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2020-21 SCHEDULE & RESULTS BACK-TO-BACK AMERICAN REGULAR SEASON CHAMPIONS FEBRUARY FRIDAY, APR. 2, 2021 • 6:00 P.M. ET 6 TULSA # L, 1-0 ORLANDO, FLA. • UCF SocceR COMPLEX 13 at Temple # W, 1-0 SERIES HIstoRY: 5-8-6 20 SOUTH FLORIDA # L, 2-1 27 at Tulsa # L, 3-1 RV RV MARCH 6 MEMPHIS # W, 2-1 13 at #9 SMU # W, 2-0 20 TEMPLE # W, 4-0 27 at South Florida # W, 1-0 APRIL 2 SMU # 6 P.M. UCF KNIGHTS SMU MUSTANGS 9 at Memphis # 8 P.M. 4-3-0 4-3-0 Last Season (Ovr.) 15-3-2 Last Season (Ovr.) 18-2-1 POSTSEASON 6-0-1 Last Season (Conf.) 5-1-1 AAC Tournament (Hosted at #1 Seed) Last Season (Conf.) 15 SEMIFINALS TBD Head Coach Scott Calabrese Head Coach Kevin Hudson 17 FINAL TBD NCAA Tournament? Yes, Sweet 16 NCAA Tournament? Yes, Elite Eight LAST TIME OUT: SERIES HISTORY NCAA Tournament • UCF took their rivals of South Florida to double LAST 10 MEETINGS Dates TBD OT last week and came away with a 1-0 win. All-Time Series: 8-5-6 SMU 3/13/21 A W 2-0 • The game winner came via a free kick which was All caps & bold indicates home match 11/30/19 NCAA Tour. L 2-1 (OT) served in by Anderson Rosa. It was a beautiful ball 11/16/19 AAC. Tour. L 1-0 All regular season matchups televised on ESPN+ leading directly to goal, where Yoni Sorokin was 10/6/19 A T 3-3 (2OT) # - AAC Regular Season Match able to squeeze between two defenders and head 11/10/18 AAC. Tour. T 0-0 (5-4 SMU PK) 9/26/18 H W 2-0 the ball home. 11/12/17 AAC Tour. L 2-1 (OT) • Oettl recorded his 4th shutout of the season. It 9/29/17 A L 2-1 was his third straight clean sheet this season. 10/1/16 H W 1-0 10/2/15 A L 2-1 KNIGHT NOTES SO...WE MEET AGAIN • The Knights will face the Mustangs again for the second time in less than a month after their last match was a 2-0 win for UCF on March 13. • This isn’t the first time the two teams have met in that short of a span. The two met in the AAC Tournament and NCAA Tournament just two weeks apart from each other in 2019. • UCF snapped a four-match winless streak against SMU with the 2-0 win earlier this season. OFFENSIVE ONSLAUGHT SOCIAL KNIGHTS • The Black and Gold are outscoring their opponents 9-1 during their four-match winning streak. Twitter: UCF_MSoccer • UCF has been in the top 50 in shot attempts per match, shots on goal and corners but weren’t able Instagram: UCF.MSoccer to find goals early on. That has certainly changed now. Facebook: /UCFMensSoccer • The Knights tallied nine goals in March as opposed to just three in February. • The Black and Gold are 25th in the the nation (2nd in conference) in shots on goal per game with a UCF Athletics: UCFKnights 6.38 mark and tied for 37th (2nd in conference) in shots per game with a 13.38 clip. UCF is tied for 14th Hashtag: #ChargeOn in corner kicks per game, averaging exactly 7.00 a match. Website www.ucfknights.com • The Knights put up similar numbers last season. The Black and Gold ranked at 22nd in SOG per UCF, NOT CENTRAL FLORIDA match (6.60) in 2019 and 8th in shot attempts per match with 16.5. Please refer to the University of Central Florida as UCF, not Central Florida, on ELITE ‘KEEPING • Yannik Oettl is among the nation’s elite goalkeepers and is proving it in just six matches played this all references. Also, UCF is no longer the season. He has recorded four shutouts this season, including three consecutive. “Golden Knights” and instead simply known •He ranks 9th in the country in save percentage with a mark of .903 on the campaign. He’s 18th in as the “Knights.” the nation in clean sheets, 15th in saves per game and 44th in total saves. He is on pace to shatter his STANDINGS personal best save percentage for a season which was .778 in 2018. 2020-21 AMERICAN • He is climbing the ladder in multiple cateogories of UCF’s record book. He is now alone in 4th all- The American Overall time at UCF in shutouts and recently passed Sean Johnson for 6th in career saves at UCF. He currently W L T PTS. W L T % Strk. sits with the third best goals allowed average in Knights history at 1.02. Tulsa 5 1 1 16 5 1 1 .786 W3 • Oettl has earned three straight nods as the conference’s Goalkeeper of the Week, tallying 18 saves UCF 5 3 0 15 5 3 0 .625 W4 and three clean sheets over the past two matches. He has stopped 28 of 31 shots this season. SMU 4 3 0 12 4 3 0 .571 L1 THE FIRST 15’ South Fla. 4 4 0 12 4 4 0 .500 L2 • The first 15 minutes over the past two seasons for the Knights have been critical in deciding matches. Temple 2 4 1 7 2 4 1 .357 L1 • This season, UCF is 5-0-0 when holding the opponent scoreless over that time frame and 0-3-0 when allowing a goal in the first 15’ Memphis 1 6 0 3 1 6 