Zack Pope (born March 20, 1986, in
Austin, Texas) 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
Youth and amateur
Pope attended
Stony Point High School, and played
college soccer 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 ...
on a partial soccer scholarship, graduating with a psychology degree and a minor in sociology.
He was drafted in the third round (40th overall) in the
2008 MLS Supplemental Draft The 2008 MLS Supplemental Draft was held on January 24, 2008, six days after the 2008 MLS SuperDraft, as teams filled out their developmental rosters.
Changes from 2007
* 2008 expansion club San Jose Earthquakes received the first pick in each roun ...
by
Chicago Fire, but was not offered a professional contract with the team. He would later rejoin Chicago Fire reserves and F.C. Dallas reserves in the 2008 season; after an abbreviated stint with the
Rochester Rhinos, he joined the Aztex junior team,
Austin Aztex U23 in 2008.
Professional
Pope joined the
USL First Division expansion franchise
Austin Aztex
The Austin Aztex were a soccer team based in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 2011 as a member of the Premier Development League, the team played the 2015 season in the United Soccer League, the second tier of the United States soccer pyr ...
in March 2009. He made his professional debut on April 18, 2009, in Austin's USL1 season opener against
Minnesota Thunder.
He was released by the Aztex at the end of the 2009 season.
Austin Announces Release Of 14 Players From The 2009 Squad
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He is currently the assistant soccer coach at Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX.
References
External links
Duke profile
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1986 births
Living people
American men's soccer players
Austin Aztex players
Austin Aztex FC players
Austin Aztex U23 players
Austin Lightning players
Duke Blue Devils men's soccer players
Rochester New York FC players
USL First Division players
USL League Two players
Chicago Fire FC draft picks
Soccer players from Texas
Men's association football defenders