Florida Tropics Game Notes – OurSports Central

January 2, 2023 – Major Arena Soccer League (MASL) – Florida Tropics SC News Release

LAST TIME / ALL TIME – This will be the seventh all time meeting between the two teams., with the Tropics
having a record of 5-1 against the team formerly known as the Ontario Fury. That includes a perfect mark of
3-0 at Toyota Arena. The last game between the two came March 30 last spring when Florida took a 6-3 win
at Toyota Arena. Zach Reget had three goals, while Victor Parreiras had a goal and two assists. Jorge
Navarete got the win in goal. Zach Reget is the active all-time leading goal scorer against Empire with six
goals while Franck Tayou is Empire’s all-time leading active scorer against the Tropics with 10 goals.

VIVA VINI! — One of the most dangerous target forwards over the past eight years in the Major Arena
Soccer League – Vini Dantas – has joined the Florida Tropics on a two-year deal to start the 2022-23 season
… Dantas played most of those years with the Baltimore Blast, starting his career the 2014-15 season –
when he earned All MASL Rookie Team honors – and was an immediate offensive force, scoring 16 goals in
15 games. Since that time, he has gone on to score 197 goals and add 98 assists in 162 career regular
season and playoff games. A physical presence at 6′-1″ and 200 pounds, the 32-year old native of Sao Paulo,
Brazil, had his best season in 2019-20 when he banged home 37 goals and added 17 assists in 22 games.

He was traded to the Tacoma Stars prior to the start of the 2020-21 season, and was traded back to the Blast
with just three games remaining in the 2021-22 campaign. He finished last season with 19 goals in 16
games played, to go along with eight assists for 27 total points. … He was a key part of Baltimore’s three-
straight MASL championships between 2017-2019, and was the 2017 Most Valuable Player in the playoffs,
getting the game-winning goal in the finals against Sonora. He ended that post season with 18 total points
(nine goals and nine assists) in nine games.

WE LIKE MIKE – Mike Jones was acquired in a trade with the Dallas Sidekicks in late December. The
defender was traded for Tropics forward VcMor Eligwe.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION – More information on the 2022-23 Tropics can be found at www.fltropics.com.

Under the news tab, you will find the team’s 193-page record book. The record book was created and
compiled by the Tropics official photographer Christopher Arnold.

A TERRIFIC TRIO – The last three years have been very good…