Floridians F.C.

Full name	Floridians Football Club
Nickname(s)	FFC
Founded	2009
Ground	Central Broward Regional Park Lauderhill, Florida
Capacity	20,000
Owner	Pascal Cohen & Franck Gotsman
President	Franck Gotsman
Head Coach	Fernando Valenzuela
League	Formerly PDL
2016	4th, Southeast Division Playoffs: DNQ
Website	Club website
Home colors Away colors

The Floridians Football Club (Floridians FC or FFC) is an American soccer team based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. The club currently competes in the fourth tier of the American soccer pyramid, a hierarchy football soccer structure model. The Floridians compete in the Premier Development League (PDL). in the Southeast Division of the Southern Conference. The football club plays its home games on the Main Event Field at Central Broward Regional Park in nearby Lauderhill, Florida. The club's colors are navy and yellow, with a yellow soccer ball logo badge.

History

On Wednesday, May 20, 2009, Schulz Academy was announced as a USL Premier Development League expansion franchise, ^[1] joining the league in 2010. The team played its first competitive game on May 7, 2010, a 0–1 loss to the Bradenton Academics. ^[2]

The PDL team was coached by founder Josef Schulz. Notable players that have been developed within the club included Matt Luzunaris, Hasani Sinclair and CJ Phelps of the U18 US Men's National Team; Donovan Henry, Zach Herold, and Stefan Jerome of the US U17 Men's National Team; and US National Team and Toronto FC striker Jozy Altidore. Following the death of Josef Schulz, the school decided to resume the Soccer Academy but gave up the PDL franchise to the Floridians FC.

Players

Current players

As of 2015 ^[update]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   ARG Pablo Terminello 3 DF   COL Cristian Morales 5 MF   ARG Jose Vidal 6 DF   ENG Jason Sangha 7 MF   PUR Deniz Bozkurt 8 FW   FRA John Junior Nkomb Nkomb 9 FW   BRA Paolo Vaz 10 MF   FRA Rudy Haddad 11 FW   BRA Lucas Roque 12 MF   USA William Suedois 14 DF   COL Luis Caicedo 15 MF   JAM Olando Lawrence 17 MF   FRA Aliou Traore 19 FW   COL Daniel Marrugo 20 MF   IRL Mark Hanlon

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 FW   PUR Jose Abrams 22 MF   BRA Antonio Junior 23 GK   FRA Kololo M'Sendo 24 MF   ARG Matias Solari 25 MF   BRA Bruno Da Silva 26 FW   ENG Theo Stamtapoulos 27 MF   PER Jean Rodriguez 28 MF   HAI Marc Duqueney 29 FW   IRL Alan McCann 30 GK   ISR Daniel Har 31 DF   ARG Santiago Crosetti 32 DF   ARG Facundo Torres 33 MF   USA Miguel Benito 35 MF   PER Miguelangel Grande 00 GK   USA Tyler Brew

Notable former players

This list of notable former players comprises players who went on to play professional soccer after playing for the team in the Premier Development League, or those who previously played professionally before joining the team with Schulz Academy.

• Jozy Altidore^{[ citation needed]}
• Matt Luzunaris
• Shawn Barry
• Darnell King
• Moussa Toure

Former players

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK   USA Terrance Dieterich — GK   USA David Sarabia — FW   USA Andrew Wright — FW   PER Andres Velasquez — MF   USA Juan Gonzalez — DF   PER Alex Trujillo — MF   USA Manuel Gonzalez — MF   PER Charlie Caceda — MF   USA William Suedois — FW   USA Andrew Mattek — MF   USA Donovan Henry — MF   PUR Jose Abrams — DF   USA Nigel Blair — DF   USA Stephen Millage — FW   USA Christian Jerome

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF   USA Thurstan Johnson — MF   USA Jeff Michaud — MF   CAN Sallim Dahman — DF   ALG Yanis Mana — MF   GER Stephan von Lattorff — MF   USA Brendan Abernethy — MF   ARG Nicolas Olsak — FW   USA Daniel Wartner — MF   USA Nishane Reid — MF   TUR Levent Güler — GK   USA John Ricketti — GK   ITA Gian Di Boscio — MF   USA Andrés Chevasco — MF   CRO Milorad Pasic

Year-by-year

Head coaches

• Fernando Valenzuela (2014–Current)
• Claude Anelka (2013–2014)
• Josef Schulz (2010–2013)

Stadium

• Main Event Field at Central Broward Regional Park; Lauderhill, Florida (2010–present)
• Stadium at Florida Atlantic University; Boca Raton, Florida 1 game (2010)

References

External links

• Official Site Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine