Williamsburg International F.C.

Williamsburg International Football Club was founded in 2011 as "Doyle's Corner Football Club" in New York City. The club initially played in the weeknight leagues of Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn before joining the Cosmopolitan Soccer League in August 2013. The club plays home matches at Bushwick Inlet Park in the Fall and at McCarren Park in the Spring.

After winning the Metro 1 Division in the previous season, Williamsburg International will begin the 2017/2018 season in the CSL Division 2. Williamsburg will also field a team in the Division 2 Reserves.[2]

Having earned another promotion, this time to the Cosmopolitan Soccer League's Metro 1 Division, Williamsburg International kept rolling in their season opener against Lansdowne Bhoys Metro at Bushwick Inlet Park on September 11, 2016, winning 4-2. Kevin Ruppel got the first goal of the year and was aided by strikes from Mark Gallagher and Nicolas Mikolenko (2).

With a surge of interest in the club, Williamsburg International formed a second team to compete in the Cosmopolitan Soccer League's Metro 2 division. The side took on Flushing FC away at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park. Neither side could break through and the match finished in a 0-0 draw, Yann Micuta hit the post for the Doylies.

Williamsburg won the Metro 1 Division in the 2016/2017 season, earning promotion to CSL's Division 2 for the 2017/2018 season.[3]

With an influx of new teams, the Cosmopolitan Soccer League's Metro 2 Division was split into two groups of ten teams. Williamsburg International (WIFC) kicked off the 2015-2016 season on September 13, 2014 against rivals FC Partizani at Bushwick Inlet Park. The home team came away with a 7-3 victory to continue their undefeated streak in home openers. With only one tie and one loss in the run up to the Winter Break, WIFC found themselves in second position in the league. Following a tie with league Leaders BW Gottschee, WIFC finished the season with seven consecutive wins to clinch the Metro Division 2 West Conference.

In the final game of the season, WIFC faced off against the Metro Division 2 Western Conference Champions Shamrock 1960 SC. Through a Mark Gallagher goal and an Andreas Moudatsos brace, WIFC won the game 3-0 to be crowned the Metro Division 2 Champions.[4]

On September 9, 2014, Williamsburg International kicked off the 2014-2015 season with a resounding 5-2 victory over FC Partizani at Bushwick Inlet Park. Their winning ways continued in the following weeks with a 15-2 dismantling of Metro City Fury FC and a 10-2 drubbing of NY Galicia. The streak came to a grinding halt with a 2-1 loss to Barnstonworth Rovers Metro at the Red Hook Playground. After a rough stretch to start 2015, the team finished off the season with victories over SC Eintracht 5-2 at Randall's Island and over FC Partizani 4-1 at Staten Island's Greenbelt Recreational Center. The team finished the 2014-15 in eighth place in the Cosmopolitan Soccer League's Metro 2 Division.[5]

At the Cosmopolitan Soccer League's Annual Meeting in August 2015, Williamsburg International F.C. were awarded the Cosmopolitan Soccer League 2014-15 Metro 2 Division Fair Play Award for the second consecutive year.

On September 8, 2013, Williamsburg International played its first competitive match in the Cosmopolitan Soccer League's Metro 2 division. The Doylies came from behind to defeat Brishna 5-4 at Bushwick Inlet Park, with Andrew Hilland knocking in the winner in the closing minutes. An up and down Fall campaign was followed by a fantastic stretch of seven straight victories in the Spring. The team finished in fourth place with nine wins, five losses, and two draws in its first season.[6] The team's leading scorer on the season was Andreas Moudatsos, who finished with 11 goals in all competitions. Esteban Garcia led the team appearing in all 18 competitive matches, including both the State and League cup.

At the Cosmopolitan Soccer League's Annual Meeting in August 2014, Williamsburg International F.C. were awarded the Cosmopolitan Soccer League 2013-14 Metro 2 Division Fair Play Award.

Williamsburg International competes in the Strumpf Cup, Eastern New York State Soccer Association's Division 3 State tournament.

Williamsburg International competes in the Saunder's Cup, the Cosmopolitan Soccer League's second tier League tournament.

As of 9 April 2017[7]

Metro 1

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player -- DF Misha Carrel-Thomas -- GK John Erganian -- MF Mark Gallagher (captain) -- MF Esteban Garcia -- FW Sergio Garcia -- FW John Kaddo -- MF Nicolas Mikolenko -- MF Zach Mikolenko -- FW Andreas Moudatsos -- MF Nunzio Moudatsos -- MF Daniel Ochoa -- DF Sumeet Patel -- DF Jason Roos -- MF Kevin Ruppel -- MF Mark Schuber -- MF Gerald van den Berg

Metro 2

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player -- FW Arturo Bello -- DF Daniel Brown -- FW Bradley Boughton -- MF Richard Butterworth -- MF Augustus Esgro -- GK Benjamin Hanbury-Aggs -- MF Matthieu Imbeault -- MF Christopher Jee (captain) -- MF Gaurav Hingorani -- DF Gaspard Nemec -- FW Yann Micuta -- MF Daniel Park -- DF Jacob Poore -- DF Paul Stephan -- MF Oscar Tine -- DF Charles von Rosenberg

Reserves

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No. Position Player 8 MF Conrado Briceno 8 FW Benjamin Bryden 24 MF Richard Clements 24 MF Will Crum 11 DF Pedro de Castro 24 MF Steve Flinchbaugh 11 DF Seth Graves 11 MF Lukasz Mosakowski 11 MF Jordan O'Donaghue 11 MF Logan Roos 22 DF Steven Stone 13 MF Darren Ornitz 12 FW Dimitri Saad 11 MF Jonathan Tucker

Past Players

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player -- GK Vasilios Markou -- GK Pouria Zolfaghari -- DF Nathan Butler -- DF Fraser Campbell -- DF Fabio Cruz -- DF Radek Czarneki -- DF Eric Kemenes -- DF Sean Lightbown -- DF Pablo Lopez-Serrato -- DF Oscar Navarro-Perez -- DF Niall Rouse -- MF Noah Beaudette -- MF Armando Braun -- MF Salvatore D'Alia -- MF Jimmy Driscoll -- MF Jonas Ganzemuller -- MF Bennett Grubbs -- MF Ryan Kampe -- MF Jonathan Lawoyin -- MF Julio Radesca -- MF Slava Rar -- MF Benjamin Reichner -- MF Josh Roos -- MF Bennett Stein -- MF Jeff Yoches -- FW Emmanuel Emekeme -- FW Andrew Hilland -- FW Jeff Peer

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