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This summer, Osei Telesford, Adrian Bumbut and Darryl Roberts all played in the USL's Premier Development League, the top soccer league in the U.S. for amateurs to participate and still keep their college eligibility.
Transfer Joshua Boateng, a transfer from Virginia Tech, scored five goals while playing ACC competition last fall.
So Liberty won't be surprised by the caliber of player that is on the field Saturday at 2 p.m. when top-ranked North Carolina makes a visit to Lynchburg.
The Flames rarely get an opportunity to face a ranked team on their home pitch. The last time one visited was in 2000, when Liberty knocked off No. 5 ranked Wake Forest 4-2.
The Tar Heels won their first four matches to move to the top of the Soccer America Top 25. After No. 2 SMU, the next six teams in the poll play in the ACC (Virginia, Maryland, Clemson, Duke, Wake Forest and Virginia Tech).
"If we kind of shrink the game and play it play by play, minute by minute, our guys aren't going to get consumed by seeing UNC on the fronts and backs of their jerseys," Liberty coach Jeff Alder said.
The big-match experience will help the Flames, too. The aforementioned players spent the summer battling the nation's top college talent in club play. Roberts was second on the Carolina Dynamo with 10 goals and Telesford was the PDL's defender of the year.
Many of UNC's players have spent time in the USA Soccer program playing for youth national teams.
The Flames opened their Big South season Tuesday with a 3-1 loss at Radford. With that match in the books, the focus turns to UNC.
"We're getting e-mails from alumni and former players trying to make it back to the game," Alder said. "A local soccer club of 14-, 15-, 16-year-old kids is coming out. It's going to be great for our community."
Maybe we were looking past Radford We have always played big schools close at home - great chance for a upset! Hopefully the student body will turn out.
If they can pack the Track with fans and create a noise and exciting crowd presence, that will go alot to boosting the play and adrenaline of the players. The talent is there, let's hope the Radford game was just a fluke of everyone trying to feel out their role and that it wasn't a result of egos clashing, or frustration at how the team was organized out on the pitch by the Manager (Coach for the non-soccer savvy.)
They are going to have to have a strict strategy about controlling the tempo of the game by focusing on stalemating the Tarheels by controlling the majority of the possession time of the game and choose their attacks wisely and capitalize on luring UNC into mistakes and then exploiting those holes in the UNC defense.
Go LU Futbol. Bring some feathers to "Tar them Heels."
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SuperJon wrote:Are you serious? I doubt he'd let some random dude check out a bass drum.
I will talk to him about it later today. Im sure once I explain to him what it's for he won't have a problem with it. Id tell him you were coming too. Dr Super is pretty cool.
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We have always played big schools close at home - great chance for a upset! Hopefully the student body will turn out.
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