Back on his feet again: Eric Pogue recently started his ESP Next Level Elite Goalkeeper Academy over the summer. Here he works out with recent 2024 Troy Athens graduate and current Colgate University freshman Adam Ethridge at a July training session at Rochester Adams High School. Courtesy Photo | Amanda Thick, Amanda Leigh Photography.
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ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. – When Eric Pogue was growing up in a soccer-crazed community such as Troy, Michigan, he tried a little bit of everything – soccer, basketball, baseball, track and field and, again, a little bit of everything in-between.
And more.
“I tried them all,” recalled Pogue during a phone interview in early August from his Rochester Hills, Mich., home. “I played soccer and basketball, played a little baseball, ran track. I was a very athletic kid growing up. I was never a real standout in anything. Just really athletic and really competitive. I never really played on many big-time club teams. I just loved playing sports.”
Not much has changed for Pogue in terms of his love for sports, or in particular his love for soccer. Eric Pogue is now 47 and still lives in the Oakland County area north of Detroit, a longtime hotbed for and sports overall talent. He is still very competitive, but nowadays as a coach only.
“I don’t play anymore,” he said. “Just coach.
“It’s funny how things all worked out when I was in high school at Troy Athens,” continued Pogue. “I had that position change and I think that’s when doors really started to open for me.”
STANDING ALONE BETWEEN THE PIPES
Legendary Michigan Hall-of-Fame soccer coach Tim Storch, who coached at Troy Athens from 1981-2012, saw something in the then-lanky, 6-foot-2 Pogue back when he was in high school.
“He was just this athletic kid, but I thought he could be a good goalkeeper,” recalled Storch during a phone conversation earlier this year. “But we all know how that turned out.”
Pogue was a field player until 1994, where his senior season of high school soccer was set to begin at he aforementioned Troy Athens High School some 17 miles north of Detroit. Pogue’s high school was not just another school, but a state powerhouse in the state of Michigan in boys soccer and girls soccer dating back to its debut boys soccer season in 1981 when Pogue was only two years old. Storch was just out of college from Central Michigan and by 1994 was already in his 14th season at the helm.
The Red Hawks had already captured state titles in 1981, 1983, 1984 and 1989 and by the time Eric Pogue was a senior, Athens had remained quite relevant in terms of being one of the premier high school programs in the state.
Athens was known for pumping out quality players year-in and year-out, especially goalkeepers, along with its fair share of dynamic field players and goal scorers. Pogue’s athletic frame and sure hands helped him make the move from playing forward or midfield over to the goalkeeper position.
The experiment more than worked.
Athens finished 12-5-3 that season some 30 years ago – that included a win over nationally-ranked Birmingham Detroit Country Day which at the time, was a powerhouse program who hadn’t lost many games in the previous decade to anyone. DCD won eight straight state titles in Michigan in the 1980s and early 1990s, a then-national record, and finished 23-1-1 during that 1994 season.
The lone loss that season was to Athens and some new-found goalkeeper named Eric Pogue, who discovered a new home standing alone between the pipes. The framework of success was being planted.
“I never would have thought about that when I entered high school,” laughed Pogue about being a great goalkeeper. “I thought I was a goal scorer.”
Athens went on to finish a respectable 12-5-3 that season, and even though the Red Hawks did not win a league or district that year (rival Troy captured those crowns), Pogue turned a few heads throughout the course of the 1994 campaign with his shot-stopping ability, great range, and willingness to adapt to his new surroundings.
The experiment turned out to be a game-changer. Tim Storch turned out to be a genius and Pogue’s soccer career took an entirely different direction over a period of less than three months.
“That whole situation turned out to be a blessing,” noted Pogue, who also played two seasons of varsity basketball and track and field while in high school. “I don’t know where I’d be if I didn’t switch positions.”
Someone took notice.
