Zach Mathers (born April 14, 1994) is an American

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player.

Career

College

Mathers spent his entire college career at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

. He made a total of 71 appearances for the Blue Devils and tallied 14 goals and 18 assists.

Professional

On January 14, 2016, Mathers was selected in the second round (35th overall) of the

2016 MLS SuperDraft The 2016 MLS SuperDraft was the seventeenth SuperDraft conducted by Major League Soccer. The SuperDraft is held each year in conjunction with the annual National Soccer Coaches Association of America convention. The 2016 convention was held in Ba ...

Seattle Sounders FC Seattle Sounders Football Club is an American professional men's soccer club based in Seattle. The Sounders compete as a member of the Western Conference of Major League Soccer (MLS). The club was established on November 13, 2007, and began ...

. However, he was cut during preseason and on March 9, he signed a professional contract with USL affiliate club Seattle Sounders FC 2. He made his professional debut on March 25 in a 1–0 defeat against

Sacramento Republic Sacramento Republic FC is an American professional soccer team based in Sacramento, California, that plays in the Western Conference of the USL Championship, the second level in US soccer. Co-founded by Warren Smith and Joe Wagoner in 2012, th ...

. He played his first game for

in the US Open Cup in a 2-0 win against the Kitsap Pumas on June 15, 2016. On March 2, 2018 Mathers was waived by Seattle Sounders FC.

References

External links

Duke Blue Devils bio
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