A new era of soccer is officially underway in western Pennsylvania.
With a fresh logo, new kits and a television deal scheduled for the upcoming season, Riverhounds SC is bringing new enthusiasm to the pitch in 2018. At a season ticket holder event on Friday, the team announced these changes, among others, it has undertaken this offseason.
“It’s new energy,” said head coach Bob Lilley, who enters his first season with the team. “It’s us saying we are going to take another step forward.”
The new logo is a circular badge, featuring the wording “Pittsburgh” at the top and “Riverhounds SC” at the bottom, each connected by a bridge. In the center, a shield contains a Hounds paw and a soccer ball. To symbolize the three rivers of Pittsburgh, water rests below the shield, and “1999” flanks it to showcase the club’s inaugural season.
A few other changes touched on during the event include plans to expand Highmark Stadium and a television deal with Pittsburgh’s CW to broadcast all road games and select home games for the 2018 campaign. More details on these announcements will be released in the near future.
“It’s going to take a lot of work, but we’re going to continue to grow this thing – not just on the field, but in the organization,” Lilley said. “We’re going to put the work in, and I think the players, the ones that are here back from last year, I think they’re hungry to win as well.”
A few of the players back from last year were featured in the jersey reveal. Modeling the new gold, black and white kits were returning players Joe Greenspan, Kevin Kerr and Romeo Parkes, respectively. The gold will be the team’s home kits for the upcoming season.
“There has been so much progress,” Lilley said, “but we want more as an organization. To grow and reach more people, to create a bigger environment, to win things and to represent the City of Pittsburgh successfully.”
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