Screamin’ Seamen Football Club – Season 3
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Screamin’ Seamen Prepared To Take Another Shot At Title
(Chicago, IL) The Screamin’ Seamen Football Club, under the ownership and management of Data King, are prepared to take a second shot at the Division IV title this season. In the club’s first season, they breezed to a Division V championship with a record of thirteen wins and one draw. Last season saw them in position to win a Division IV title with only one match to play, sitting at a record of eleven wins and two draws. But disaster struck on the last Sunday of the season, as the valiant Seamen fell to Croats in Miami by a score of 1-nil. It was the team’s first ever league-match loss, and it handed the Division IV title to the Ramblers.
The team now includes a couple of new faces added during the off-season, but due to the fiscal responsibility which King regularly preaches, fans will see largely the same club that they followed last year. Two of the new additions are 26-year-old Swedish midfielder Niklas Ivarsson, and 29-year-old Argentinean winger Valentin Rubio. Both players bring some experience, as well as more talent to the club.
“Our goal was to bring in some more experience to counteract the relative youth of our defense,” stated King at a press conference earlier this week. “Our defense is our cornerstone, and is quite talented, but Chuck Scales is the oldest starter on the back line at twenty-four. Arlen [Lucas] is only twenty-one years old. Heck, Tyler [Willard] can’t even buy beer yet!”
The third addition to the club is actually a product of the team’s youth squad; central defender Cameron McDonald. At only eighteen years of age, young Cameron is said to already be close to the level of play the other three have shown on defense. Although King and other team officials refuse to comment, it is expected that Cameron will become a starter for the club within a season or two.
But there are some that say that the Seamen are merely treading water, and may not be up to the challenges that face them in the coming season. Croats in Miami, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and league-champion Ramblers all return for another season. On top of this, four teams have been promoted from Division V, and a couple of them look to pose a significant challenge to the established teams in the division. SoccerWussies and Big Reds both look to be quite talented, and could very well contend for the series title.
“The division has certainly gotten a lot more competitive than it was last year,” stated King when asked about the division’s new participants. “We will be keeping a close eye on all four clubs in the early weeks of the season.” The Seamen will get an up-close look at the Big Reds in week two, as the Ithaca, New York-based club will visit Chicago for the SSFC home opener.
It should be an interesting season, to say the least.
Ivan Phillip Freely is an associated press writer for the Chicago Tribunal.