MCCC Soccer: Home to the World

MCCC has become the home for international soccer players.  For years, it was just the men’s program that had players from all over the world, but the women’s program now has an international feel to it as well.  Of the women’s team’s 18 players, 13 are international.  Five players are from Germany, two from Brazil and two from England.  Other countries represented on the Mercer roster include: Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland.

 

The five German players are Sarah Kircher (Celle), Laura Kucharz (Singen), Anna Maringer (Asperg), Linnea Rameil (Lennestadt) and Eva Sturm (Berlin). The two players from Brazil are Luana Nascimiento (Cariacica) and Ana Pacheco (Florianopolis) and two from England Louise Stritch (Preston Lancashire) and Francecsa Wright (Beccles).

 

Other international players include Fiona Madigan (Dublin, Ireland), Julia Fillat Ferrer (Barcelona, Spain), Celina Oliveira (Ancara, Portugal), and Samira Spirig (Volketswil, Switzerland).

 

Kircher, Kucharz, Madigan, Maringer, Nascimiento, and Oliveira all have returned for a second season at MCCC.

 

The five American players on Mercer’s women’s roster are: Mia Belton (Mount Holly), Maddie Harrison (Hamilton), Sierra Mitchell (Ewing), Marilyn Orellana (South River) and Vanessa Quijano (Hamilton).

 

Whether from the US or another country, the MCCC women’s soccer team has come together for a 10-1-1 season and received votes in the latest NJCAA Division II national poll.

 

Mercer’s men’s soccer team features players from fifteen different countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, South Africa and the United States.

 

The country total moves up to 17 with two of its players who attended high school in the US, but are from other countries: Alou Gamby (Mali) and Dmytro Naum (Ukraine).  Cesar Zuniga is from Clifton, NJ.

 

MCCC men's soccer has four players from Spain: Manuel Alonso (A Caruna), Adrian and Daniel Franco (Madrid), and Elias Ramos (Telde), three from Japan: Takuri Hirose (Minuma-Ku), Higen Noguchipinto (Tukubamirai) and Riku Yasuda (Ogaki-City); three from Brazil: Joao Delgado (Sao Paolo), Henrique Franza (Sao Leopoldo) and Joao Lourenco (Belo Horizonte), three from Italy: Nassim Carpio (Parma), Francesco Quintavalla (Parma), and Federico Spinola (Bareggio), three from Germany: Deniz Karcher (Heidenheim), Phillip Owczarek (Landshut) and Bastian Strunck (Weingarten) and two from Colombia: Santiago Oliveras (Bogota) and Camilo Osorio (Manizales).

 

Additional international players on the MCCC men's squad this season include: Bercel Ban (Piliscaba, Hungary), Carlos Cuellar (Manta, Ecuador), Lesedi Hlabeli (Guateng, South Africa), Dylan Maher (Wicklow, Ireland), Torin Mitchell (Aberdeen, Scotland), Diego Orquiz (Chihuahua, Mexico), Ignacio Pacheco (Cordoba, Argentina) and Jesse Van Den Berg (Rhoon, Netherlands).

 

Returning players for MCCC men’s soccer are Delgado, Hlabeli, Lourenco, Mitchell, Owczarek, Quintavalla, Ramos and Strunck.

 

The cities and countries the Mercer men’s and women’s soccer teams are from show that it doesn’t matter where you are from, MCCC can be your home.

 

For the latest on Mercer women’s soccer, visit:  https://www.mccc.edu/athletics_women_soccer.shtml

 

For more information on MCCC men’s soccer, visit:  https://www.mccc.edu/athletics_men_soccer.shtml

 

For for MCCC as an international student athletes interested in attending MCCC, visit the following link:  https://www.mccc.edu/pdf/athletics/Internation-SA-info-letter.pdf

 

 

  Women's soccer player Fiona Madigan is from Ireland

Men's soccer player Lesedi Hlabeli is from South Africa

 

Men's soccer players Joao Delgado and Joao Lourenco are from Brazil

 

Women's soccer Celina Oliveira is from Portugal

 

 Men's soccer player Torin Mitchell is from Scotland