Gary Parsons was the coach of nearby NCAA Division II national powerhouse Oakland University, which had advanced to a multipede of national tournament appearances and annually contended for league championships in the old GLIAC (Great Lakes Interscholastic Athletic Conference). Parsons, who found stellar success at OU from 1981 through the 2008 collegiate season recruiting a wide variety of local players and foreign-born prospects, had found his diamond-in-the-rough less than 10 miles away. Parsons offered Pogue some scholarship money to be a part of the then-Pioneers stellar soccer program (now the Golden Grizzlies).
Pogue was an unknown but was a fast-riser as a goalkeeper.
Steady Presence: Eric Pogue sets up to stop a penalty kick attempt as a youth soccer player. Pogue spent his days at Troy Athens High School before climbing the college and amateur soccer charts.
“Gary Parsons took a chance on me and gave me a shot,” recalled Pogue. “Not bad for a local kid who was just an average field player (who did) not playing high level of club. I had just switched to goalkeeper.”
Pogue also continued his development as a keeper in the spring of 1995 with his club soccer team inside the Troy Premier Soccer Association, the community of Troy’s youth club and recreational soccer system.
His parents, sibling and countless friends mentored him or supported him as his career progressed up the charts like a fast-rising single on the Billboard Hot 100.
“I had a lot of support. Whatever I was doing, I had a lot of people that stood me as (I progressed up the soccer ladder),” added Pogue, who further mentioned that his mom, Gale Ann Pogue was his biggest fan.
MORE GREENER PASTURES
After graduating from Troy Athens in 1995, Pogue was redshirted at at Oakland behind a long list of standouts on the beautiful campus that sits on the borderline of Rochester Hills and Auburn Hills, Michigan, and nestled in the hills where the soccer stadium and facilities still stands today, although in a slightly different place.
Pogue also had the option of going to play NCAA Division I college soccer and transferred up to Western Michigan University after the fall 1995 campaign. Oakland was still an NCAA Division II school at the time and didn’t make the jump up to D-I until later in the decade, going through a multi-year period between D-II and D-I athletics right after Pogue’s departure.
Pogue went on to play four seasons at WMU for then-coach Chris Karwoski. In the fall of 1999, Pogue earned All-Mid-American Conference Second Team and All-MAC Tournament honors and was drafted into the US Soccer A-League by the Hersey (Pa.) Wildcats, one level below the Major League Soccer ranks at the time, on March 1, 2000.
The rising star with a bullet continued to climb the soccer pyramid. On Feb. 8, 2001, Pogue was selected 53rd overall in the 2001 Major League Soccer SuperDraft by the New England Revolution. Again, not bad for a kid who was as far away from being a goalkeeper seven years earlier as you can get.
“Sure, every kid dreams about being drafted in sports. But that was a great moment in my life,” said Pogue.
Pogue also shined for the fledgling Mid-Michigan Bucks of the USL-Premier Development League while in college or right after college, and also played for the Detroit Dynamite during the mid-to-late 1990s. His PDL experience began in 1996 with a two-season stint for the Detroit Dynamite before moving to the Bucks in 1998-2000 and again for the 2002 season. His PDL play also included two seasons with the Toledo Slayers (2003-04) and the 2005 season with the Chicago Fire Premier, earning the All-PDL Goalkeeper award in five different seasons playing for different franchises. Pogue has also played for the Kalamazoo Kingdom/TKO club of the PDL for parts of two seasons in that stretch.
Pogue was also getting into coaching at the time. He also served one year as an assistant coach at Western Michigan. He was building a reputation of not just being a standout player, but also a respectable youth coach, spending countless hours and days coaching youth travel teams and coaching at camps at the Troy Premier Soccer Association, TKO Soccer Club of Portage/Kalamazoo, Bloomfield Hills Soccer Club, Michigan Bucks, Detroit Country Day Academy, Midwest Soccer Camps, Michigan Bucks Soccer School, Western Michigan Soccer Camp, Oakland Soccer Camps, and Detroit Rockers Soccer Camp.
