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We are Continuing our regular look at how our CITY signings and rumored signings are performing before they arrive in St. Louis later this year. Below are our players classified into either confirmed or rumored signings. As of April 12, 2022 that list includes Josh Yaro, Selmir Pidro, Tomáš Ostrák, João Klauss, and Roman Bürki. Joakim Nilsson and...

We are Continuing our regular look at how our CITY signings and rumored signings are performing before they arrive in St. Louis later this year. Below are our players classified into either confirmed or rumored signings. As of March 29th, 2022 that list includes Josh Yaro, Selmir Pidro, Tomáš Ostrák, João Klauss, and Roman Bürki. Joakim Nilsson and...

We are continuing our regular look at how our CITY signings and rumored signings are performing before they arrive in St. Louis later this year. Below are our players classified into either confirmed or rumored signings. As of March 22th, 2022 that list includes Josh Yaro, Selmir Pidro, Tomáš Ostrák, João Klauss, and now officially as of this past...

Ezra Armstrong is a 23 year old left back who signed with CITY2 after spending last season with the Pittsburgh Riverhounds of USL-C. Ezra can be considered somewhat of a rare breed of American soccer player, choosing to forego college in favor of a direct professional career path. He began on that path in the Sporting KC Academy system,...

We are continuing our regular look at how our CITY signings and rumored signings are performing before they arrive in St. Louis later this year. Below are our players classified into either confirmed or rumored signings. As of March 15th, 2022 that list includes Josh Yaro, Selmir Pidro, Tomáš Ostrák, and João Klauss. Joaqim Nilsson is rumored to be...

St. Louis CITY SC is still about one year away from taking the field in MLS competition, but the work to build out our first year roster is well underway. Sporting Director Lutz Pfannestiel and staff have completed 4 official STL CITY SC signings with another player publicly rumored, and a tease by Lutz, head coach Brandley Carnell and Manuel...

Spring Begins

03/07/2022

Spring is just around the corner so I wanted to take a moment to share with everyone what we can look forward to with St. Louis CITY SC's Academy. Most of us are aware that CITY 2 is in the middle of their preseason and will begin their season on March 25th against Rochester. However, there is some league action...

It appears that CITY2 has added two additional players to the preseason roster, Kwame Awuah and Vitor Dias. Both players are listed as midfielders, and both were being considered by the Vancouver Whitecaps before appearing on the CITY2 roster. Kwame was on trial with Vancouver and Vitor was selected by the Whitecaps in the 3rd Round of this year's...

St. Louis City SC have made their biggest personnel move to date by signing Brazilian João Klauss de Mello as their first Designated Player. Klauss is a 6'3" forward who has just turned 25 this week and comes to City from Bundesliga club Hoffenheim for a reported transfer fee of $3 million. (The "Designated Player" tag allows for the signing...

Celio Pompeu (pronounced POM-pew) is a Brazilian midfielder who was signed to a pro contract with CITY2 after spending 3 seasons with Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Celio was a highly touted, two time All-American high school player (scored 41 goals and assisted 51 times in 3 years) and was offered contracts from European teams before...