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Monarchs Add Uruguayan FW Max Rauhofer

April 15, 2015 - United Soccer League Championship (USL)
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Sandy, Utah (Wed., April 15, 2015) - Real Monarchs SLC Head Coach Freddy Juarez today announced that the club has signed FW Max Rauhofer, a 24-year old, dual-national Uruguayan/Italian target forward. Nicknamed "Tanque," Rauhofer - who will wear #9 - has received his visa and international transfer certificate, allowing him to be eligible for Friday's game at Colorado Springs (7:00 p.m. MT, www.RealMonarchs.com).

Rauhofer (pronounced ROWW - hoff - er) joins Real Monarchs (0-2-2, 2 pts) from a club called Sud America in the Campeonato Uruguayo league, where he has played the last two seasons after four years with the Liverpool club in his nation's same domestic league. Rauhofer became a professional at the age of 14 with Deportivo Maldonado - his hometown club - in 2005, before a three-year stint abroad in Spain with Albacete (Segunda B).

"Max is a 6-foot-1 striker, a true number nine, which is something we need to add to our mix," said Monarchs Head Coach Freddy Juarez. "Rauhofer has a physical presence, holds the ball well, is good in the air and has excellent feet for a big man. He will also bring experience and professionalism to our side, as he's played on competitive, scrappy teams that have competed for spots in Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana tournaments. Our young players will certainly learn from him."

The latest Real Monarchs roster and player bios for the club's inaugural 2015 USL season can be viewed at http://realmonarchs.com/player-bios/, while highlights and post-game reaction from the club's first four games - including both of last week's matches at Rio Tinto Stadium - reside at www.RealMonarchs.com.

Juarez - a native of Las Cruces, New Mexico who has several years of experience at the RSL-AZ Academy and recently participated in a two-year Major League Soccer program with the French Football Federation - leads the Monarchs through its inaugural season, with another road game Friday at Colorado Springs, as the club seeks to exact revenge on the Switchbacks, who won 1-0 at Rio Tinto Stadium last Saturday.

The Monarchs have two more games this April in Sandy, hosting "Los Dos" LA Galaxy II on Saturday, April 25, at 8:00 p.m. MT, prior to a visit from the reigning USL champion Sacramento Republic FC on Wednesday, April 29 at 7:00 p.m.

TICKET INFORMATION Monarchs single-game tickets on sale for the USL club's Inaugural Season. All Monarchs seating will be on West Side of Rio Tinto Stadium, with tickets ranging from $11 / $14 / $17 and $25. Group Seats begin at just $8 each, with a meal deal added for just $4 more. Contact Group Events for more details at 801.727.2862 or visit http://realmonarchs.com/tickets/group-tickets/.

Pro-rated Monarchs Season Tickets (12-game plan) remain on sale as well, with the 15,000+ existing Real Salt Lake PRIDE members receiving preferred pricing to become a Monarchs Founding Member, while the general public can #EmbraceTheFuture starting at just $8 per game in the USL club's season package. A new "Family Food and Drink" season-ticket package has been added for the season, with each game ticket including a hotdog, a soft drink and popcorn.

ABOUT THE MONARCHS Real Salt Lake Owner Dell Loy Hansen has formed the Monarchs as an elite lower-division professional squad which bridges the gap between Real Salt Lake and the club's highly-lauded academy at the Grande Sports complex in Arizona, which has produced a perennial pipeline of NCAA Division I players, young professionals and has consistently competed for numerous national championships at the U-18 and U-16 levels in recent years.

The club has ambitiously announced plans to break ground later this year on an 8,000-seat stadium in West Valley City, near the Maverik Center, on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley. The future home of the Monarchs, an NWSL club, and other ancillary professional and community events could open in 2017.

ABOUT USL The rising tide of soccer across North America is unstoppable. The world's game will also be the No. 1 sport here, in time. Never before has the time been more right for the USL to rise to the occasion and be recognized as the new-generation professional league it has become. Now is our time. Soccer is rising, and so is the USL. This season, we will boast 24 competing clubs, a number that has doubled since 2011. Since then, more than 1.7 million committed soccer fans have passed through the turnstiles in support of their local clubs. The USL is rising.

The 2015 season features the debuts of 13 new USL clubs - seven of which will be owned and operated by MLS clubs - in Austin, Charlotte, Colorado Springs, Louisville, Montreal (Impact), New York (Red Bulls), Portland (Timbers), Saint Louis, Salt Lake (RSL), Seattle (Sounders FC), Toronto (FC), Tulsa, and Vancouver (Whitecaps FC).

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