DRACUT — Jordan Murphy has been named as the new head soccer coach at Dracut High School. Murphy, who graduated from DHS in 2009, performed at the Middies’ 2008 Super Bowl championship group coached by using his uncle, Pat Murphy.

He went directly to play football as a 6-2, 245-pound tight stop for Division 1 Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, in which he earned his Bachelor of Arts and Master’s degrees. Murphy’s education experience includes a stint as assistant director of soccer operations at Bethune-Cookman.

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“Coach Murphy is a former Middie who knows our faculty, our athletic programs, our traditions, and our aspirations for our pupil-athletes,” said DHS Principal Richard Manley. “He also brings the expertise and experience won from gambling Division 1 football domestic to Dracut.” Added Athletic Director Trevor Blanchet: “Coach Murphy is an educator whose ardor for the game and enjoys as a college participant and train will bring electricity to our football software and our school. I am excited about the destiny of Middie football.” Murphy attended Ayer High School as a freshman and sophomore, Dracut High as a junior and senior, then Bridgton Academy. He isn’t in any relation to the late Ed Murphy, the legendary lengthy-time Dracut teach.

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Cape Town – Kaizer Chiefs proper-lower back Ramahlwe Mphahlele has found out the club is focused on CAF Champions League or CAF Confederations Cup soccer in 2019/20. The experienced defender believes the side can climb the standings and finish in a position in which they can qualify for either competition. The Glamour Boys are all but out of the Premiership identify race as they trail leaders Mamelodi Sundowns through eight factors and best six suits remain. Nonetheless, Chiefs also can qualify for the CCC if they were to win the Nedbank Cup.

“Neymar is hungry,” Tuchel PSG head instructs Thomas Tuchel said Neymar is ‘hungry’ to play on pinnacle degree after the Brazilian bagged a hat trick of their 6-1 domestic win in opposition to Red Star Belgrade inside the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday (three October). Currently, the outfit from Naturena is inside the semi-finals. They will arise in opposition to Chippa United on 20 April at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth. Mphahlele said: “I’m certain if we push difficult in those closing games, as well as the Nedbank Cup games, we’ve got a threat of finishing in a better position.
“That’s what we can do, and manifestly we want to win the Nedbank; it is not a mystery.

“We’ll do the whole lot in our powers to win it and, if we win it, we visit Africa [CAF Confederation Cup]. If we finish better inside the league, we nonetheless visit Africa, which we want. “Better is [number] one, of the path. It might be outstanding if we win the league. I don’t actually need to dwell much on the league issue. As I stated, we need to push inside the final games and notice where we end.
“If we push hard sufficient inside the closing video games and win them, or draw or anything, anyplace we are going to become, that, for us, might be higher due to the fact we really pushed hard and failed to lose video games.” Chiefs next time out within the league is against Baroka on Saturday evening.