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The Worthington Community Football Club is expanding its team for year five in the United Premier Soccer League, aiming for a championship after a strong previous season. They started this year with a 5-0 victory against Bana Mboka FC, with Velasquez scoring four goals.
Apr. 16—WORTHINGTON — Year five for the Worthington Community Football Club has already begun and the team is expanding.
Despite being in year three in the United Premier Soccer League, the Toros have already become one of the strongest in the region and they have championship aspirations this season after coming so close last year.
Last year was a big one for WCFC as it went 8-0-2 in the regular season and hosted its first ever playoff game. But the Toros lost a 2-1 heartbreaker to the rival Omaha Street Futbol Club in the NE-SD-IA division championship.
So far this year, the Toros are off to a great start.
They earned a 5-0 shutout of Bana Mboka FC Sunday in Omaha, Nebraska. Velasquez scored four goals in that match and Salisbury scored once.
Next up in the WCFC schedule is its first home match against Super Stars FC on Saturday. It will mark the first of five home matches this year.
The motivation to take it a step further is strong and there's plenty of reason to believe the Toros can do it.
For starters, they have plenty of players on their roster, both returning and incoming. It also has a nice mix of local, national and international stars.
One of the key returning starters is center back Harry Twinn from Newcastle, England.
Twinn is beginning his second season with the club and he plays college soccer at North Iowa Area Community College in Mason City.
He believes WCFC can be a champion and the belief the team has in that sentiment is strong, as is the love of the game.
"The biggest thing for the team that drives everyone, is everyone just falls in love with the club," Twinn said. "You have to, it's a part of being there and that's why everyone fights so hard for it... The only outcome this season for us is we win the conference, we win the playoffs, and we go to nationals as well."
Coming from a nation with such a long and storied history in soccer, Twinn has been around the sport his entire life, playing it basically since he could walk. In August 2024, he came to the United States to play college soccer at NIACC.
When Twinn first came to America to play college soccer, he noticed the style of play is quite different in the U.S. than in England.
"Everyone plays a different way and when you're on a pitch, you can tell they aren't from England, you wouldn't really see players play that style in England," Twinn said. "But when you all come together, you all play under one tactical view, but everyone can put their own spin on it, which is really good."
After his freshman year, Twinn was approached about the opportunity to keep playing soccer in the summer for the Toros.
"Four years in the long term is so short," he said. "Stay over summer, experience something new. It also helps get your name out there as well. Because as college players, exposure is one of the biggest things so playing in front of people and getting on the social media is a big thing for us."
The Worthington Community Football Club aims for a championship title this season after a strong performance last year.
Last season, the Toros had an impressive record of 8 wins, 0 losses, and 2 draws, and hosted their first playoff game.
In the recent match, Velasquez scored four goals and Salisbury scored one, leading to a 5-0 victory.
The Toros lost a close playoff game 2-1 to the Omaha Street Futbol Club in the NE-SD-IA division championship.

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There are plenty of other returning players back on the Toros this year, from many different parts of the world.
Some international returning talent include Vitor Matos Pereira and Giulio Palombo from Brazil, Juan Miranda from Argentina and Gerrard Uamai from Ireland.
Local returnees that were former Worthington High School players are Jonathan Banegas, Maqui Sandoval, Hugo Garcia and Carlos Castillo.
There are also longtime veterans who have been with the Toros for all five years like Miguel Moreno, Luis Echeverria, Jared Hernandez, Eli Salisbury, goalkeeper Eli Robinson and Santos Orellana.
But this year's club also features plenty of new faces, one of which is Twinn's fellow countryman and college teammate Kobi Jones from Nottingham.
Like Twinn, Jones also plays a defensive position at left back and he also grew up around the sport of soccer in England.
"My dad used to always coach, like he used to get involved with football as much as he could. And so that's where it grew on me," Jones said. "When I was four years old, he took me to this place called soccer school, and it was for people ages three to five. And that's where the love of the sport grew for me, because I just kept playing and playing."
After this season with the Toros, Jones plans to return home to play club soccer for his native country.
Other Toros newcomers on defense are Ezekiel Foltz, Xavier O'Garro, Tiago Moreira, Abdulkadir Jama, Paulo Fonte and Antonio Eduardo. New additions on the attack are Tim Berger, Samuel Ramirez, Sakarive Mahamed, Pablo Martin, Ahmed Yusuf and Diego Meza.
Another thing Twinn and Jones have in common is that they are living together this season.
As the Toros continued to expand, players not from the area were offered to stay with local residents from the Worthington community. They were also provided with possible opportunities for work.
Karen Feit is one of those local community residents who opened her doors to players starting last year.
At the time, she offered work to a group of them.
"What happened was Josue (Hernandez) said, 'Do you have anything you want done, Karen?' And I said, 'Yeah, they could do some landscaping,'" Feit said. "So the first day that they came to my house, all eight of them, and I fed them good..."
"We started talking about their living conditions and I was appalled," she added. "When I brought the boys back to their place that they were staying, I didn't know if I wanted to let them go back in that house. So I said, 'You know what? I have two bedrooms. You have the whole basement to yourself. It's a big family room and everything, and grandma will feed you.'"
Twinn was one of those eight players. He stayed in contact with Feit and asked if Jones could move in this year.
Feit has since been an avid supporter of the Toros and she has provided a good temporary home for her two players.
"Me and the other boy that had moved in last year just were really sort of confused," Twinn said. "In England, especially where we're from, you're never that generous. Even my parents had said, like, 'Are you sure she's okay with this?' and I said 'I think so.' But it almost sounded too good to be true."
And even though he has only been there for less than a week, Jones already feels comfortable.
"Harry's been telling me everything about how lovely she is, and I was just thinking to myself, 'This is too good to be true,'" Jones said. "I stepped foot through the door, stuff is down, and she's such a lovely greeting woman greeting with a hug. And she goes, 'My name's Karen, but you can call me grandma if you want,' and right then I felt like really settled in with it."
One thing the Toros are looking for is the continued and increased support from the local community, and they are taking steps toward making it happen.
"It's basically just getting them out in the in the community," Feit said. "We're also looking for help with sponsoring these guys for the lost Toros, because there are a lot of things that people don't see on the back lines."
"We want to bring more people to the site," she added. "Once you attend a Toros game, you are hooked."
April 18: vs Super Stars FC
April 26: at Capital City Roots FC
May 1: vs CB Captains FC
May 2: vs Reapers FC
May 10: at Sioux Falls Thunder FC
May 16: vs Heartland United FC
May 23: at Club Atletico Omaha
May 30: vs Garwo United FC
June 6: at Omaha Street Futbol Club