Camden County College Men's Soccer

Men's Soccer Pre-Season Review

The Cougars look to begin their 2022 Fall campaign tomorrow against Monroe College-Bronx at Noon at Gloucester Twp Community Park. Through the August pre-season Coach Perrella has had to integrate many new faces to determine how the Cougars can get back to the national tournament. "It's always a challenge when you run a junior college program and only get players for 2 years, a lot of the success over the years has been due to finding the right players who can compete immediately which is difficult but I believe we have a very talented group this fall". The Cougars have a lot to live up to as the team finished 3rd in the nation in 2021 with a record of 14-2-2 overall, falling to eventually National Champion Dallas-Richland.

Familiar returning faces for the Cougars are Sophomores Mahmoud Shech Ichya, John Fragakis, Joao Goncalves, and newly promoted captain Riccardo Italiano and some of the new Freshmen include players representing Israel, Netherlands, Columbia, Australia, England and more.

During the pre-season the Cougars faced Jefferson University losing the match 1-0 and Chestnut Hill earning a 1-1 draw. In those matches there were 30 players receiving game time to allow for the coaching staff to evaluate all of the players before this Saturday's opener. Standout pre-season players included Barry Moolenaar (NED), Javier Oltra (SPA), transfer student Ross Harper (IRE), and freshman goalkeeper Diogo Tristao (POR). "We really like this group as a whole, the guys know it's going to be a battle for minutes and we have a number of really good players that we are fully confident in, this season is about togetherness and finding the balance to engage all the guys doing the right things in training, we feel we're ready to compete".

Be sure to check out the Cougars this season as they fight to compete for a National Championship!

Upcoming Home Games:

Played at Gloucester Twp. Community Park

Sep 3. Monroe-Bronx (Noon)
Sep 15. Sussex (3PM)
Sep 17. Bergen (Noon)