Zach Varga

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Zach Varga
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Full nameZach Varga
Date of birth (1984-03-30) March 30, 1984 (age 35)
Place of birth Mountville, Pennsylvania, United States
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Youth career
2002–2006 Duquesne Dukes
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2006 Cleveland Internationals 5 (0)
2008–2009 Pittsburgh Riverhounds 17 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league onlyand correct as of 11 October 2009

Zach Varga (born March 30, 1984 in Mountville, Pennsylvania) is an American soccer player, currently without a club.

Mountville, Pennsylvania Place in Pennsylvania, United States

Mountville is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,444 at the 2000 census. The original Charles Chips potato chip factory was located here.

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Career

College

Varga attended Hempfield High School played college soccer at Duquesne University from 2002 to 2006. After redshirting in his freshman year, Varga went on to become the cornerstone of Duquesne's team, being named Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year in 2003, to the Atlantic 10 All-Conference Second Team in 2004, and being named to the Atlantic 10 All-Conference First Team and Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Year in 2005. He is Duquesne's career leader in goals against average, at 0.78.

Hempfield High School is a public senior high school located in Salunga-Landisville, Pennsylvania, United States. It serves both East and West Hempfield townships and serves as the only high school for Hempfield School District.

College soccer form of soccer

College soccer is played by teams composed of soccer players who are enrolled in colleges and universities. While it is most widespread in the United States, it is also prominent in South Korea and Canada. The institutions typically hire full-time professional coaches and staff, although the student athletes are strictly amateur and are not paid. College soccer in the United States is sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the sports regulatory body for major universities, and by the governing bodies for smaller universities and colleges. This sport is played on a rectangular field of the dimensions of about 64m (meters) - 70m sideline to sideline (width), and 100m - 110m goal line to goal line (length).

Duquesne University Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded by members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Duquesne first opened its doors as the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost in October 1878 with an enrollment of 40 students and a faculty of six. In 1911, the college became the first Catholic university-level institution in Pennsylvania. It is the only Spiritan institution of higher education in the world. It is named for an 18th-century governor of New France, Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville.

He also played with the Cleveland Internationals in the USL Premier Development League in 2006. [1]

Cleveland Internationals association football club

Cleveland Internationals was an American soccer team based in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Founded in 2004, the team played in the USL Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Great Lakes Division of the Central Conference. The franchise folded at the end of the 2010 season and left the league thereafter.

Professional

Varga turned professional in 2008 when he signed with the Pittsburgh Riverhounds upon their return to the USL Second Division. He made his professional debut on April 25, 2008 in a 3-0 defeat to Crystal Palace Baltimore, [2] and was the 'Hounds first choice keeper throughout the year.

USL Second Division defunct American soccer league

The United Soccer Leagues Second Division was a professional men's soccer league in the United States, part of the United Soccer Leagues (USL) league pyramid. It was at the third tier of soccer in the United States, behind Major League Soccer and the USL First Division, and one step up from the USL Premier Development League and other leagues in the fourth tier.

Crystal Palace Baltimore association football club

Crystal Palace Baltimore was an American professional soccer team based in Baltimore, Maryland, US. Founded in 2006, the club was originally named Crystal Palace USA and was affiliated with English side Crystal Palace.

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References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-05. Retrieved 2009-12-14.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-06-18. Retrieved 2009-09-27.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
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