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PSC's Select Team return home after a successful Turkey tour

FEBRUARY 2012


PSC's Select Team return home after a successful Turkey tour
 

 
PSC’s Select team of American professional & college players have returned home
from their 12 day showcase tour in Belek, Turkey.

PSC’s elite team consisting of professional & college players from the USA arrived at their 5 star sport resort hotel in Belek ,Turkey on the 26th January 2012 and played a total of six Exhibition games against professional teams from various countries.

The PSC team was led by professional coaches Paul Taylor (Walsall FC) and Guy Newman (former MLS coach with Kansas City Wizards) and recorded 5 win and 1 defeat during the tour.

“I think overall the 12 days went very excellently. The players seemed to get more confident game by game and it showed in their performances. We had a good performance and an unlucky defeat in our first game after only a day of training together, then after this we won all five games against some excellent professional teams. Coming up against quality sides definitely was a great experience for the boys,” said Paul Taylor.

PSC’s licensed player agent Mark Taylor added, “the quality the players showed during the tour did not go unnoticed and we are currently speaking to clubs from Norway, Denmark and China who have a serious interest in many of the players in our squad. In fact we expect to announce a deal for one of the players to Danish Super Ligaen team HB Koge in the coming days”.

The 2012 squad roster included:
Troy Hernandez
Dan Williams
Shawn Nicklaw
Brennan Tennelle
Kevin Butler
Yahaya Musa
Troy Cole
Ryan O’Neil
Michael Mesle
Michael Reed
Garry Lewis
Mike Palacio
Chuck Chijindu
Chris Akwaja
Mike Piechota
Greg Piechota
Davis Delamarter
Cole Dimond


After arriving on the evening of 26th January, PSC’s select team had a double training session on 27th January before playing 6 Exhibition games during the space of 11 days. All match reports and photos can be found on our FACEBOOK page. The results of our games can be found below: -

28 Jan 2012 PSC V Hungarian Players Union Select Team of Free Players Lost 0-1
30 Jan 2012 PSC v FC Suyoye (Holland) Won 6-0
31 Jan 2012 PSC v Dila Gori (Georgia Premier League) Won 1-0
2 Feb 2012 PSC v Beijing IT (China 2nd Division) Won 3-0
3 Feb 2012 PSC v VfB Auerbach (Germany 4th Division) Won 3-0
6 Feb 2012 PSC v Africa Select Team (Free players) Won 4-1


As a result of our tour, Shawn Nicklaw signed a 2-year contract with HB Koge of the Danish Premier League (who also offered summer trials for another one of our players), Cole Dimond was invited to train with FK Fredrikstad of the Norwegian Premier League, Chinese 2nd Division team Beijing IT expressed an interest in striker Chuck Chijindu (an unfortunate injury put pay to this deal), a Norwegian 2nd Division team made an offer that was turned down by one of our players and three members of the squad signed with NASL/USL-Pro clubs in the after these US clubs were given game DVD’s showing the players’ impressive performances in the above games.