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UCLA MEN’S SOCCER UCLA Athletic Communications / J.D. Morgan Center / 325 Westwood Plaza / Los Angeles, CA 90095 / (310) 825-8664 Men’s Soccer Contact: Andrew Wagner ([email protected]) UCLA’S LEADING SCORERS (2018) UCLA (0-0-0) vs. Northwestern (0-0-0) No. Player GP GS G A Pts GWG Friday, Aug. 30, 2019 – 2:00 p.m. (PT) 17 Matt Hundley 19 14 5 7 17 2 Bloomington, Ind. (Bill Armstrong Stadium) 10 Mohammed Kamara 14 11 5 1 11 2 7 Milan Iloski 13 11 3 2 8 2 GAME INFORMATION 24 Frankie Amaya 14 10 2 2 6 0 Venue: Bill Armstrong Stadium (6,500) 5 Brandon Terwege 19 19 2 0 4 0 Kickoff Time: 2:00 p.m. PT 8 Anderson Asiedu 18 17 1 2 4 0 Live Stats: UCLABruins.com vs. 9 Santiago Herrera 15 11 2 0 4 1 TV: Big Ten Network+ (Subscription required) 4 Erik Holt 19 19 0 3 3 0 Twitter: @UCLAMSoccer 14 Eric Iloski 17 17 0 3 3 0 0-0-0 0-0-0 25 Joab Santoyo 18 18 1 1 3 0 All-Time Series: First meeting 3 Alex Knox 15 2 0 2 2 0 11 Kike Poleo 11 2 1 0 2 1 18 Robert Knights 4 0 1 0 2 0 21 Cody Sundquist 7 0 1 0 2 1 28 Matthew Powell 19 19 1 0 2 1 UCLA (0-0-0) vs. No. 2 Indiana (0-0-0) 19 Blayne Martinez 13 1 0 1 1 0 Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019 – 5:00 p.m. (PT) Bloomington, Ind. (Bill Armstrong Stadium) 2019 SCHEDULE GAME INFORMATION August Venue: Bill Armstrong Stadium (6,500) Fri. 30 vs. Northwestern (neutral) BTN+ 2 PM Kickoff Time: 5:00 p.m. PT Live Stats: UCLABruins.com vs. September TV: Big Ten Network+ (Subscription required) Twitter: @UCLAMSoccer Sun. 1 at No. 2 Indiana BTN+ 5 PM 0-0-0 0-0-0 Fri. 6 Maryland P12N 7 PM All-Time Series: UCLA trails 8-10-0 Mon. 9 Georgetown P12N 5 PM Bruins prevailed 1-0 in OT in last meeting (2013) Sun. 15 at CSUN 6 PM Thu. 19 at Oregon State* P12N 7 PM Sun. 22 at Washington* P12N 4 PM UCLA OPENS 2019 SEASON WITH THE IU/ADIDAS CREDIT UNION CLASSIC Thu. 26 UC Irvine P12N 7 PM The UCLA men’s soccer team will begin the 2019 regular season on the road this weekend, playing a pair of matches as part of the IU/Adidas Credit Union Classic in Bloomington, Ind. The Bruins open tourney play with a neutral match October against Northwestern on Friday, Aug. 30 at 2:00 p.m. PT in the first-ever matchup between the two schools. UCLA Tue. 1 UC Riverside P12N 7 PM will then face No. 2-ranked and tournament host Indiana on Sunday at 5:00 p.m. PT. Both games will be streamed live on Big Ten Network+, which requires a subscription to gain access. Stream and live stats links for both games Sun. 6 San Diego State* P12N 5 PM are available on the UCLABruins.com men’s soccer schedule page. Thu. 10 Stanford* P12N 8 PM UCLA IN SEASON OPENERS Sun. 13 California* P12N 4 PM The Bruins are 38-8-6 all-time in season-openers for the years in which results are available. UCLA is unbeaten in Thu. 17 San Diego P12N 7 PM six consecutive season openers, last falling to New Mexico to begin the 2012 campaign. The Bruins have opened on Thu. 24 Washington* P12N 5 PM the road five times in the last 11 years, going 4-1-0 in those contests. UCLA has scored at least four goals in each of its last two season openers, winning 5-3 on the road at San Francisco in 2017 and blanking Coastal Carolina 4-0 Sun. 27 Oregon State* P12N 3 PM in 2018. Thu. 31 at California* P12N 4 PM IN THE RANKINGS November UCLA enters the 2019 campaign receiving votes in the United Soccer Coaches national preseason poll and College Soccer News preseason poll. Sun. 3 at Stanford* P12N 3 PM Sat. 16 at San Diego State* 7 PM RYAN JORDEN ERA BEGINS THIS WEEKEND This weekend marks not just the beginning of the 2019 season, but the official start of the Ryan Jorden era at UCLA. Thu. 21 NCAA First Round Formerly the head coach at Pacific and Cal Baptist, Jorden was tabbed to take over the program in late April by UCLA Sun. 24 NCAA Second Round Director of Athletics Dan Guerrero. Jorden oversaw the revival of Pacific’s dormant men’s soccer program in 2013, Sat. 30 NCAA Third Round and turned them into one of the top programs on the west coast. Only Stanford and Jorden’s Pacific squad made it to the second round of the NCAA Tournament in each of the last three