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article from the beacon https://www.ohio.com/sports/20181203/university-of-akron-soccer-colin-biros-standing-tall-for-zips

SB Zipfan, thank you for all of the good info about the area. Your thoughtfulness will be greatly appreciated by those able to make the trip. https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/college-cup-field-set-for-santa-barbara_aid45578 Travis Clark has the 34 pass sequence in the news article above. I am not on twitter...so I don't know if these are high totals...but I notice that when Travis Clark copied the tweet...it is showing that 8,191 people love the akron soccer tweet and that 1,956 people are talking about the akron soccer tweet. Those seem like super impressive totals to me.

https://www.massivereport.com/2018/12/2/18122186/columbus-crew-sc-interviewing-for-new-head-coach-general-manager

my memory says that 8 years ago....the university had a pub/bar/restaurant gathering place in SB for the zips fans....I think it was within walking distance of the stadium...and they tried to organize a march to the match from the gathering place. The athletic department did a very good job in 2010 of communicating and organizing events in 2010

Taylor Twellman has tweeted his approval

The Beacon is doing a very good job of covering the zips https://www.ohio.com/sports/20181201/university-of-akron-mens-soccer-zips-confident-heading-into-national-semifinal-against-michigan-state

watch party in Akron

J.R. Eskilson is a reporter for top drawer soccer he is also a fan of the soccer style from the zips his first tweet below ....was after Marcel's first curling shot off the cross bar...2nd tweet was after Ezana's great pass to Marcel...after 2nd goal

the seeding committee has been criticized for their high seeding of ACC teams this year. The Big Ten can certainly beat their chest and strut around Big ten - 4 teams in the tourney.... final four - 3 big ten teams and Akron Michigan was the 4th big ten team...Michigan went to PK's in first round and 2nd round so,,,the big ten currently has a 10-0-2 record currently in the tourney

In the 2nd day of games at the showcase....Mr. Will Jackson had another very good day https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/club-soccer-articles/boys-da-winter-showcase:-glut-of-games_aid45571 F Will Jackson, Internationals SC – For the second straight day, Jackson bagged a hat trick, including two in the game’s final seven minutes to tilt the field in his favor. It was a good day for the future Zip when Akron managed to unseat three-time defending champions Stanford Friday night. also, thank you to Zip_ME87 and fknbuflobo for giving me the heads up on Jason Shokalook - that young man has already tweeted that he is an Akron commit...he is class of 2021 Below are some of the top individual efforts noted from the second day of action. U16/17 F Jason Shokalook, Internationals SC – Playing in one of the firs games of the day, Shokalook scored four times as the Internationals won 6-1 against Rio Grande Valley FC.

James Madison just scored at 31;39 to go up 1-0 at Michigan State... winner faces the mighty zips in the semis

https://the18.com/soccer-news/akron-goal-vs-stanford-34-passes-ncaa

You mention the skill of Marco Micaletto in your comment. Mr. Micaletto and so many others are what impress me so much about the growth of this team and the skill of the coaching staff and the work ethic of many of these young men. It is so hard to play soccer in one system for 3 years and then come to Akron for the senior year. It was obvious that both Marco Micaletto and Abdi Mohamed had some growing pains in the adjustment. Abdi also had to deal with a position change. Both Abdi and Marco Micaletto are both playing some fantastic soccer right now and have made enormous changes to their games to help the team win. Tremendous credit to their unselfishness, hard work and also to the coaches for finding the right fit for them. Colin Biros has become an outstanding contributor to the team over the last half of the season. Colin is not the biggest kid on the field but his work ethic is unrivaled. Great credit goes to Colin for his development over the year. Daniel Strachan was a huge part of last year's final four team. It has been a learning process for the coaching staff and Daniel to find the best fit for Daniel with this group of young men. I believe that Daniel has started 2 of the last 3 games in place of Pol. Credit to the coaching staff for knowing the teams and the games when Daniel's talents would be most effective. Daniel also deserves a lot of praise for dealing with not being a starter for every game like he was in 17 and contributing greatly when he has been given the chance to start in huge games. Finally, Ezana Kahsay. Ezana;s give and go with Marcel for the 2nd goal was incredible soccer and was beautiful. Can any of us have envisioned 2-3 years ago that Ezana would make a beautiful, instinctive soccer play that would lead to a magnificent goal in a win over Stanford? Ezana has grown so much over his 5 years with Akron. He is really contributing and he has matured greatly. I am only able to make it to 2-3 home games a year. Many people that sit around me in section 203 have bashed Ezana unmercifully over the last several years. I am very proud of this young man from Eritrea and how he has grown to be a huge contributor. This team would not be going to the college cup without the growth and development during the year of Marco Micaletto, Abdi, Ezana, Colin , Daniel and so many others. Jared Embick and his coaching staff deserve great praise for believing in each young man and finding their best attributes on the soccer field. Sermon over.....Extremely proud of these young men and their coaches.

former Akron U. president Matthew Wilson has been supporting the zips in every tournament game

There is a college soccer talk board on big soccer.com. There are many people on that board that know 200 times more about soccer than I do. There is one man...who is an ACC and Virginia fan...that has incredible knowledge about college soccer. The man is not a fan of the Stanford rough style soccer. His comments about Coach Embick are spot on. This man's comments this morning are below in bold On behalf of all of us who don't like PKs at the College Cup, thank you! Also, congratulations. There was a time this season when the NCAA Tournament seemed in doubt so this is really impressive. And hats off to Jared Embick, who has now taken Akron to the College Cup three times in four seasons. That's a very impressive accomplishment and one Caleb Porter, Ken Lolla and Steve Parker never did. I don't think Akron fans revere Embick yet the way they do some of their former coaches. Perhaps that should change.

https://gostanford.com/news/2018/11/30/mens-soccer-someone-else-this-year.aspx "They're a fantastic team and you can't afford to give them a head start," Knowles Family Director of Men's Soccer Jeremy Gunn said of Akron. "They settled into the game better than we did, they got the early goal and were going to be more confident the rest of the game. They deserve to be going to the final four and we congratulate them for it. We fought back, we gave it everything we had and then they scored a great goal to end it." "You can't argue for a more exciting game," Gunn said. "It had everything you needed. We just fell short to a very good team on the night. I thought our boys fought incredibly and when we got to 2-2 we looked good. Absolute credit to Akron, though. They settled the game down again and the goal they scored was fantastic."

Marcel Zajac's header assist to Colin...was beautiful

Jake will be cheering the guys on in Santa Barbara

first goal also beautiful

2nd goal...beautiful work by Marcel and Ezana