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Cougar soccer takes Ft. Steilacoom, 2-1
By Julie Miller
Of The Print
This is going to be a tough
year for Soccer Coach Marty
Neshvad. There are only three
returning players and accor­
ding to Coach Neshvad only
one has good college playing
experience.
The team players are Ryan
Zook at Goalie. The back up
Goalie and Mid fielder is
Kevin Gratiot. Randy
Branlund is the team Sweeper
and Jeff White holds the Full
back position. There are two
center backs, Kevin Miller and
Tim Choquette and at left
back is Beau Campbell.
The three midfielders are
Steve Enos, Jim Ross and
Erich Pfeifer. Criss Pfeifer
and Tim Kay are the center
forwards. Jeff Abbot is also
on the team, but due to an in­
jury at the first practice Abott
has been unable to play. The
team also has a new player,
Rudolfo Monge of Costa
Rica.
The team’s record for the
season is 1-2, with one tie. The
tie game was played Oct. 2
against Lower Columbia.
“We were losing 2-0, but we
came back in the second half
to tie the game,” Coach
Neshvad said. He added the
team played well against
Lower Columbia, but not as
well against Spokane Com­
munity College. “It was our
first league game and we just
couldn’t put the ball on target.
CCC’S TIM CHOQUETTE prepares for an attempt on goal against Everett.
We missed a lot of oppor­ the game were because of ex­ Tim Choquette and Tim Kay.
tunities,” Coach Neshvad haustion and depression due
Chris Pfeifer, one of the
center forwards added, “We
said.
to the lack of substitutes.
The next game the Cougars “They (Everett) scored first,
came off an emotional high
played was against Everett then we came back in the next
game at Lower Columbia. It
Community College where the 30 seconds to tie the game.
took a lot out of us. We were
final score was 3-1 in favor of After that we felt confident
not really physically prepared
Everett.
but when they scored two con­ for Everett. There was only
According to some of the secutive goals we started to
one sub, so most of us played
players the reasons they-lost feel the fatigue,” said players the whole game!”
Photos by Dan Wheeler
Wednesday
Oct.
9
Clackamas defeated Fort
Steilacoom, a team that had
beaten Clackamas 0-5 in a pre­
season tournament, 2-1.
Saturday
Oct.
12,
Clackamas played and lost
0-10 to Green River Com­
munity College. Coach
Neshvad blames this loss to
fatigue and injury.
Coach sets ‘mission \ to save soccer
By Julie Miller
Of The Print
Marty Neshvad, formerly of
Tehran, Iran, is Clackamas’
new Soccer Coach. Neshvad
has been living in the U.S. for
15 years.
Neshvad was introduced to
Soccer at an early age in
Tehran and has been playing
the game ever since. In 1970 he
played for a National Youth
MARTY NESHVAD
Soccer Team and he competed
for the National Asian Youth Georgia for four years while
attending school for two. He
Championship in Thailand.
When Neshvad first came to then moved to Portland where
the U.S., he lived in Chicago he graduated from Portland
for a year, then moved to State University. He has a
Alabama where he went to Bachelor’s of Science and a
Snead College for one year, Master’s in Physical Educa­
then moved to Atlanta, tion.
Since Portland State has no
soccer team, Neshvad played
on a local club team and was
active in coaching youth
leagues and working in sum­
mer soccer camps.
Jerry Renfro, Neshvad’s
friend from Gladstone, in­
the same time the head coach
position at the College opened
up.
While at the College,
Neshvad will also coach Mens’
Tennis. He is also planning to
teach a youth coaching class
“American soccer is in bad shape. ”
formed him of an opening for
a soccer coach at Gladstone
High School. Neshvad work­
ed as assistant junior varsity
coach there for one year. Then
Renfro advised Neshvad to
consider a head coach position
at a high school. However, at
for parents and he hopes to
have an indoor winter soccer
class and an outdoor class in
the spring.
Because of his love for the
game of soccer, Neshvad said
he feels it is his mission to do
his best to teach the game as he
feels it should be played.
“American soccer is in bad
shape,” Neshvad said. “Part­
ly it is the fan’s attitudes that
are at fault. They get very
negative and violent. They on­
ly want their team to win. I
think that the general attitude
coming from the media is that
soccer needs to change. Either
to change the rules or to at
least modify them.
“I want to do a good job here
and I hope to have a good
quality program,” he said. “I
want to complete my mission
and save the sport by saving
the soccer program here at
Clackamas. If we don’t do the
job, they will cut the
program.”