Thursday, February 26, 1998
Men’s Soccer Briefs
The UCLA men’s soccer team, after an incredible NCAA 1997
championship title season, has nabbed one of the top recruits in
the United States, National Team member Ryan Futagaki.
Futagaki, a 5-foot-5-inch midfielder from Fountain Valley High
School, is a member of UCLA head coach Sigi Schmid’s U.S. Under-20
National Team pool.
At Fountain Valley, he was a two-time All-CIF selection who
twice led his team to the CIF Division I title game. In 1996-97,
after scoring 15 goals and 22 assists, he was named first-team
all-league for the third consecutive year, as well as first-team
all-county by the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register.