MSOC 2026

[Jojogunne]

Congratulations to Stephen Roche on his first win in his first game as our MSOC coach:

https://gohofstra.com/news/2026/8/20/me ... knell.aspx

[HUSID74]

Well done coach! Tough shoes to fill but we're rooting for you!

[Jojogunne]

First home game is this Sunday at 6 pm vs. American University.

[Polito]

Good start to a big transition year

[EvanJ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqvWfS5Xz_Y is highlights of a 2-0 win hosting American. https://gohofstra.com/sports/mens-socce ... core/14327 has the box score. We had more shots 9 to 6, and more shots on goal 5 to 3.

[Jojogunne]

Congratulations to our new goalie, Milo Risenhoover, who was named CAA Defensive Player of the Week today. Milo is a fifth-year transfer from the University of the Pacific:

https://gohofstra.com/news/2026/8/24/me ... -week.aspx

[Polito]

Need the men to have a strong year - good out of the starting gate and now ranked - rivalry matchup tomorrow night, let's keep the train rolling

[EvanJ]

We scored first but got a 1-1 draw. It is not pleasant to see the Football end zone in the goal area. It dropped us from Number 13 to Number 16 in the United Soccer Coaches' Poll. We play at St. John's tonight.

[HUSID74]

Amazing finish vs. St. John's. After a lightening delay we win 2-1 it on a penalty kick with 20 seconds to play!

[Hofstra97]

That was some finish-to score after St John's equalized it was amazing!!! Does anyone know why Santi did not play?

[Jojogunne]

Santi suffered a head injury in the SBU match. Announcers said there was blood on the turf. He went back in to finish the game, but maybe he needs more time to recover.

[EvanJ]

Amazing finish vs. St. John's. After a lightening delay we win 2-1 it on a penalty kick with 20 seconds to play!

St. John's tied it 15 seconds before we scored. St. John's had more shots 15 to 8, and shots on goal were 3 to 3.

https://gohofstra.com/news/2026/9/2/men ... fstra.aspx is titled "Matton's PK In Final Seconds Lifts Hofstra."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7IrbRXORb0 is highlights.

[Jojogunne]

Strong defensive performance tonight as Hofstra defeated Drexel, 1-0, to remain undefeated.

Axel Ruben passed the ball from the left side of the box to Henri Poll, who headed it into the empty Drexel net for his first Hofstra goal.

Sean Keane filled in on defense for Pietro Santi, who is expected back soon, according to the announcers.

[EvanJ]

https://gohofstra.com/news/2026/9/5/men ... rexel.aspx is titled "Poll's Goal, Stellar Defensive Effort Leads #16 Hofstra Past Drexel."

https://gohofstra.com/boxscore.aspx?path=msoc&id=14330 is the box score. We had more shots 11 to 2, and more shots on goal 7 to 1. The attendance was 375.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-OpZnbYtYo is highlights.

[HUSID74]

Nice article in today's Newsday on the teamandour 16th nationalranking:
s://www.newsday.com/sports/college/hofstra/ ... dium=email

[Jojogunne]

An excellent read. Thanks for posting, HUSID.

The article points out that we have players from Spain, Australia, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, France, Germany, and England plus five players from states outside of New York and six local players.

I love these quotes from our players:

M Henri Poll (from Germany):

“It’s been a great start but … there’s still a lot of things to improve. The standard has [to be] to go as far as possible in the tournament to win a championship and I think there’s still a lot of room. If we do that, then the sky’s the limit.”

G Aidan GaNun (Chaminade):

“The reason we have such a good team now and the reason we have so many top European players, local players [and players] from anywhere is because of those teams that have done so well in the past. We’re kind of built on their shoulders. Who wouldn’t want to go to a team that’s ranked No. 16 in the country? Consistently top 25 and has gone to the national tournament the last five years? So it really does help, of course.”

*****

Also, we host 2024 national champion Vermont next Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 7 pm.

[Polito]

Mens Soccer is once again very exciting, this is a really fun program to support - high quality, routinely top 25 level, and solid kids representing - we have a blast at the games, should be getting to a couple end of month / start of Oct. Really impressive to see the team picking up where it left off from Nuttall.

[Hofstra97]

Very exciting game tonight!!! Anyone going? I'm going with my wife.

[The Shadow]

Tonight's Vermont game is on MSG at 7:00. This Saturday's 5:00 game versus Binghampton is also on MSG.

[stuball888]

This is what happens when your nationally ranked