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Union Omaha Academy Product Yoskar Galvan-Mercado Signs with First Team

February 10, 2022 - United Soccer League One (USL1)
Union Omaha News Release


PAPILLION, Neb. - Union Omaha today announced that 18-year-old Yoskar Galvan-Mercado will return to the club for the 2022 campaign on a professional contract. The signing, pending league and federation approval, makes Galvan-Mercado the youngest professional player in club history after Galvan-Mercado joined the first team on an academy contract in August 2021.

Galvan-Mercado is a 2021 Lexington High School graduate who also played with Gretna's Elite Academy. While at Lexington from 2017-2021, Galvan-Mercado was named to the 2021 Boys super-state second team and the Boys Class B all-state team.

Galvan-Mercado was one of 15 players from several Nebraska and Iowa high schools that Head Coach Jay Mims put together in the fall of 2019 for a United Soccer League (USL) Academy Cup tournament in San Antonio, Texas. This was the first-ever group to wear the Union Omaha crest and represent Nebraska at a USL event.

"We are thrilled to be a part of this exciting process for Yoskar as he has a bright future ahead and his dream has become a reality," said Mims. "Through the Union Omaha and USL partnership with Bellevue University, he will now be able to continue his education while playing professional soccer which was important to all of us."

"I'm thankful and blessed to have the opportunity to sign my first professional contract," said Galvan-Mercado. "It's been my dream since I was a little kid, and I'm making this dream a reality. I can't wait to be able to play in front of our amazing fanbase again - Viva Búhos!"

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