Over the past few weeks, students have filled Ackerman Union, worshipping their favorite European soccer teams and international players competing in Union of European Football Associations Champions League. Read more...
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Third-year history student Alex Yi has returned to UCLA to complete his degree after playing on the Bruin men’s soccer team from 2000 to 2001. Yi has also begun a coaching career with the Los Angeles Galaxy youth teams.
courtesy of Jason”ˆMinnick
The UCLA men's soccer team announced its recruiting class of 2011 Monday. Read more...
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The incoming recruiting class is comprised of four recruits mainly because the Bruins lost only two seniors.
The UCLA men's soccer team's season came to an abrupt halt Saturday night when the Bruins lost a nine-goal thriller of a quarterfinal match on the road to the top-seeded Louisville Cardinals 5-4. Read more...
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Junior midfielder Eder Arreola opened the scoring for UCLA against Louisville, but the Bruins fell 5-4 to the Cardinals after a Louisville goal in the 90th minute.
As the UCLA men's soccer team prepares for a cross-country flight to Kentucky for Saturday's showdown with Louisville in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament, the team is looking at the past to remind itself that it has been in similar situations before. Last year, the team's season abruptly ended at the very same juncture where the Bruins presently find themselves. Read more...
On a frigid Sunday night at Drake Stadium, the UCLA men's soccer team found itself on the brink of being taken to penalty kicks, with its third-round NCAA Tournament match against the Dartmouth Big Green knotted at one goal apiece. Indeed, 109 minutes had passed in the match, and all the Bruins had to show for their 19 shots was a solitary first-half goal by junior midfielder Eder Arreola. Read more...
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Eder Arreola scored the game winner to lead UCLA past Dartmouth 2-1.
The NCAA men's soccer tournament has already had its dramatic moments, as half the teams that advanced past the second round did so in either overtime or on penalty kicks. Read more...
It was a tale of two halves for the UCLA men's soccer team on Sunday night, as it hosted Sacramento State in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The Bruins started off apprehensively and were kept on the defensive side right off the bat, with the Hornets firing off four shots during the first 12 minutes. After halftime, however, it was as if a brand new squad had taken the field, as the Bruins (15-4-1) scored four goals en route to a 4-1 thrashing of the Hornets (11-5-7). "At the beginning of the game, I think our guys were a little bit nervous," coach Jorge Salcedo said. Read more...
