- November 21, 2024
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Ramtin Amiri expects this to be his final season playing for the Royal Palms Soccer Club of the United Premier Soccer League.
The Flagler Palm Coast High School boys soccer coach will undergo shoulder surgery at the end of July.
Amiri scored two goals on Sunday, June 25, in a 5-0 victory over High Soccer Prospects of Orlando in the first round of the UPSL Division 1 Florida Central Conference playoffs.
Royal Palms SC, based in Palm Coast, will play in the conference semifinals on July 2 in Tampa. Royal Palms finished the spring season with a 7-3-1 record for fourth place in the 12-team conference. The team is riding an eight-game unbeaten streak.
Amiri has scored nine goals in nine games this season. He has been playing for Royal Palms SC since its first season, in 2020. The playoff win was his 40th career game, and he now has 35 career goals. Both are all-time highs for the club.
He scheduled the surgery one week after Royal Palms SC’s final possible playoff game.
“It’s been damaged for a while,” Amiri said of his shoulder. “It will be a while before I can play again.”
Other local players on Royal Palms SC’s roster include Nate Monsanto, an FPC grad and former Stetson University soccer player, and goalie Tanner Paulo, who played for Amiri at FPC in 2022.
“We have high school kids to guys in their 30s. I play with kids I have coached or currently coach,” said Amiri, who spends most of his time coaching three teams in the Ancient City Soccer Club.
The UPSL was founded in 2011 in Southern California and now has over 400 teams in 41 states. The league has two divisions: the top-tier Premier Division and the second-tier Division 1. The USPL is a national affiliate of the Unites States Soccer Federation.
We have high school kids to guys in their 30s. I play with kids I have coached or currently coach." — RAMTIN AMIRI
Mário Dos Santos is the president of Royal Palms SC. He co-founded the club with George Pereira in 2019. The team trains at the Indian Trails Sports Complex. There are over 50 players on the roster. Eighteen players are active for each game.
Other locals who have played for Royal Palms SC in the past include Matanzas High School grads Josh O’Hara, Brandt Herron and Dakotah Casale and FPC grads Luis Corazon, Myles Clymer and Mason Anderson. For more information on the team, visit facebook.com/RoyalPalmsSC.
