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BAY CITY, Mich. – Northern Michigan University Men’s Soccer placed four onto Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference All-GLIAC Men’s Soccer teams with freshman Ryan Palmbaum (Rocklin, Calif.) being named the GLIAC Freshman of the Year.

Palmbaum was a key proponent to this year’s squad as the paced the Wildcats with eight goals and six assists for a total of 22 points. The freshman tallied two game-winning goals and made program history with the fastest hat trick in school history and second fastest in NCAA Division II history by scoring three goals in less than four minutes in a victory over Upper Iowa University.  His eight goals are the second most in a single season in program history while his six assists and 55 shots are both single season school records.

Palmbaum was joined on the All-GLIAC Second Team by senior Callum Olpin (Norwich, England) and freshman Francisco Espinoza (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Olpin was named as a midfielder and tallied two goals and three assists this season on a total of 36 shots, putting 20 on goal. He finished the year with .556 shot on goal percentage. This was his second All-GLIAC selection after being named to the First Team last season.

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ASHLAND, Ohio – Freshman Ryan Palmbaum (Rocklin, Calif.) was named to the NCAA Division 2 Conference Commissioners Association All-Midwest Region Second Team.

Palmbaum was named the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year and was a key proponent to this year’s squad as he paced the Wildcats with eight goals and six assists for a total of 22 points.

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BAY CITY, Mich. – Northern Michigan University Men’s Soccer freshman Ryan Palmbaum (Rocklin, Calif.) was named the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Player of the Week after he posted the second fastest hat trick in NCAA Division II Men’s Soccer history.

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Joel Soñora and Ryan Palmbaum are two American youngsters from very different backgrounds who have three crucial things in common: Both are working their way up Boca Juniors’ famous youth system, are part of US youth national teams and play in the creative attacking midfield role.

But it’s there the similarities end.

Soñora (above) was born in 1996 in Dallas, where his legendary Argentine father Diego was playing for Dallas Burn. The US U-20 international grew up predominantly in Argentina and while he understands English, he isn’t fluent.

For 13-year-old Palmbaum, a US U-14 international, the struggle was uprooting from Northern California to join Argentina’s Estudiantes de La Plata three years ago without knowing so much as a word of Spanish. He had no relationship with the country outside of former player, consultant and coaching mentor Maximiliano Roditis, who has traveled back and forth from the US to aid the integration process and guide Palmbaum in his technical development.

Ryan successfully joined Boca Juniors, home of world class legends such as Diego Maradona, Juan Roman Riquelme, Carlos Tevez, and many more. Over 50,000 players have tried out for Boca this year and Ryan was one of the very few to have make it into the team. It’s been a tremendous year for Ryan where he’s also been called up for the National team. – See more at: https://maximilianoroditis.com/index.html#sthash.lU7dUHGa.dpuf

RYAN PALMBAUM, is at the First Training Camp of 2013-14 Cycle at U.S. Soccer NTC in Carson, Calif. Ryan is one of the only two players that play their club ( Estudiantes de la Plata ) soccer with development teams outside the United States.. – See more at: https://maximilianoroditis.com/index.html#sthash.o1xOoSWk.dpuf

RYAN’S great year at Estudiantes Del La Plata (arg) payed off with a call from US U14 Head Coach, Hugo Perez, for the upcoming training camp from Nov. 17-25 at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. The training camp, the second of the year for the ‘99s age group and Only four 2000′ including RYAN PALMBAUM. He will be going back to Estudiantes in two months, where he will continue to develop as a footballer. –