{"id":17739,"date":"2013-01-17T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T20:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=17739"},"modified":"2013-01-17T15:56:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T20:56:36","slug":"gk-soffner-taken-at-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=17739","title":{"rendered":"GK Soffner Taken at 36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"455\" height=\"349\" id=\"cf69095oi\" name=\"cf69095on\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/p.mlssoccer.com\/SAu5a\/video\/1314516\/1314516_2013-01-07-041616.640hq.mp4\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The New England Revolution concluded their SuperDraft festivities with a surprise pick, taking Indiana goalkeeper Luis Soffner at the 36th spot.<\/p>\n<p>Soffner, who spent five seasons with the Hoosiers from 2008-2012, was the second goalkeeper taken in Thursday&#8217;s SuperDraft after Brad Stuver (Cleveland State) was selected 32nd by Montreal. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m absolutely honored and excited to be chosen by the Revolution and to get to play in MLS,&#8221; Soffner said in a release from the team. &#8220;It\u2019s a dream come true and I\u2019m excited to get out there and looking forward to doing my part.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Soffner started all 24 games for the Hoosiers in 2012, and blanked the opposition in over half of them (13). He posted a 0.72 GAA and recorded an .816 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>At 6-4, 210 lbs., Soffner has the size to wall up the net, and scouts saw vast improvement in his game during his senior campaign. His stop-shotting ability was one area that Soffner strengthened, though the scouting report on him notes that he needs to become stronger in the air.<\/p>\n<p>With Matt Reis and Bobby Shuttleworth as the only two goalkeepers on the roster, Soffer is expected to fill in as the third-string goalkeeper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Revolution concluded their SuperDraft festivities with a surprise pick, taking Indiana goalkeeper Luis Soffner at the 36th spot. Soffner, who spent five seasons with the Hoosiers from 2008-2012, was the second goalkeeper taken in Thursday&#8217;s SuperDraft after Brad Stuver (Cleveland State) was selected 32nd by Montreal. &#8220;I\u2019m absolutely honored and excited to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[212,206,1274],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17739"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17749,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739\/revisions\/17749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}