Kean Men’s Soccer Team Look to Defend Conference Championship Win from Last Season

By Ruben Nieves | Published September 30, 2022

Men’s soccer season has officially begun here at Kean University. Coming off of an NJAC championship and an appearance in the NCAA tournament, Kean looks to defend their conference championship win from last season. 

When preparing for this season, head coach Peter-John Falloon did say there were some hurdles getting ready for the season and ensured that this team will have a target on their back following the conference championship win. 

“It’s another year, what we did last year doesn’t matter,” Falloon said. “Everybody will be coming for you.”

The season started with the Tony Ochrimenko Classic, where Kean won their first game against Centenary University 1-0 and defeated Brooklyn College 7-0 to start their season at 2-0. In their first road trip of the season, they would tie with Franklin and Marshall College and lose to the University of Scranton 1-0. 

The team would lose one more game to Swarthmore College before going on a two-game win streak with wins over Misericordia University and John Jay College and losing a game to Drew University. 

“It has been inconsistent, it needs to be more consistent, we need to focus and concentrate more,” Falloon said. “We need to score more goals; we’re not scoring goals.”

Despite losing their game against Swarthmore College, Falloon thought that was their best performance since the start of the season. .

“They showed character, fight, and determination and even though we didn’t get the result we wanted, we also created the most chances for the season,” Falloon said.

With conference play set to begin Sept. 24 on the road against Rowan University, Falloon wants to take the season one day at a time and win the next game.

With ten games left in the season, nine of the last ten games are conference opponents for Kean’s men’s soccer team. 

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