0 .143 L5 • Last season (2019), the Black and Gold were 7-0-1 when scoring inside the 15 minute mark. • UCF is 1-0-0 when tallying a goal in that time frame in 2020-21. The Knights are 5-0-0 this year when *Clinched berth in AAC postseason tournament scoring the first goal of the match. Top four teams make the postseason conference tournament, hosted at venue of top seeded team at the end of the regular season HOW THE TABLE HAS TURNED Standings determined by American Athletic Conference points/record. • The Knights have a chance to earn the top spot in the conference table with two matches to go. • Despite the slow 1-3 start from UCF, they still have a chance to get to the top of the table by season’s end. The Knights are looking to defend their back-to-back regular season titles. more notes on page 3 2020-21 UCF MEN’S SOCCER MATCH NOTES QUICK FACTS 2020-21 NUMERICAL ROSTER GENERAL INFORMATION # Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Cl. Hometown School Name: University of Central Florida Location: Orlando, Fla. 1 Yannik Oettl GK 6-2 203 Sr. Munich, Germany Founded: 1963 2 Lenny Cidolit D 6-0 167 Fr. Montpellier, France Enrollment 71,000+ 3 Anderson Rosa D 5-10 160 Fr. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Nickname: Knights 4 Andres Hernandez Betancur D 5-10 152 Jr. San Jose, Costa Rica Colors: Black and Gold 5 Gideon Adu-Peprah D 5-9 157 Jr. Manchester, England Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: American Athletic Conference, The American 6 Yanis Leerman D 6-1 173 Jr. Troyes, France President: Dr. Alexander Cartwright 7 Gino Vivi F 5-7 140 So. San José, Costa Rica Athletics Director: Terry Mohajir 8 Yoni Sorokin M 5-11 174 Sr. Jerusalem, Israel Athletics Department Phone: (407) 823-3213 9 Jonas Schmalbach F 6-2 176 So. Venice, Italy Athletics Website: www.UCFKnights.com UCF men’s soccer on social media: 10 Louis Perez M 5-11 180 Sr. Villennes Sur Seine, France Facebook /UCFMensSoccer 11 Hattabiou Barry F 5-9 170 Sr. Paris, France Twitter @UCF_MSoccer 12 Ariel Hadar M 5-8 164 Fr. Ra’anana, Israel Instagram @UCF.MSoccer 13 Josiah Ramirez M 5-6 151 RFr. Harrisburg, Penn. 14 Gianluca Arcangeli F 5-10 176 RSo. Sao Paulo, Brazil COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT Communications Assistant Ken Landis 16 Beto Ydrach M/D 6-0 178 RFr. Orlando, Fla. Email: [email protected] 17 Caleb Franke M 5-6 160 Jr. Orlando, Fla. Cell Phone: (954) 531-4322 18 Itzik Efraim D 5-11 204 Sr. Jerusalem, Israel Athletics Phone: (407) 823-4114 19 Andrew Lizyness M 5-9 151 RFr. Windermere, Fla. Ticket Office Phone: (407) 823-1000 Mailing Address: PO Box 163555 20 Mauricio Villalobos M 5-8 152 Jr. San Jose, Costa Rica Orlando, FL 32816 21 Brandon Golding F/D 5-9 158 RJr. Margate, Fla. Physical Address: Roth Athletics Center 22 Lucca Dourado F 5-10 174 Fr. Sao Paulo, Brazil 4192 North Orion Blvd. 23 Brennon Neff D 6-0 155 Fr. Lake Mary, Fla. Orlando, FL 32816 25 Matt Douglass GK 6-0 207 RSo. Clearwater, Fla. PROGRAM INFORMATION 26 Bernardo Brandao GK 6-1 180 RFr. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil First Year of Soccer 1975 (46th Season) 27 Tyler Lavigne GK 6-0 164 Fr. St. Cloud, Fla. First Year in Division I 1984 (37th Season) 28 Franco Loello F 5-4 166 Sr. Buenos Aires, Argentina First Year in The American 2013 (8th Season) 29 Jose Aldaco Jr. F 6-2 186 RFr. Lake Alfred, Fla. All-Time Record in Division I 306-273-66 (.526) All-Time Record 398-311-75 (.556) 32 Owen Guske M/D 6-0 174 Fr. Jacksonville, Fla. Record in The American: 41-37-14 (.522) Record in the NCAA Tournament: 4-7-0 (.364) COACHING STAFF Regular Season Championships in The American: 2 (‘18, ‘19) Head Coach: Scott Calabrese - 4th Season - Bryant ‘95 Tournament Championships in The American: 0 Paul Souders - 4th Season - Clemson ‘03 Conference Championships: 5 (Last 2019) Associate Head Coach: NCAA D-I Tournament Appearances: 7 (Last 2019) Assistant Coach: Jamie Davies - 3rd Season - William Woods ‘07 National Championships: 0 Goalkeeper Coach: Chris Konopka - 1st Season - Providence ‘06 2019 Overall Record 15-3-2 Director of Operations: Alex Gott - 1st Season - Eckerd ‘18 2019 The American Record 6-0-1 Athletic Trainer: Tessa McEvoy - 2nd Season VENUE INFORMATION Name: UCF Soccer Complex Capacity: 2,475 Surface: Grass HEAD COACH INFORMATION Head Coach: Scott Calabrese (Bryant ‘95) Record at UCF: 36-11-7 (.732) 3 seasons PRONUNCIATION GUIDE Career Record: 121-78-27 (.595) 12 seasons 2020-21 TEAM INFORMATION Gideon Adu-Peprah .....................................................................................Ah-doo Pep-ruh Newcomers/Returners 8/20 Jose Aldaco Jr.