Wikipedia - OSA Seattle FC

OSA Seattle FC, formerly FC Tacoma 253, is an American association football (soccer) club based in the Seattle metro area. The team plays within the Northwest Conference of the National Premier Soccer League, a national league generally considered the fourth-tier of the American Soccer Pyramid.

It is affiliated with a women's team, OSA XF (formerly AC Seattle), which competes in the semi-professional Women's Premier Soccer League. Both are run by OSA Soccer Academy, LLC.

History

League

FC Tacoma 253 was announced as an National Premier Soccer League expansion team in November 2014, with plans to begin play the following season. Tacoma tied Real San Jose, 1-1, at home in its first-ever league match on March 28, 2015. Abdi Galgalo scored the team's first league goal.

The club's first notable signing was of Oussama Essabr, a Moroccan product of the Juventus F.C. Youth Sector. Shortly thereafter, the club acquired Samuele Piccinotti from Serie D A.S. Varese 1910's academy along with Marco Dugo, Gianmarco Peressini, and Stefano Layeni.

The team finished its inaugural season as champions of the Northwest Conference, which secured qualification for the 2015 NPSL West Region playoffs. However, the team lost to Sacramento Gold FC, 3–2, in extra time in its first match.

During the offseason, following meetings between head coach Filippo Milano and owner Giuseppe Pezzano, the team re-branded to OSA FC with plans to integrate more Italian talent alongside young American players. The newly branded team finished the 2016 NPSL season first in the Northwest Conference for a second straight year, defeating Portland Spartans FC, 2–1, on July 2. OSA earned the organizations first playoff win the West Region first round when it beat CD Aguiluchos USA, 3–2, on the road. The team fell to West Region top seed Albion SC Pros in the region semifinal.

Prior to the 2020 NPSL season, the team changed its name to OSA Seattle FC.

U.S. Open Cup

Prior to the 2015 regular season's start Tacoma played its inaugural match on February 20, 2015 in a qualifier for the 2015 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, in which they defeated fellow Northwest Conference team and Oregon-based Spartans Futbol Club, 2–1, at Starfire Sports. On March 22, 2015, In its second match, FC Tacoma beat Southwest Conference representative San Diego Flash, 6–1, at Memorial Stadium (Seattle), and officially qualified for the 2015 U.S. Open Cup.

Tacoma faced the Kitsap Pumas in the first round of the tournament on May 13, 2015, and lost, 5–2. Steven Wright scored the team's first ever goal in the tournament, while Pedro Milan picked up the second.

The team, now playing under the OSA name, qualified for a second time via an at-large bid based on its 2016 NPSL results. In the 2017 U.S. Open Cup First round, OSA won its first ever tournament game when it defeated Seattle Sounders FC U-23 in a penalty kick shootout, 0-0 (5-3), on May 10, 2017. A week later in the second round, the team played to a second straight penalty kick shootout against United Soccer League side Reno 1868 FC where it lost, 1-1 (3-4).

美國足球俱樂部「OSA FC」是一支以紐約市為基地的職業足球隊,於 2020 年創立。球隊目前參加美國職業足球聯賽 (USL),是美國足球金字塔的第二級別聯賽。

OSA FC 主場位於皇后區的法拉盛草原可樂娜公園,球場可容納 7,500 名觀眾。球隊的隊徽以白色、藍色和紅色為主色調,象徵著美國國旗的顏色。

OSA FC 由一群熱愛足球的企業家和投資者共同創立,他們希望在紐約市建立一支具有競爭力的足球隊,並為球迷提供優質的觀賽體驗。球隊的總經理是前美國國家足球隊球員塔布·拉莫斯 (Tab Ramos),他曾代表美國隊參加過 1990 年和 1994 年世界盃。

OSA FC 從成立之初就吸引了大量球迷的關注,在俱樂部的首個賽季(2021 賽季)就獲得了 USL 東部聯盟的常規賽冠軍,並在季后賽中闖入決賽。球隊在 2022 賽季繼續保持著強勁的勢頭,目前在東部聯盟排名第一。

OSA FC 的陣容中有許多有潛力的年輕球員,其中包括美國 U20 國家足球隊成員克里斯托弗·麥圭爾 (Christopher McGlynn),以及墨西哥 U20 國家足球隊成員奧斯卡·穆里略 (Oscar Murillo)。球隊還簽下了一些經驗豐富的球員,如前美國國腳小克林特·登普西 (Clint Dempsey Jr.),和前阿根廷國腳迭戈·瓦倫丁·米利托 (Diego Valentín Milito)。

OSA FC 是美國足球界一支冉冉升起的新星,球隊在未來幾年有望成為美國足球的主要力量。