FC Adrenaline is an American professional

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team, founded in 2007. The team played in the

Premier Arena Soccer League The Premier Arena Soccer League (PASL) is an indoor soccer league with mostly semi-professional teams; along with a number of amateur teams across North America. The PASL was previously known as the Federation of Sports Arenas (FSA). The PASL logo ...

from 2007–2010 as "Piasa FC". The club moved to the

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(PASL) in 2010 as "Illinois Piasa" under head coach Jerry Lakin. They originally played their home matches at the Soccer for Fun Arena in

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. From 2011 through 2013, Piasa played their home games at The Sports Academy in

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. In July 2013, the Piasa announced that they would play the 2013–14 PASL season at The Field Sports Complex in

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. On July 22, 2013, the team announced that head coach Jason Norsic had resigned to pursue personal and family commitments. Doug Montroy was named as his replacement. On January 11, 2014, the team "parted ways" with Montroy and assistant coach Ed Rulo was named interim head coach for the remainder of the 2013–14 season. In April 2014, The Field Sports Complex acquired all properties related to Illinois Piasa. The club will be an affiliate of St. Louis FC. TFSC announced the rebranding of the club as FC Adrenaline in August 2014. The club will compete in the

during the 2014–15 season.

Year-by-year

Piasa name

The club's original name comes from the mythical

Piasa Bird The Piasa ( ) or Piasa Bird is a creature from Native American mythology depicted in one of two murals painted by Native Americans on cliffsides above the Mississippi River. Its original location was at the end of a chain of limestone bluffs i ...

, a Native American legend from the

Alton, Illinois Alton ( ) is a city on the Mississippi River in Madison County, Illinois, United States, about north of St. Louis, Missouri. The population was 25,676 at the 2020 census. It is a part of the River Bend area in the Metro-East region of the ...

, area just outside

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. The legend says there is a giant bird that lives in the caves of the

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bluffs near Alton that kidnaps people, then proceeds to devour them in his lair.

References

External links

FC Adrenaline website
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