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5 unusual facts about National Premier Soccer League


2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup qualification

The 2010 Cup will feature 8 teams from the MLS, 9 from the USSF Division 2 (being all 9 US-based teams), all 6 teams from the USL Second Division, 8 teams from the PDL, 8 from USASA, and an additional team resulting from a single match between Sonoma County Sol of the National Premier Soccer League and PSA Los Gatos Storm of US Club Soccer.

Eric Kronberg

During his college years Kronberg also played for Sonoma County Sol in the National Premier Soccer League.

Francis Mbome

Francis Duclair Mbome Mbome (born 30 November 1988 in Yaoundé, Cameroon) is a Cameroonian-born Equatoguinean football midfielder, who plays for Minnesota Twinstars in the American NPSL (Midwest Division).

He, along with several key players led the team to their second successive Midwest NPSL title.

NPSL

National Premier Soccer League - a soccer league considered to be at the 4th level of the American Soccer Pyramid


Doxa Italia

Doxa entered the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup for the first time in 2009, and narrowly missed out on qualifying for the tournament proper at the first attempt, finishing second to National Premier Soccer League side Sonoma County Sol on goal difference.

Dustin Swinehart

Swinehart played the amateur team CASL Elite in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup in 2010; his team won their regional qualification group (which also featured NPSL teams FC Tulsa and Atlanta FC) before falling 4-2 to USL Second Division pro side Charleston Battery in the first round of tournament proper.

Houston Hurricanes FC

On December 24, 2012, the National Premier Soccer League released an announcement on its website that Galveston Pirate SC team owner Brendan Keyes would relocate and rebrand his franchise for the 2013 NPSL season.

Marcus Watson

He found himself without a club when the Thunder folded at the end of the 2009 USL-1 season; after a brief stint with LA-based amateur team Doxa Italia, he joined Ventura County Fusion of the USL Premier Development League for the 2010 season, before moving on to play for the Hollywood United Hitmen in the National Premier Soccer League in 2011.


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