PSP’s Best of 2016
A remarkable rookie, a human highlight reel for a goalkeeper, and an amateur team that kept on winning. Here it is: The best of Philadelphia soccer in 2016.
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Annual Awards
Roster News
Steel sign center back Hugh Roberts
Steel sign 2016 USL All-League First Team defender and Defender of the Year finalist.
SEPA Soccer Hall of Fame
Coats for Chester drive delivers over 2,100 coats
Annual coat drive distributed more than 2,100 coats to three social service agencies in Chester.
Roster News
Steel re-sign James Chambers
Bethlehem secure the Irish midfielder “to a multi-year contract.”
Roster News
Steel permanently acquire Cory Burke
The Jamaican international joins Bethlehem on a permanent basis after being with the team on loan from Rivoli United in the 2016 season.
Philadelphia Union II
The Bethlehem theory of interchangeable parts
Continuing PSP’s review of Bethlehem’s season, Tim Jones looks at the Bethlehem-Philadelphia template of interchangeable parts to gauge whether it’s working.
Feature / Philadelphia Union II
Brendan Burke on Bethlehem Steel lessons learned
Bethlehem went from being a mid-table team getting hot in July to a 12-game season-ending winless streak. Head coach Brendan Burke talked to PSP to reflect on the season, the lessons learned from it, and how that could impact Bethlehem going forward.
SEPA Soccer Hall of Fame
Seventh annual Coats for Chester program now underway
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Soccer Hall of Fame’s “Coats for Chester” program has the goal of collecting 2,500 coats in its seventh year.
Roster News
Bethlehem Steel parts ways with four players
Bethlehem has released Jamie Luchini, Gabe Gissie, Nick Bibbs, and Fred.
Philadelphia Union II
The next wave of potential Union Academy breakthroughs
Auston Trusty and Derrick Jones blazed the trail. Now PSP’s Tim Jones takes a look at the wave of Philadelphia Union youth prospects bubbling up through the academy to Bethlehem Steel.
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