Tag: soccer

With the 2016 Euro Cup well underway, there are a few teams that have shocked the world with their performances thus far — among them are Albania and Wales.

In the penultimate weekend of the 2015-2016 Premier League season, first-time champions Leicester City lifted the trophy in front of their home fans in what was a beautiful moment for all fans of the sport. As the season winds down and teams have only one or two games left, the scrap for safety becomes the biggest focus. This year’s relegation battle includes Norwich City, Newcastle, and Sunderland, with Aston Villa confirming their drop to the Football League Championship a few weeks earlier after a dismal season which saw them end the year with their third different head coach this season.

The U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team opened up their 2016 account with a friendly match against Iceland Jan. 31. The game was played at the StubHub Center in Los Angeles with the U.S. naming a starting lineup with two debutants. Iceland also used this friendly game as a way to give youngsters an opportunity and prepare for the upcoming Euro 2016 championship.

On Halloween, the Drexel University men’s soccer team hosted Northeastern University in a battle of the bottom two teams in the Colonial Athletic Association. It was appropriately scary, but mostly in the way a video of an unavoidable car crash is scary.

The Drexel University men’s soccer team has now lost eight consecutive games. Unless it’s opposite day (which it isn’t, I checked), that’s a very bad streak.

Sometimes, things fall apart. In this case, what’s falling apart is the men’s soccer team’s season.

The Drexel women’s soccer team split their matches at home this weekend.

The good news is that Drexel’s men’s soccer team scored in both of their last two games. The bad news is that opponents scored eight goals total in both of those games.

If I had a dollar for how many games the Drexel University men’s soccer team has scored in this season, I’d have five whole dollars. That’s an entire meal from any of the Halal food trucks on campus or about four bags of gummy bears.

It’s been a predictably rough start for the Drexel University men’s soccer team. They graduated seven seniors from last year’s team, which was mediocre in its own right finishing 5-10-3. They had struggles putting the ball in the net last year, even with a crop of experienced seniors leading the attack.