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Real Salt Lake defeats US Amateurs, 4-2

February 8, 2006 - Major League Soccer (MLS)
Real Salt Lake News Release


SALT LAKE CITY (Wednesday, February 8, 2006) - Real Salt Lake notched its first win of the preseason yesterday with a 4-2 victory over the U.S. Amateur Team at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. RSL's four goals were scored by MF Luke Kreamalmeyer, MF Adolfo Gregorio, FW Atiba Harris and FW Adam Acosta.

RSL controlled the pace throughout much of the first half, but conceded the first goal in the 26th minute when the U.S. Amateur team exploited a bad back pass to ‘keeper Noah Palmer. Real tied the game late in the first half when Kreamalmeyer scored on a 30-yard free kick that bent into the upper right-hand corner of the goal in the 40th minute.

Real began the second half with a complete lineup change. Just ten minutes into the second half, MF Robert Scarlett played a ball through to St. Kitts & Nevis' trialist Atiba Harris who scored the team's second goal in the 55th minute. The 20-year-old Harris spurned RSL's third goal when he played a ball across the top of the box to Acosta. The University of Redlands product then laid it off to Gregorio who chipped the ball over the U.S. Amateur ‘keeper in the 68th minute.

The U.S. Amateur squad added a goal to make it 3-2 after RSL failed to clear a corner kick in the 69th minute. Nonetheless, RSL sealed the game when Acosta ran onto a through ball from Gregorio for the easy goal in the 84th minute.

Scoring Summary:

RSL - Luke Kreamalmeyer (unassisted) ‘40

RSL - Atiba Harris (Robert Scarlett) ‘55

RSL - Adolfo Gregorio (Adam Acosta) ‘68

RSL - Adam Acosta (Adolfo Gregorio) ‘84

Real Salt Lake Reserves - Noah Palmer (Chase Harrison), Willis Forko (Ryan Johnson), Lookingland (Nelson Akwari), Nik Besagno (Jake Besagno), Sergio Flores (Kevin Novak), Kenny Cutler (Tiger Fitzpatrick), Christian Jimenez (Robert Scarlett), Mehdi Ballouchy (Diego Walsh), Luke Kreamalmeyer (Adolfo Gregorio), Jeff Rowland (Atiba Harris), Melvin Tarley (Adam Acosta).

2006 RSL PRESEASON SCHEDULE (Dates/times subject to change)

DAY/DATE OPPONENT/EVENT SITE RESULT/TIME (MT) RECORD

Wednesday, Feb. 1 Training Camp Begins IMG Academy - Bradenton, FL until Friday, Feb. 17

Tuesday, Feb. 7 U.S. Amateur Team IMG Academy - Bradenton, FL W 4-2 1-0-0

Wednesday, Feb. 8 MetroStars IMG Academy - Bradenton, FL 8:00 a.m.

Thursday, Feb. 9 U.S. U-17 Men's National Team IMG Academy - Bradenton, FL 4:00 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 12 Columbus Crew* Spartan Stadium - Tampa, FL 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 15 Kansas City Wizards IMG Academy - Bradenton, FL 8:00 a.m.

Friday, Feb. 17 D.C. United IMG Academy - Bradenton, FL 8:00 a.m.

Friday, Feb. 17 Training Camp Continues Ft. Lauderdale, FL until Thursday, March 2

Saturday, Feb. 25 Houston 1836 RRISD Athletic Complex - Austin, TX 5:00 p.m.

Monday, March 6 Training Camp Continues Salt Lake City, UT until Sunday, March 12

Thursday, March 16 Final Leg of Training Camp Univ. of Redlands, Redlands, CA until Friday, March 24

Friday, March 17 Los Angeles Galaxy Reserves Home Depot Center - Carson, CA 11:00 a.m.

Sunday, March 19 Chivas USA Univ. of Redlands, Redlands, CA TBD

Saturday, March 25 University of Portland Portland, OR 8:30 p.m.

*Second Annual Tom Fitzgerald Memorial Soccer Festival in Tampa, Fla.

RSL TO THANK SUPPORTERS AT USA-JAPAN WATCH PARTY ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10: Real Salt Lake, in conjunction with Major League Soccer, invites fans to come join the Supporters and RSL front office staff at Iggy's Sports Grill located at 677 South 200 West in Salt Lake City on Friday, February 10 with kickoff at 9:00 p.m. MT as they thank The Loyalists and Rogue Cavaliers Brigade for winning the ESPN Supporters Challenge. In conjunction, fans will be able to watch the U.S. Men's National Team battle Japan at SBC Park in San Francisco, Calif. on the big screen television in the back room at Iggy's, live on ESPN2.

The Loyalists and Rogue Cavaliers Brigade teamed up to participate in the challenge at RSL's last ESPN2 game against Chivas USA on August 6, 2005. The two supporter groups earned the honor by beating out the supporters of the 11 other teams from around MLS. As part of the winning the competition, The Loyalists and Rogue Cavaliers Brigade will be featured in the 2006 MLS advertising campaign.

2006 RSL SEASON, MINI-PLAN AND FLEX TICKET PACKAGES ON SALE: The RSL 2006 season ticket package features 20 games, including all 16 MLS regular season games and four special bonus games. Real Salt Lake's season ticket pricing remains level with the 2005 prices, and consists of Youth (15 and younger) and Adult in five price levels. Prices for the 2006 season ticket packages are $200 adult ($180 youth) for the North Goal, $300 adult ($240 youth) for the Corner Flag, $400 ($320 youth) for East Sideline, $500 ($400 youth) for VIP and $1,000 ($1,000 youth) Club seats.

The 2006 half season plan features 10 games (to be announced once the MLS 2006 schedule is announced), including nine MLS regular-season games and one special bonus game. Real Salt Lake's mini-plan ticket pricing consists of Youth (15 and younger) and Adult in four price levels. Prices for the 2005 mini-plan season ticket packages are $130 adult ($110 youth) for the North Goal, $180 adult ($150) for the Corner Flag, $220 adult ($180 youth) for East Sideline and $300 adult ($230 youth) for VIP seats.

To add more options for fans, RSL is also offering the flex season ticket package, which is comprised of twenty vouchers of the same price category (North Goal, Corner Flag, Premium and VIP) that allows the purchaser to determine which games they would like to see in the regular reason and how many tickets needed for that game. Prices for the 2005 Flex Package are $280 for the North Goal, $340 for the Corner Flag, $440 for the East Sideline and $560 for the VIP seats. Tickets can be redeemed in the following way: one could use all the vouchers and bring 20 people to one game or 4 people could attend five games. Flex vouchers are discounted from the day of game pricing making it an even greater value.

All tickets can be purchased by visiting the RSL Ticket Office at 515 South 700 East, #2R, SLC, UT 84102, by logging onto www.RealSaltLake.com or by contacting the Real Salt Lake Ticket Office at (866) 9-SOCCER.

ACCESS REAL: Real fans can now receive up-to-date information on the team by signing up for the RSL Weekly Newsletter on our website at http://real.saltlake.mlsnet.com/MLS/rsl/fans/.

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