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Baton Rouge Capitals is an American soccer team based in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, United States. Founded in 2007, the team
plays in the USL Premier Development
League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Southeast
Division of the Southern Conference.
The team plays its home games Olympia Stadium, where they have
played since 2007. The team's colors are red, white and black.
History
Baton Rouge entered its first ever soccer franchise into the PDL
in 2007, under the leadership of Bo Cassidy, a veteran coach and
collegiate player at UMass Amherst. The Capitals started their
inaugural season with three straight defeats, failing to pick up
their first win until the fourth game of the season, 1-0 over
fellow new boys Mississippi Brilla. The rest of the
season followed a similar pattern: a sequence of defeats, followed
by an impressive victory which seemed to signal a turn in fortune,
only for the defeats to continue. Their highlight was a superb
see-saw 3-2 win over the experience El Paso Patriots that featured a brace
by striker Tony Judice, but their inconsistency eventually left
them in sixth place in standings, 15 points behind divisional
champions Laredo
Heat. Judice was the Capitals' top scorer, notching 5 goals;
Irish international striker Joseph Lapira also made a valuable
contribution, with 3 goals and 1 assist to his name.
The Capitals changed coaches during the offseason, bringing in
local Brazilian-born coach Helio d'Anna, but his introduction
failed to have the desired effect, as the team again suffered from
raging inconsistency, especially away from home. They actually won
their opening game of the 2008 campaign, 2-0 over the El Paso
Patriots off a pair of goals by Tony Judice, but immediately
slumped to three successive defeats in their next three games. They
won the first half of the Louisiana derby, 4-1 at home over the New Orleans
Shell Shockers, and enjoyed a brief run of form at the
beginning of June, knocking off Houston Leones and Mississippi
Brilla in quick succession, but rapidly reverted to their old
ways; they didn't win another game that month, suffering a trio of
3-goal defeats, and were eliminated from playoff contention with
several games remaining in the season. They did manage to do the
double over their state rivals, beating New Orleans 3-2 in the
return fixture in the Big Easy with two goals from Leonardo dos
Barros, but eventually finished the year a distant fifth in the Mid
South, 9 points adrift of divisional champions Austin Aztex
U23. Leonardo dos Barros was Baton Rouge's top scorer, with 7
goals, while Ricardo Santos contributed three assists.
Players
Current
roster
as at June 14, 2009
| No. |
|
Position |
Player |
| 1 |
 |
GK |
Pedro Caetano |
| 2 |
|
FW |
Jose Leandro Pereira |
| 3 |
 |
DF |
Oscar Gonzalez |
| 4 |
|
DF |
Felipe Nogueira |
| 5 |
|
DF |
Curtis Brashear |
| 6 |
|
DF |
Saulo Literio |
| 8 |
|
MF |
Reinaldo Caetano |
| 9 |
|
DF |
Tony Judice |
| 10 |
|
MF |
Felipe Lowall |
| 11 |
|
MF |
Ricardo Santos |
| 12 |
|
MF |
Richard Dixon |
|
|
| No. |
|
Position |
Player |
| 14 |
|
MF |
Craig Cook |
| 15 |
|
DF |
Sean Reynolds |
| 16 |
|
FW |
Josey Portillo |
| 17 |
|
DF |
Philip Stansfield |
| 18 |
|
FW |
Marc Miller |
| 19 |
|
MF |
Chris Anderson |
| 20 |
|
MF |
Renan Serafim |
| 21 |
|
FW |
William Davidson |
| 22 |
|
MF |
Jared Wooley |
| 23 |
|
GK |
Zachary Wallace |
|
Notable
former players
Year-by-year
| Year |
Division |
League |
Regular Season |
Playoffs |
Open Cup |
| 2007 |
4 |
USL PDL |
6th, Mid South |
Did not qualify |
Did not qualify |
| 2008 |
4 |
USL PDL |
5th, Mid South |
Did not qualify |
Did not qualify |
| 2009 |
4 |
USL PDL |
5th, Southeast |
Did not qualify |
Did not qualify |
| 2010 |
4 |
USL PDL |
|
|
|
Head
coaches
- Bo
Cassidy (2007)
- Helio
d'Anna (2008)
- Paulo
Canineu Neto (2009-present)
Stadia
Average
attendance
| Year |
Attendance |
Notes |
| 2007 |
552 |
|
| 2008 |
not yet available |
|
| All Time |
552 |
|
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