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Kalamazoo Outrage is an American soccer club founded in 2007. The team is a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and plays in the Midwest Division of the Central Conference in 2008, against teams from Chicago, Fort Wayne, Grand Rapids and South Bend.
The team plays their home games at the Mayors Riverfront Stadium in the city of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
The team has a sister organization, the Kalamazoo Outrage Women, who play in the women's USL W-League.
Outrage are not affiliated with the Kalamazoo Kingdom soccer club, which competed in the PDL for many years until 2006, although Outrage's head coach, Stu Riddle, was the head coach of Kingdom during its last competitive season.
[edit] 2008 Roster
as at June 8, 2008
[edit] Year-by-year
| Year |
Division |
League |
Regular Season |
Playoffs |
Open Cup |
| 2008 |
4 |
USL PDL |
in progress |
|
Did not qualify |
[edit] Club Information
The club is part of the larger Kalamazoo TKO organization, which runs men, women's and junior teams in the greater Kalamazoo area. The acronym TKO has no official meaning; it was first coined by the club’s former coach Paul Wolpert when he was 11 years old, and was part of a group of local Michigan AYSO players who participated in the Adidas Dominos Pizza Soccer Tournament in Lansing, Michigan, and called themselves The Kalamazoo Outfit, or TKO for short. Since then, TKO has been used as an acronym for Technical Knock-Out, and even The Killer Oranges, both of which are listed as being correct on the official TKO website.
[edit] Partnership with Sheffield Wednesday
On November 14th 2007, the club announced a player development deal with one of England's oldest soccer teams, Sheffield Wednesday, who have a history of working with American players (former USA international team player John Harkes played successfully with the Owls in the 1990s, and current international Frank Simek is their current first-choice right-back).
The Owls further cemented their link with the American outfit on the 16th April 2008 when the Wednesday academy sent midfielder Scott Ellis to play with Outrage fo thre 2008 season, Ellis having impressed Kalamazoo coach Stu Riddle during their educational trip to Wednesday's Middlewood Road s training ground in earely 2008.
[edit] Old Burdicks Challenge Cup
On May 13th, 2008 the Outrage won their first bit of silverware after defeating perennial PDL powerhouse the Michigan Bucks in their first ever official match. The match which was dubbed the "Battle of Michigan" was settled by penalty kicks with the Outrage emerging as the victors 5-4. The scores were locked at 1-1 after 90 minutes with former Plymouth Argyle schoolboy Dan Bulley scoring the Outrage's lone goal. Striker Chase Corricelli sent the home fans into raptures after he scored the winning penalty kick on a cold windy night in downtown Kalamazoo.
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[edit] External links
Doug Hammerberg
Stu Riddle
