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Club notes: Prpa wins national championship with Chicago Magic PSG

07/27/2015, 6:30pm CDT
By ERIC ANDERSON
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Wind Lake's Luka Prpa (Muskego) accepted an invitation to play for the Chicago Magic PSG Pre-Academy team last week and ended up winning a national championship.

Prpa scored the third goal as Magic PSG beat Virginia's Arlington Impact Red 4-1 in the Under-17 boys final Sunday at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships in Tulsa, Okla.

Magic PSG – coached by Bato Radoncic, who played for the Milwaukee Wave in the Major Arena Soccer League last winter – went 2-0-1 to win Group B, outscoring opponents 7-0 in the process, then beat Maryland's Baltimore Celtic 2-0 in the semifinals Saturday.

The Impact, who tied Magic PSG 0-0 in group play, became the first team to score on the Chicago side and took the lead in the 8th minute of the final. But Magic PSG scored in the 23rd and 32nd minutes to take the lead, Prpa made it 3-1 in the 80th minute and another goal in stoppage time sealed the victory.

Prpa, who was part of the Magic PSG Under-15/16 team that finished third in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy last season, has been in the U.S. Under-17 Residency Program in Florida and finished the spring season with the Chicago club's Under-17/18 Development Academy side.

  • Midfielder Nathan Feiner and defender Zach Landt, teammates on the New Richmond High School team, were part of the team from Minnesota club Sporting St. Croix that finished 1-2-0 in group play in the Under-16 boys competition.
  • University of Wisconsin forward Mark Segbers and his St. Louis Scott Gallagher side lost to New York's Massapequa Arsenal 3-1 in the Under-19 boys final Saturday night. Scott Gallagher went 2-0-1 and finished first among the four teams in round-robin play, including a 1-0 victory over Massapequa Arsenal.
  • Forward Rachel Johnson, who has verbally committed to Marquette for 2017, was part of the Gretna Prima Green team that outlasted Idaho's FC Nova Nationals 4-1 on penalties following a 0-0 draw in Saturday's Under-19 girls final. Gretna Prima Green is the first Nebraska team to win a U.S. Youth Soccer national title.
  • Incoming Marquette freshman striker Jamie Kutey and the KC Metro Dynamos lost to California's DMCV Sharks Elite 5-1 in the Under-18 girls semifinals on Saturday. Kutey scored two goals as the Kansas side went 2-0-1 in group play.
  • Muskego's Rade Novakovich, Prpa's cousin, played with the Chicago Magic Under-15 team at the U.S. Club Soccer National Premier Leagues Finals earlier this month in Westfield, Ill. Novakovich scored and had another shot cleared off the line as Magic PSG tied Arizona's SC Del Sol Leebrook 2-2 in its group finale July 11, but missed advancing to the semifinals on a tiebreaker.
  • FC Wisconsin Eclipse midfielder Payton Wesley (Hartland Arrowhead), who has verbally committed to play for UW in 2016, was selected to participate in the Nike National Training Camp from Tuesday through Saturday in Beaverton, Ore. The camp, a joint venture between the Elite Clubs National League and U.S. Club Soccer, includes approximately 80 of the top girls players born in 1997, 1998 and 1999.

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