The starting lineup for last night's friendly with Notre Dame listed in the box score as a 4-4-2
although Justin Davis played up front making it more of the 4-3-3 as Fishbein said he'd
use.
Substitutions/times in parentheses.
Chris Wright (Masashi Shibuya-43) - PJ Wilson (Stephen Brown-27/Andrew Parsons-45)
Justin Davis (James Urbany-33) - Lance Rozeboom (Michael Green-29) - Michael Reed - Jack
Smithson
Gal Yaar - Zach Tierney - Simon Ejdemyr - Mike Porter (Ryan Farquharson-27)
Eric Staver
Second half lineup and substitutions:
Wright - Urbany (Wilson-55/Farquharson-71/Wilson-82/Urbany-89)
Davis (Shibuya-71/Davis-82) - Rozeboom (Green-78) - Reed - Green (Smithson-62)
Yaar - Tierney - Ejdemyr - Farquharson (Porter-60)
Staver (Justin Fite-60)
Overtime lineup and substitutions:
Wright - Urbany
Davis - Green - Reed - Smithson
Yaar - Tierney (Farquharson-103) - Ejdemyr - Porter
Fite
Full box score
Some observations:
Michael Reed still commits more dangerous turnovers than I'd like but the team's defensive
positioning and recovery speed was evident for the most part.
College Soccer News has the Lobos ranked 19th and the National Soccer Coaches Association of
America (NSCAA) ranks them just outside the top 25 also receiving votes (28th).
Somewhat disappointing based on the tradition of the last half decade, the 10 returning players and
the quality of transfers and freshman coming in.
Wednesday August 20th the Lobos host Notre Dame in their only exhibition game this year.
The evening has a second major purpose in addition to getting ready for the 2008 season. The Lobos
are teaming up with the American Cancer Society in a variety of ways to raise money and awareness
prior to, during, and after the game.
The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Coaches Poll is out today and once again the Lobos
are picked to win it (just ahead of Denver).
http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-soccer/stories/080608aai.html
2008 MPSF Preseason Coaches Poll
1. New Mexico - 24 pts. (4 1st Place Votes) - 12-5-2/7-1-2 (1ST/NCAA Tournament First Round)
2.
UNM Athletic Department has release the official 2008 Roster (below).
Right off the bat we need to say goodbye to a few more fellows since March:
#14 Bryan Sajjadi - 5-6/155 - Midfield - Arlington, Texas
#15 Joel Theissen - 5-7/175 - Midfield - Windsor, New South Wales
#21 Gardner Morrow - 5-10 / 165 - Forward - Shelburne, VT
#24 Charles Conway - 6-1/190 - Defender/Midfield - Albuquerque, NM
Also, according to the official roster we don't get to see Mark Geria (M/D Canberra, Australia) and
Anders Selander (D Ulrichehamn, Sweden) that were announced by the University as incoming in the
spring.
(Summary is not available.)
There's no guarantee that Lance Watson will be back with the big club this year (after playing
reserves all of last) but following information like this coming out of the KC Wizards camp it is
looking pretty good. He's with the full club in Argentina now on their pre-season tour and played
in midfield with most of the starters.
-----------------Seniors: 44 wins in 3 years - would need an 18 win season to break school record
for wins by a class (61 by both '05 and '07)
#2 Mike Porter - 6-1/165 - Defender/Midfield - 3 year letterman - Las Cruces, NM (Las Cruces
HS)
I have a substantial exchange (disagreement really) with blogger Albuquerque about Porter in the
comments section of the 2007 Re-Cap post below so I won't re-hash it all here.
Former UNM and Notre Dame Asst. Coach Jamie Clark will take over the Harvard program. Clark spent 3
seasons with the Lobos ('02-'04) under Jeremy Fishbein. Prior to his arrival at UNM, Clark played
three seasons with the San Jose Earthquakes (out of Stanford) - Tolstoy
-------Update 2:At some point I'd like to take a look at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation,
team by team. Appreciate you dropping any insights, links, etc into the comments - Tolstoy
-------
Update 1:
2007 Re-Cap done - see below, comments welcome - Tolstoy
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I've got drafts started on the following topics:
-returning players for 2008
-new recruits for 2008
-2007 re-cap - COMPLETED
-2008 outlook
feel free to use this thread on any of these topics or anything else not covered in previous posts
- Tolstoy
------------Update 5:More from reader albuquerque at comment #3 and my replies at #4 and #5 - cross
posted from Big Soccer dot com
------------Update 4:If my math is correct Blake Danaher, Mike Graczyk, David Gualdarama and Joey
Vitagliano, as a class, tied the '05 team seniors with a school record 61 wins in 4 years.
We're all curious about the status of the players that have contributed to this wonderful program.
We want to know what they're doing, where they are and if they are playing. Use this post to make
updates - Tolstoy
2007
Diego Barrera - 5-7/155 - Midfield - Thousand Oaks, CA - Played Senior year after transferring in
from Loyola Marymount
Current Info:
Blake Danaher - 5-9/155 - Midfield/Forward - Mesquite, TX - 4 year letterman
Current Info:
Mike Graczyk - 6-1/170 - Goalkeeper - Albuquerque, NM (La Cueva HS) - 4 year letterman
Current Info:
Graczyk Taken by the Colorado Rapids in the MLS Supplemental Draft
David Gualdarama - 5-9/155 - Midfield - Waianae, HI - 4 year letterman
Current Info:
Joey Vitagliano - 5-8/145 - Midfielder - Scottsdale, AZ (Horizon HS) - 4 year letterman
Current Info:
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2006
Andrew Boyens - 6-4/180 - Defender - Dunedin, New Zealand - 3 year letterman
Three-year starter and anchor of the Lobo defense since 2004.
Update 2:
On February 10, 2008 8:13 AM josh asked...
"Do we know if all of the recruits [minus Murphy] will have all four years of eligibility
available? I know sometimes the international guys don't get all 4."
I posed the question 'do the international players Mark Geria and Anders Selander have 4 years or
fewer?
I'm a fan of this team. I searched for information and opinion apart from the official website for
UNM Sports and found very little. Big Soccer dot com has a great college and amateur section
where someone named HakanGS started a thread in September of 2006 but nothing like I hope this
page becomes.
