St. Louis Ambush (2013–)

Founded	2013
Stadium	Family Arena
Ground Capacity	9,643
Owner	Will and Shelly Clark, Tony Glavin, and Dr. Elizabeth Perez
Head Coach	Tony Glavin
League	Major Arena Soccer League
2016–17	5th, Central Division Playoffs: DNQ
Website	Club website

The St. Louis Ambush is a professional indoor soccer team based in St. Charles, Missouri. They are the second team to use this name. This version of the Ambush play in the Major Arena Soccer League^[1] while the original St. Louis Ambush played in the National Professional Soccer League.^[2][3]

The current ownership group of the Ambush is Shelly and Will Clark, Tony Glavin and Dr. Elizabeth Perez.^[4]

History

Current Ambush Owners, 2016.

The Ambush originally joined the Major Indoor Soccer League in 2013. In their only season as members of the MISL the Ambush posted only four wins while losing sixteen games.

After the 2013-2014 season, the team announced that it was leaving the MISL along with five other teams and join the Major Arena Soccer League.^[5]

At a May 3, 2016 press conference in Lakeland, Florida it was announced the Ambush were moving to the newly established IPL with the Baltimore Blast and expansion franchise Florida Tropics SC.^[6] However, on August 29, 2016, it was announced that all IPL teams would be joining (or re-joining) the MASL. ^[7]

The MASL had a 'free agent' period for the first two weeks of May 2017, where any players who were free agents were free to negotiate with any team in the league. The Saint Louis Ambush failed to sign any players during the 'free agent' period, though few players changed teams in the league during this period in May. The team still has not signed any free agent players as of late July 2017. ^[8].

On December 14, 2015, Tony Glavin took over as the Head Coach of the Saint Louis Ambush. However, on July 18, 2017, Glavin was removed from the Head Coach position, though he remains a part-owner of the team. A committee is being formed to search for a new coach, with the position expected to be filled by the end of August 2017 prior to team tryouts ^[9].

Year-by-year

Players

Active players

As of December 20, 2016.^[10]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Casey Clark 2 MF Cody Costakis 4 MF Corey Adamson 5 FW Kory Dowell 6 DF Chris Mattingly 8 FW Vadim Cojocov 9 FW Stefan St. Louis 10 MF Lucas Almeida 11 FW Richard Schmermund 12 FW Cody Blentlinger 14 MF Nick Kolarac

No. Position Player 13 MF Kentaro Takada 14 MF Ross MacGregor 15 MF Victor France 16 DF Nathaniel Kast 17 MF Ian Garrett 18 MF Carlos Contreras 19 DF Greg Kranz 24 DF Mitch Garcia 26 FW Daniel Berko 31 GK Nikola Marojevic 77 MF Ross MacGregor

Inactive players

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

No. Position Player 3 DF Jake Cawsey 20 FW JT Thomas 21 GK Blake Westerman

No. Position Player 25 DF Dylan Hundelt 27 DF Jonathan Ramos 28 DF Joao Pepe

Head coaches

Former Ambush head coach Daryl Doran.

• Daryl Doran (2013-2015) ^[11]
• Tony Glavin (2015–2017) ^[12]

Arenas

• Family Arena

Note: During the 2013-14 season, the Ambush used both the lower bowl and upper deck of the Family Arena. Since 2014, the Ambush have only used the lower bowl for seating fans. The lower bowl of the Family Arena has a capacity of about 5,000 fans.

References

http://www.stlambush.com/stats#/player/133881/bio Nick Kolarac

External links

• Official website