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5 unusual facts about USL


Christie Shaner

Shaner spent the 2010 season playing for two Los Angeles clubs, Pali Blues of the USL's W-League and Ajax America Women of the Women's Premier Soccer League.

Danny DeVall

In 1997, the Nashville Metros were promoted to full professional status as an A-League division team of the USL.

Digital Cinema Open System Alliance

Dolby Laboratories, MikroM, USL, and XDC Collaborate on Interface Specifications to Lower Development Costs, to Increase Flexibility, and to Support Innovation for the Digital Cinema Industry

Gavin Wilkinson

Wilkinson played defense for with the USL Portland Timbers from 2001–2006, adding assistant coach duties in 2005 and 2006.

Jon Lemmon

Although he grew up in Lawrence, KS, Lemmon played high school soccer at Maranatha Academy High School in Shawnee, Kansas, college soccer at MidAmerica Nazarene University, and in the USL for Cleveland City Stars and now with HNK Primorac.


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.

Due to the reshuffling of teams and the compromise between the United Soccer Leagues and the breakaway North American Soccer League, there are only 6 teams in USL-2 and 9 eligible teams in the newly formed USSF Division 2 Professional League (Montreal Impact, Vancouver Whitecaps FC and Puerto Rico Islanders are not eligible because they are Canadian or Puerto Rican clubs).

All-time Bermuda Hogges roster

This list comprises all players who have participated in at least one league match for Bermuda Hogges since the team's first USL season in 2007.

All-time Nashville Metros roster

This list comprises all players who have participated in at least one league match for Nashville Metros in the USL Premier Development League since the USL began keeping detailed records in 2003.

All-time Northern Virginia Royals roster

This list comprises all players who have participated in at least one league match for Northern Virginia Royals in the USL Premier Development League since the USL began keeping detailed records in 2003.

All-time Reading United A.C. roster

This list comprises all players who have participated in at least one league match for Reading United (formerly Reading Rage) in the USL Premier Development League since the USL began keeping detailed records in 2003.

All-time Vancouver Whitecaps roster

Players who were on the roster but never played a first team game are not listed; players who appeared for the team in other competitions (Open Canada Cup, CONCACAF Champions League, etc.) but never actually made an USL appearance are noted at the bottom of the page where appropriate.

All-time Yakima Reds roster

This list comprises all players who have participated in at least one league match for Yakima Reds in the USL Premier Development League since the USL began keeping detailed records in 2003.

Central SC Cobras

Cobras defender Blakely Mattern was awarded the USL W-League Defender of the Year Award as well as being named to the USL W-League All-League and All-Conference teams.

E. E. Waddell High School

tenants = E.E. Waddell Rams
Charlotte Eagles (USL-2) (2001-2007)
Charlotte Lady Eagles (W-League) (2001-2007)
Olympic Trojans (2013)
West Meck Hawks

George Josten

George Josten (born May 12, 1986 in Idaho Falls, Idaho) is an American soccer player who last played for Portland Timbers in the USSF Division-2 Professional League.

John Zangrilli

Becoming a Referee in 1975, Zangrilli reached National grade three years later and remained as such until 1984, officiating hundreds of National Open and Amateur Cups games at the State and Regional level, North American Soccer League’s ASL and USL, and international games including the NY Cosmos (NASL) vs. S.S. Lazio (Italy).

Kenga

David Kenga (born 1982), Kenyan soccer player who currently plays for Indiana Invaders in the USL Premier Development League

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.

Niall Thompson

He started his professional career as a trainee with Crystal Palace but after an unsuccessful spell moved to play for Colchester United, Montreal Impact, Zultse VV, Seattle Sounders, Brentford, Vancouver 86ers, Airdrieonians, Bay Area Seals, Wycombe Wanderers, Montreal Impact and Vancouver Whitecaps.

O'Brian Woodbine

At the conclusion of the USL-1 season, Woodbine returned to Jamaica to play for Reno in the 2009-2010 Western Confederation Super League, under coach Wendell Downswell.

Starfire Sports

Starfire features fields for indoor and outdoor soccer, and occasionally rugby union games, as well as a 4,500-seat soccer stadium previously used by the USL Seattle Sounders and now used by the MLS Seattle Sounders FC for US Open Cup matches, the Seattle Reign FC of the NWSL, and the Seattle Sounders Women of the W-League.

Tim Sahaydak

From 1998 to 2000, he played matches for the Project-40 team in the United Soccer Leagues (USL) A-League.

Tulsa Tornados

Established by David Fraser during the spring of 1985, the team's ownership transferred to a group led by Jimbo Elrod and Sammie Jo Cole after Fraser failed to pay the players during the pre-season USL Cup.

UC Santa Barbara Gauchos men's soccer professionals

Nate Boyden (2001–2005) graduated from UCSB and signed with Seattle Sounders as a free agent.

Underground Sound of Lisbon

In 1998, USL contributed "Hailwa Yenge Oike Mbela" to the AIDS benefit compilation album Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon produced by the Red Hot Organization.

Underground Sound of Lisbon (sometimes shortened to USL) was a collaboration between Portuguese house music producers Rui da Silva (then known as Doctor J) and DJ Vibe (real name Tó Pereira).

USL Dunkerque

In 1990, Belgian player Jean-Marc Bosman sought to move from RFC Liège in his home country to USL Dunkerque after his Belgian contract expired.


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