Damià Viader, a 23-year-old Catalan left-back, was named defender of the year in the USL League One (USL 1), the third category of soccer in the United States after Major League Soccer (MLS) and USL Championshhip (USLC).
The Barcelona footballer has thus been rewarded for his great year in the ranks of the Union Omaha, who finished the regular season as leader of the USL 1 with six points of advantage over the second classified, the Greenville.
Seven goals and five assists this course
‘Quantity‘, which came to American football in 2018 from the CE Europe, he has been a key man for his technician Jay Mims with six goals and five goal assists during the regular season, in addition to the goal he scored last Saturday in the win (6-1) at FC Tucson in the semifinal of the USL1 Playoffs.
The very final, next Saturday
Next Saturday, the set of Nebraska will face in the final a Grenville which this season they have not yet managed to defeat, having drawn (1-1) in the first round and lost by the minimum (0-1) at home last October.
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