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  Hi and welcome back to a weekly wrap up of Tormenta news. I keep hoping to get out to practice but it hasn’t worked out yet for me and I feel bad about that. Hopefully I can get out there soon and actually meet some of the guys and talk to the coaches and do some actual reporting and newsgathering. Until that time comes, we’ll do a weekly wrap up of Tormenta news as we continue our slow march to March 8 and the season opener. Where to start? US Open Cup Let’s start with the US Open Cup, which announced the first round games for the 2026 edition. Tormenta will be kicking off the whole shebang as they host (takes a deep breath) FC America CFL Spurs on March 17 at 6 p.m. That will be the first game of the opening round, so for at least 30 minutes, the eyes of the US Open Cup world will be on Tormenta Stadium. The two teams met back in the first round of the 2024 US Open Cup with Tormenta coming away with a 1-0 win on a Nick Akoto early goal. South Georgia advanced to the third roun...

  We are back for the start of my fifth season covering South Georgia Tormenta and one of these years I might actually start to feel like I know what I’m doing. Until that time I’m going to keep churning out these posts in the hopes that no one calls me on it. It’s been another busy offseason at Tormenta, as is their custom, with a couple of transfers out to USL Championship, others leaving at the end of their contract, several returning players and a host of new faces set to take the field for South Georgia in 2026. Let’s take a look at the offseason so far for Tormenta and what that portends for the 10th year of South Georgia Tormenta soccer. This is the first offseason Manager Mark McKeever has been at the helm of Tormenta. However, recruiting players to Statesboro was going to be one of his responsibilities when he was initially hired by Tormenta midway through the 2025 campaign, so this wasn’t an entirely unforeseen expectation of his. So how has it gone so far? Well, seven pl...

Photo Credit: Tormenta FC Being a sports fan is inherently a selfish endeavor. We spend our time, our treasure and, more than we'd like to admit, our emotional well-being investing in a team. We follow the players and, here at Tormenta, get to know them during their tenure here. We watch them grow and develop and that's all well and good, but we want to see them win games for South Georgia. And there are players that you're going to grow attached to. Whether that be because of some connection we forge with that player or just because we like how they play or they signed an autograph for you, we want them to be here year after year. The baseball postcast Effectively Wild has a term for this. They call it the "Jersey Guy." It's the jersey you can buy your 10-year old niece or nephew and feel confident they can wear it for a few years because that guy is going to be around for a few years. What kid wants to have the jersey of the guy who got traded four months af...