Gonzalez scores late winner for UF against No. 15 Alabama
By Declan Walsh | Oct. 4, 2020In a tale of two halves at the Diz, Florida overcame a sloppy and toothless first-half performance to notch a 2-1 victory over No. 15 Alabama.
In a tale of two halves at the Diz, Florida overcame a sloppy and toothless first-half performance to notch a 2-1 victory over No. 15 Alabama.
Cameron Hall pounded the ground in frustration. Her golden opportunity to grab a late winner against the No. 8 team in the nation fell harmlessly into Georgia goalkeeper Emory Wegener’s arms as the crowd put their hands behind their heads in the stands of Donald R. Dizney stadium.
Over the last several years, the soccer pitch hosted one of the least competitive iterations of the Florida-Georgia rivalry.
After a tumultuous period of cancellations, re-drafts and waiting, Gators soccer finally has a schedule for 2020.
There has been a revolution in the beautiful game.
When forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored the first goal for Arsenal with an effortless penalty shot in the 28th minute of Saturday’s FA Cup final, the Zoom chat erupted with a cacophony of noise that included claps, cheers and a fair bit of profanity.
The last memory Stuart Hall, the father of Gators soccer player Cameron Hall, had from April 6 to April 24 was watching the film “Creed.”
The Florida soccer team’s 2019 campaign came to an anticlimactic end Friday night in front of its home crowd at Donald R. Dizney Stadium.
After scoring just 23 goals in 21 games last season, Florida’s soccer team needed a player to revitalize its offense.
When former goalie Kaylan Marckese left for the National Women’s Soccer League, coach Becky Burleigh faced a tough decision heading into the 2019-20 campaign.
There were less than 15 minutes to play in the Players Development Academy (PDA) league’s New Jersey Cup Semifinal. Vanessa Kara — forward for the PDA Force — already had two goals. This was her shot at a third.
Two Razorbacks placed three daggers into the heart of Florida’s SEC title hopes.
Coach Becky Burleigh looked intense as ever in her classic black Gators jacket. Her eyes had a slight squint as she watched her team barely hang on to a one-goal lead.
Florida’s soccer team had one of the hardest schedules in the nation for the 2019-20 campaign.
All Florida’s soccer team needed was a win or tie in the last fixture of the regular season against Georgia to secure the SEC East title.
Julia Lester has been a mainstay in Florida’s defense over the past four years. Her fearlessness and aggressiveness have made the senior indispensable to the team’s back line.
Florida’s soccer team has made a habit of coming from behind to win games.
In the past 10 matches, Florida’s soccer team is 8-2. That success followed a 2-3 start to the season. The Gators — ranked No. 20 in the most recent United Soccer Coaches poll — head into the final three contests of the regular season in the upper echelon of the conference.
Forward Kouri Peace joined the same post-game circle her team forms after every game. Over the loudspeaker at the stadium, the song “Good Feeling” by Flo Rida came on.
The last time Florida’s soccer team faced Auburn was in the 2018 SEC Tournament play-in match.