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St. Croix Legends
== St. Croix Legends is an American Mens soccer team based in Stillwater, Minnesota. St. Croix Legends competes in the Deep North Division of the USL League 2. Legends was founded in 2022. The team plays its home games at TCO Stadium in Eagan, Minnesota which is the same stadium the Minnesota Vikings play in. The previous 2 seasons were played at Stillwater Area High School. The team's colors are black, gold and white. Legends was created by St. Croix Soccer Club who celebrates its 40th Season as a club in 2024. ==

History
Legends was founded in 2022 by St. Croix Soccer Club in order to create a pre professional pathway to the top of the Youth Pyramid. St. Croix Soccer Club is a youth club which has a national platform called ECNL and its oldest age group is U19. Now by adding Legends, players can compete at USL2, UPSL and USL Academy giving players in college or post college a chance to come back home and play at the highest level of amateurism in the United States. Legends added a UPSL side in 2023 giving it now a Legends II.

Legends first game was held against the reigning USL2 National Champion Des Moines Menece on May 14, 2022. Legends shocked the Menece in front of its home supporters going up 2-0 in Des Moines, IA with two goals scored by Telvin Vah in the first half before eventually losing 6-2. The highlight of the game was Menence game tying goal right before halftime with a Bicycle kick goal which was Top 10 on SportsCenter the next morning.

Staff

 * Tyler Oliver - USL2 Head Coach
 * Jake Smothers - UPSL Head Coach
 * Nich Zuchowski - Assistant Coach
 * Alex Schnobrich - Assistant Coach
 * Casey Holm - President of Soccer Operations / GM
 * Nathan Klonecki - CEO and Chairman
 * Trey Scott - President of Business Operations
 * Brooke Kjos - Director of Game Day Operations
 * Donna Luttinen - Admin
 * Mark and Mike Kilkelly - PA Announcers