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Possibilities: Going Pro From the NPSL North
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Possibilities: Going Pro From the NPSL NorthThis is, in many ways, a golden age of soccer in the United States and it is not dissimilar to the dawning of the age of flight. It is a time when people are trying things, there is no accepted model, and independent opportunities exist. The truth, though, is that they are likely to get…
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The Sprint is Over: Final NPSL Power Rankings
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: The Sprint is Over: Final NPSL Power RankingsWhat. A. Season. Minneapolis City went undefeated in conference play and set a new conference points record. Aris shut out the highest scoring team in the nation. Defending champions Duluth finished with the same points they had last season, but needed a final match win just to make the playoffs. Med City came roaring back…
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New Kings in the North, but the NPSL Season is not Over Yet
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: New Kings in the North, but the NPSL Season is not Over YetOn Saturday, Minneapolis City won the NPSL North Conference title by beating last year’s champions Duluth. The emphatic 4-2 victory ended the title race, but things are still wide open for the second playoffs place. The match itself was a brilliant advertisement for NPSL soccer. The home fans were thunderously loud all game. There was…
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Twinstars Earn Draw in Rochester
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Twinstars Earn Draw in RochesterRochester, MN – Twinstars assistant coach Karim Darbaki was the stand-in head coach on Saturday when the Twin Cities team earned a point against Med City FC in Rochester. It was a rough and tumble game, with some diving — one player feigned injury on the Twinstars team before getting up when his team had…
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Minneapolis City Stays Perfect With Win Over Med City
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Minneapolis City Stays Perfect With Win Over Med CityA rainy night slipped out of control between Med City FC and Minneapolis City SC after the final whistle. Players and coaches got into an argument, with taunting uttered in mostly hushed tones, as the post-match scene fell into chaos. According to chatter on the field, uneven refereeing seemed to be the cause of the…
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The Half-way Point: NPSL North Power Rankings
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: The Half-way Point: NPSL North Power RankingsIt is hard to win games in the NPSL, harder than in most leagues, because of a mixture of talent parity and roster unpredictability unique to a summer league reliant on college-aged and recent post-college players who are not being paid to play. Couple that with a short season in an extremely compact time frame…
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Med City, Duluth FC Play to Stalemate
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Med City, Duluth FC Play to StalemateMed City FC staff and players said two weeks ago that nothing from the past season mattered. That they’d forgotten a controversial throw-in from Duluth, their own lax defending, and a last-minute goal that left them dejected as goalscorer Andrew Jenkins threw off his shirt and ran around the end line celebrating in a pure…
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Med City Puts Five Past La Crosse Aris
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Med City Puts Five Past La Crosse ArisMed City FC bounced back from a 3-2 loss to Minneapolis SC over the weekend to defeat La Crosse Aris FC 5-1. Were it not for a stoppage time penalty, the Medics’ 90 minutes of mayhem would have seen them keep a comfortably earned clean sheet. At least after the first half. In the early…
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New-Look Medics Win Nonleague Opener
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: New-Look Medics Win Nonleague OpenerThe day was wet, the night windy and gray – but the future looks bright for Med City FC. The nonleague encounter with Union Dubuque FC, a team that plays in the United Premier Soccer League, ended with Rochester’s National Premier Soccer League team winning 3-1. Last year Med City finished fourth in the NPSL’s…
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Meet the Crows: Six Things to Know About Minneapolis City
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Meet the Crows: Six Things to Know About Minneapolis CityMinneapolis City SC burst on the scene in 2016 and, since then, has been one of the driving forces in the exploding lower division soccer scene in Minnesota. The well-hyped club, which finished 8-1-5 last year, heads into Saturday’s home opener against Rochester’s Med City FC with as much visibility and expectation as they have…
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Soft Open: NPSL North Matchweek One Recap
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Soft Open: NPSL North Matchweek One RecapThe first week of the NPSL North season featured just one game; Minneapolis City traveled to Sioux Falls for the opener and the Thunder earned a draw. The conference starts play in earnest with all eight teams in action next Saturday. Minneapolis City SC 2, Sioux Falls Thunder 2 May 5, 2018 Yankton Trails Park…
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NPSL North: Players to Watch This Summer
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: NPSL North: Players to Watch This SummerWhile it may not look like it outside, as far as the calendar is concerned the 2018 NPSL North Conference — summer league soccer — is just a few weeks away. Players to watch this season The upcoming season is going to be a fascinating one. The top four clubs in the conference were…
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Achieving Longevity in the Notoriously Unstable World of Lower-Division Soccer
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Achieving Longevity in the Notoriously Unstable World of Lower-Division SoccerFans of the lower-division game in and around Minnesota have never been more spoiled for choice locally, with the NPSL North — having burst on the scene last summer — now gearing up for its 2018 season with a consistent slate of teams. That isn’t damning them with faint praise. Soccer in the U.S. is…