{"id":41700,"date":"2016-03-18T22:11:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T02:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=41700"},"modified":"2016-03-18T22:26:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T02:26:03","slug":"ex-pioneer-joey-kapinos-named-to-u-s-futsal-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=41700","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Pioneer Joey Kapinos Named to U.S. Futsal Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"USA-Futsal\"<\/p>\n

Former Western Mass Pioneers goalkeeper Joey Kapinos is headed to Argentina after he was called in for U.S. Futsal National Team camp in Buenos Aires on Friday.<\/a><\/p>\n

Kapinos, who suited up for the Pioneers in 2012 and 2013, was one of 15 players named to head coach Keith Tozer’s roster for the international camp and friendlies.<\/p>\n

The Ludlow, Mass. native previously represented the US Futsal National Team during the 2015 WMF World Cup. He is currently a member of the Cedar Rapids Rampage of Major Arena Soccer League (MASL).<\/p>\n

Prior to the season, Kapinos collected 584 saves, and recorded a .715 save percentage over the last three seasons with the Rochester Lancers (2014-15) and the Detroit Waza Flo (2012-13, 2013-14).<\/p>\n

In his first year in the league, Kapinos, who attended Southern New Hampshire University, set the Detroit club record for wins in a season with 13, helping the team to a US Arena Open Cup championship and earning himself all-league second team plaudits.<\/p>\n

Prior to the 2015-16 season, he was recruited to play for MASL expansion side Hartford City FC<\/a>, which folded days before the it was set to debut last November.<\/p>\n

The U.S.’s upcoming contests will help the team as it prepares for the 2016 CONCACAF Futsal Championship, which is set to take place from May 4-14 in Costa Rica.<\/p>\n

The U.S. will face Canada in a set of play-in matches to start their World Cup Qualifying journey, with the first match on May 4 and the second on May 6, both kicking off at 10 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

The winning team of the play-in matches will be placed in Group B with host Costa Rica, Curacao and Cuba.<\/p>\n

USA Training Camp Schedule
\nMarch 24: USA vs. Argentina U-20
\nMarch 25: USA vs. Argentina U-20
\nMarch 27: USA vs. Argentina
\nMarch 28: USA vs. Argentina<\/p>\n

U.S. FUTSAL ROSTER BY POSITION:<\/p>\n

GOALKEEPERS (2): Joseph Kapinos (Cedar Rapids Rampage),<\/strong> Daniel Waltman (Tacoma Stars)<\/p>\n

DEFENDERS (4): Sterling Hancock (IFK Stockaryd\/R\u00f6rviks IF), Lucas Mohageg (Unattached), Miguel Muniz (Segosala), Alexander Tozer (Cedar Rapids Rampage)<\/p>\n

MIDFIELDERS (6): Alan Acevedo (Unattached), Andrew Ducker (Detroit Waza Flo), Gordon Gurson (Cedar Rapids Rampage), Edward Manella (Unattached), Antonio Manfut (Syracuse Silver Knights), Daniel Mattos (Detroit Waza Flo)<\/p>\n

FORWARDS (3): Taylor Bond (Chicago Mustangs), Alexander Megson (Cedar Rapids Rampage), Joseph Tavernese (Syracuse Silver Knights)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Pioneers keeper Joey Kapinos was named to the latest USA Futsal roster on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41704,"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":[1400],"tags":[1350,892,1484,1294],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/USA-Futsal.png?fit=600%2C415&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41700"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41711,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41700\/revisions\/41711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}