New faces dominated the 30-player boys’ All-Europe soccer squads selected last week by a panel of coaches chaired by DOSS-Europe athletic coordinator Karen Seadore.

A mere five holdovers from the 2011 Top 30, led by Alconbury junior striker Jeff Black, returned this season. Black, who scored 16 goals and handed out six assists in nine games this season, was a first-team choice in 2010 and 2011.

Joining Black on the 2012 Top 30 are repeat first-team striker Alessandro Pryce of Division I champion International School of Brussels and second-team choices Taylor Curry of Vicenza, Tyler Grissett of Alconbury and Tyler Lewis of Vilseck, a first-team selection when he played for Bamberg in 2011.

No one team dominated the selections – unbeaten ISB placed Pryce and center midfielder Lukas MacNaughton on the first team and their fellow junior, midfielder Stijn Kruidenier, on the second 15. Vicenza and Naples, both D-II schools, each placed three on the Top 30, but just one of the six made the first team.

That player was senior forward Ronaldo Reyter II, who accounted for 20 of Vicenza’s 32 goals in 2012. His teammates John Camuso and Curry made the second 15 as did the Naples trio of senior Krste Maleski, junior Bryan Pfirrmann and the lone freshman selected, striker Brenton Bonnema. Bonnema found the net seven times in his first varsity season.

Midfielders Cameron Hansen of Ramstein and Brian Thomas of Sigonella, both first-team selections, and Wiesbaden midfielder John Arnold, voted to the second team, were the lone sophomores to make All-Europe this year; 10 juniors and 16 seniors filled out the squads.

Fifteen of the 2012 All-Europeans were drawn from Division I schools; eight players from just three schools – Hohenfels, Naples and Vicenza - are the D-II representatives, and seven players from four D-III schools round out the squad. Both Hohenfels representatives – senior forward Devon Fluker, a 12-goal scorer who assisted on six others, and senior midfielder Jacob Witty, who chalked up eight goals and 11 assists – were first-team choices. 

Here are the 2012 boys’ All-Europe soccer teams:
 

First Team

Second team

Selection panel — Karen Seadore, DODDS-Europe athletic coordinator; Phillip Andre, Sigonella; Jeffrey Black, Alconbury; Tony Harris, SHAPE; Craig Lord, Naples; Dominik Ludes, Ramstein; Billy Ratcliff, Patch; Ken Robinson, Kaiserslautern; Shawn Rodman, Hohenfels.

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