expected to be significant were instead academically ineligible. The Highlanders then went out and finished 1-16-1, including an 0-9-1 record in the Big West. They scored 12 goals in 18 games and were shut out 10 times, including six 1-0 losses.
“We had a hard working team that wanted to win, but unfortunately we just couldn’t put it in the back of the net,” recalled senior defender Jose Diaz.
To read the rest of the article, please visit the Press-Enterprise web site.
Coach Junior Gonzalez recalls that he was pretty optimistic going into that season, his sixth as the program’s head coach. But four players he’d expected to be significant were instead academically ineligible. The Highlanders then went out and finished 1-16-1, including an 0-9-1 record in the Big West. They scored 12 goals in 18 games and were shut out 10 times, including six 1-0 losses.
“We had a hard working team that wanted to win, but unfortunately we just couldn’t put it in the back of the net,” recalled senior defender Jose Diaz.
To read the rest of the article, please visit the Press-Enterprise web site.
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