David Geno (Kingsport, TN), a rising senior at East Tennessee State, recently made soccer noise at the national level.
He scored four goals to lead the Seattle Sounders Under-23s to a 5-1 win over Doxa Italia in the first round of the U.S. Open Cup. All four came in the first half.
They came in a span of 19 minutes. He became the 10th player to score four goals in U.S. Open Cup play since 1995.
“Everybody played so well,” said Geno in a Seattle News Tribune report. “I was just on the end of some perfect balls in. I had the easy part, really.”
“Soccer’s a player’s game,” said Geno’s U-23 coach Darren Sewatzky. “A young guy from Tennessee came out and said, ‘This is why I want to be in Seattle’…..if that’s any indication of where he’s headed, it’s a good pickup.”
In his collegiate career, Geno, who played high school soccer at Dobyns-Bennett HS, now has 23 goals, 16 assists and 62 points, which are all ETSU’s program records. He surpassed all three marks formerly held by Aaron Schoenfeld, a current member of the Columbus Crew of MLS.
He scored four goals to lead the Seattle Sounders Under-23s to a 5-1 win over Doxa Italia in the first round of the U.S. Open Cup. All four came in the first half.
They came in a span of 19 minutes. He became the 10th player to score four goals in U.S. Open Cup play since 1995.
“Everybody played so well,” said Geno in a Seattle News Tribune report. “I was just on the end of some perfect balls in. I had the easy part, really.”
“Soccer’s a player’s game,” said Geno’s U-23 coach Darren Sewatzky. “A young guy from Tennessee came out and said, ‘This is why I want to be in Seattle’…..if that’s any indication of where he’s headed, it’s a good pickup.”
In his collegiate career, Geno, who played high school soccer at Dobyns-Bennett HS, now has 23 goals, 16 assists and 62 points, which are all ETSU’s program records. He surpassed all three marks formerly held by Aaron Schoenfeld, a current member of the Columbus Crew of MLS.