seasons. The Santa Barbara, Calif. native also December helmed Cal Baptist to NCCAA National Championships in 2011 and 2012. He was a student-athlete at Westmont from 1991-1994, serving as an assistant coach with the Warriors from 2000-2007. He is the 11th head coach in Fri. 6 NCAA Quarterfinals UCLA men’s soccer program history. Fri. 13 College Cup Semifinals (Cary, N.C.) POWELL TABBED TO PRESEASON ALL-PAC-12 TEAM Sun. 15 College Cup Final (Cary, N.C.) Redshirt senior midfielder/defender Matthew Powell was named to the 2019 Preseason All-Pac-12 Team ahead of the new season. Powell was one of just three defenders to make the conference’s preseason Best XI. The Castro UCLA ON SOCIAL MEDIA Valley, Calif. native was an All-Pac-12 second team choice in 2018 after receiving an all-conference honorable mention as a sophomore in 2017. A mainstay of the defensive corps last year, Powell was one of just three Bruins to Men’s Soccer Twitter: @UCLAMSoccer start all 19 of the team’s games. Spending time at both center back and holding mid, Powell played the full 90 in all Men’s Soccer Instagram: @UCLAMSoccer but three games and ended the year with 1,670 minutes of action, third-most on the team. Men’s Soccer Facebook: /UCLAMSoccer PRESEASON IN BRIEF UCLA Athletics Twitter: @UCLAAthletics UCLA was a combined 2-0-0 in preseason play, posting shutout wins over NAIA-member Westmont and Omaha. The Bruins began exhibition action with a 3-0 home decision over Montecito, Calif.-based Westmont. Marcony Pimentel UCLA Athletics Instagram: @UCLAAthletics opened the scoring in the first half, followed by a second-half PK conversion from Milan Iloski and a late third tally from Jefferson Alade. Eric Iloski potted the lone goal in a 1-0 road win at Omaha. The Bruins posted a 4-0 aggregate #GoBruins scoreline in the two preseason scrimmages. 2019 UCLA MEN’S SOCCER UNITED SOCCER COACHES POLL (PRESEASON) JEFFERSON ALADE INCLUDED ON TOP DRAWER’S PRESEASON FRESHMAN BEST XI UCLA freshman forward Jefferson Alade was tabbed to the TopDrawerSoccer Preseason Freshman Best XI before the start of the new season. He was one of just three forwards listed among the XI. A product of the Vancouver Whitecaps RK TEAM (1st place votes) ‘18 REC. PREV Academy, Alade scored 36 goals over 83 career games with the club. He saw his productivity go up as he got older, 1 Maryland (13) 13-6-4 1 culminating in a career-high 15 scores last year in 31 games. He was a three-star recruit per TopDrawer. 2 Indiana (6) 20-3-1 3 3 Akron (2) 15-7-2 2 2018 IN REVIEW 4 Wake Forest (4) 18-3-0 6 The Bruins posted a 10-9-0 overall record last year, qualifying for the 2018 NCAA Tournament as an at-large team. 5 Stanford University 12-4-5 7 The Bruins were eliminated in the first round in a road contest at Portland. The Bruins were 5-5-0 in Pac-12 play, 6 North Carolina (2) 14-4-1 14 good for fourth place in the conference. UCLA was 4-1-0 at one point in conference action, but closed the season by 7 Michigan State 14-5-4 4 losing four of five against league foes. Top scorers included Matt Hundley (17 points), Mohammed Kamara (11), and 8 Kentucky 19-2-1 5 Milan Iloski (8), who missed the early part of the season due to an emergency appendectomy. The Bruins had two 9 Notre Dame 11-7-3 8 players selected in the 2019 MLS SuperDraft, including No. 1 overall pick Frankie Amaya, who went to FC Cincinnati. 10 Duke 11-7-2 11 Midfielder Anderson Asiedu was selected 24th overall by Atlanta. 11 Saint Mary’s 18-0-2 9 LAST TIME OUT 12 Virginia 10-4-3 15 UCLA and Indiana last faced each other in 2013, also part of the season-opening IU Tournament, with the Bruins 13 Georgetown 13-5-3 13 emerging victorious via a 91st minute overtime golden goal from then-senior forward Victor Chavez. The win came 14 Louisville 11-5-3 16 despite UCLA playing the final 15 minutes of regulation a man down, with Indiana entering the season as the No. 15 UCF 13-3-3 18 1-ranked team in the country. Chavez scored just 49 seconds into overtime, receiving a through ball in the box from 16 Virginia Tech 11-7-3 17 Victor Munoz before rounding the IU keeper and finishing into an open net.