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It’s an event that started out as a small holiday tournament, and one that has blossomed into a major recruiting tournament with hundreds of college coaches in attendance.
The Disney Soccer Showcase has grown from one 80-team tournament to a series of three top-level national events with more than 600 teams on display. Held at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex on Dec. 27-Jan.2, countless local boys and girls players will be in attendance hoping to make a name for themselves.
This is just one of the major blue chip recruiting tournaments of the year, but as many college coaches told me last year – this is their favorite. It’s warm, and it’s during the perfect time of the year with the college season over and school on break.
Eclipse Select, Chicago Magic, Sockers, Campton United, Chicago Fire Juniors, ELA and the Cosmos will represent Illinois in the showcase. As was the case was the past three years, I will be in attendance to see which of the rising stars are catching the attention of major Division I coaches.
The question is – who do you consider to be some of the rising stars in the freshman and sophomore classes?
- Joe Trost
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Four Lake Zurich sophomores (who played varsity last year) will be playing with the U16 Sockers team at Disney. You may want to take a look at them (Eric Pothast, Tim Kreutz, Matt Hussey, Nick Janus). Their first game is against the Chelsea academy team from England.
Posted by: LZsupporter | December 21, 2007 10:02 AM
You will want to keep the Chicago Fire U16 and Naperville North sophomore defender Greg Dmyterko in mind. He's been playing rugged defense at the Germantown Invitational and is looking very sharp at the ODP sessions. He has a real chance to anchor the Illinois U16 ODP team's centerback spot, and his improvement in the last year is very noticable.
Posted by: Corner Kick | January 11, 2008 10:48 AM
Other current sophomores to watch:
Jack Turanchick-GK-Nequa Valley
Chris Prince- F-Naperville Central
Colin Rook- D- Naperville Central
Chris Boswell-M-Naperville North
Greg Dmyterko-D-Naperville North
Brian Ciesulka-F/M-Nequa Valley
Nate Freed-M- Nequa Valley
Nick Patel-M/D-Waubonsie Valley
John Wilger-D-Batavia or St. Charles
Scott Davis-M-Nequa Valley
George Elliot-M-Benet
Art Garza-M/D-Naperville Central
Robbie Laroque-D-Hinsdale Central
Michael Oleskewicz-F-Hinsdale Central
Mark Finan-F-Fenwick
Tim Spidle-M-Plainfield Central
These are the some of the top sophomore players in the Western suburbs.
Not sure which HS the following play with: Marco Guttierrez, Jorge Flores, Kyle Spoo, Jordon Ventura,Eric Pothast,Brian Lunar. Many of these players are in Academy squads, and may not play HS this coming fall, however.
Posted by: goalpost | January 31, 2008 12:00 PM