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Chicagoland Soccer Top 25


By Patrick Z. McGavin

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Asked  to explain a 44-point swing over a two-week span against rival Neuqua Valley in basketball, Waubonsie Valley boys coach Jason Mead said:

“It’s been a strange season.”

And it will be no different in high school soccer.

Given the fluidity of our current times, little was expected to go according to form in this compressed, upside-down boys soccer season.

Leyden coach Mark Valintis predicted: “You’re going to see a lot of crazy scores this year.”

Basketball has officially ended with the last of the Chicago schools completing their seasons this weekend. Football started Friday night and runs for the next five weeks.

Now soccer enters the third week of the season, normally a time when teams start to separate and create a specific hierarchy.

With some programs opting out of the season, others in quarantine or not able to play or practice due to health and safety protocols, and others making the choice to start slowly, there is a significant discrepancy in games played so far.

Some schools have been able to play five or six games. Some, like St. Patrick or Fenwick, have played just one.

Rather than decry the uncertainty, the overwhelming response from players has been to celebrate the existence of a season that seemed very much in doubt the first week of January.

The human desire to make sense of things is natural. In this pandemic times, that can be somewhat futile. And it will be no different in high school soccer.

Here is the new poll. Take a screenshot; not everything is going to stay the same.

​Games through Saturday





Rk LW Team W L T Comment
12Lyons300Tim Slusarczyk is inventive in space
27New Trier600Will Franzen springs explosive attack
39Warren300Noe Martinez is a skilled midfielder
410Loyola300Oscar Blazer is gifted two-way talent
53Morton111Jesus Perez back from basketball
64Benet410Anthony Klotz key piece of solid back
712Streamwood201Harvey Partida has 3 shutouts
823St. Charles N510Sam Strade is crucial part of dominant middle
96St. Charles E411Newcomer Gaetano D’Argento solidifies the midfield
1020Geneva312Ryan Leake is gifted offensive talent
111Naperville North420Keegan Flaherty is dynamic talent
1214Hersey400Nathan Solarsky is a physical defender
1313Maine South400Jackson Wambach is talented midfielder
14NRYork201Connor Bare is set piece specialist
155St. Patrick100UIC recruit Josh Torres not playing pandemic season
168West Chicago211St. Charles N ends unbeaten streak
17HMWheaton A311Evan Eckert is precocious defender
1818Naperville C213Johnny Kim a very skilled midfielder
1919W Aurora600Joe Sustersic earns 300th career win
2017Fenwick100Anders Lutheringhausen settles the back
2121Oswego200Dominant win over Plainfield N
2215Barrington310Tight loss against Hersey
23HMSt. Ignatius200Jaden Rice makes electrifying impression
24HMLeyden210Pablo Mancho is a major talent
25HMFremd320Ryan Sapiente leads strong 3-0 week
Look out for: South Elgin, Wheaton North, Jacobs, Wheaton Warrenville South, Lake Park, St. Laurence, Sandburg, Stevenson, Round Lake, Solorio, Latin, Glenbard North, Grayslake Central, Timothy, Crystal Lake South.




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