As a player, Pogue was a three-time Team MVP and a captain at Western Michigan University to add to his resume as a collegiate and amateur/semi-pro soccer player.
Oh, and Pogue made some headlines in mid-June of 2000. Playing between the pipes, Pogue was near-brilliant in the Michigan Bucks’ stunning 1-0 win over the same New England Revolution club that later drafted him. That win came in the U.S. Lamar Hunt Open Cup, an annual tournament of multi-tier soccer teams up and down the soccer pyramid in the U.S. that began way back in 1916 and still exists today.
The Bucks were just a developmental team of college players and still is today, while the New England Revolution was an original MLS professional side and still is to this day.
Eric Pogue loved playing goalkeeper and he loved coaching young soccer players who had dreams of one day playing in front of large groups of fans.
Current Western Michigan University men’s soccer coach Chad Wiseman said that during his playing days with the Broncos, Eric Pogue was a great leader, friend and teammate.
“He was a captain at Western (Michigan) when I was an underclassmen trying to find my place in college soccer,” recalled Wiseman. “I was not surprised that he excelled as a player and as a coach because I know what Eric is like as a person.”
BACK TO SCHOOL
Pogue’s professional career in the MLS didn’t last long, although he did bounce around the PDL circuit for close to a decade. Blessed with a soccer mind, he got into coaching youth club soccer more and more as time passed. Along with an assortment of player camps, ID camps, and clinics, Pogue got involved with Vardar Soccer Club, one of the top youth club systems in the nation at the time where he coached in various levels on the club circuit.
Pogue, who earned his Batchelor’s Degree of Finance and Accounting from WMU in 2000 and later earned his master’s degree in 2006 from Oakland, returned to that same Oakland campus to serve as assistant coach to the aforementioned Gary Parsons when he was still playing in the PDL. By 2002, Pogue was on staff at OU, helping with coaching, scouting and recruiting and all while serving as either Director of Coaching or an assistant camp coach at a wide variety of camps and clinics he had served at during the 90s and early 2000s.
By that time, Oakland University was a few years into the NCAA Division I world, but the now-Golden Grizzlies were still a powerhouse program in the old Mid-Continent Conference, Summit League and now the Horizon League – OU’s home since 2013.
Oakland remained a challenger at the league level throughout that period and sprinkled in some NCAA postseason berths at the D-I college level to add to the Oakland men’s soccer program storied history that dates back to 1976, some three years before Pogue was born. OU was a regular qualifier in the NCAA Division II during the late 1970s through 1996 when Oakland began its migration up to Division I.
In March of 2009 during the tail end of the college basketball regular season, Parsons walked into a small media room down the hall from the Athletics Center Orena and notified a small band of reporters that he was retiring from coaching. That left the door open for Pogue, who put his name into the hat and eventually was hired as the new head coach of the Golden Grizzlies later that spring. The forward-turned-goalkeeper-turned coach was back in the heart of tradition-rich Oakland County as a newly-appointed head coach in the NCAA Division I world.
“We had some very good teams at Oakland and I will always remember all of those teams and players,” noted Pogue.
During his career as an assistant or head coach, Oakland continued to contend for league crowns on an annual basis – rarely did Oakland ever finish outside the top half of the league – and Pogue became a six-time Coach of the Year honoree in various leagues that OU competed in during the past 25 years, including five times in the Horizon League. Pogue also helped lead OU to NCAA Division I tournament berths in 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2008 as an assistant coach and again in 2010, 2014, 2015 and 2021 as a head coach.
During this time, Pogue continued to spend several years coaching in the youth club system for a wide variety of clubs. In 2010, he was also an assistant coach at the youth level that won a youth club national title. He eventually left the youth club level a few years ago to concentrate on coaching at the college level, running camps, and taking care of his ailing mom. But he left that door open.
He was successful as both a player and coach and loved to be around the pitch – and that more than showed in the results.
Soccer mind: Eric Pogue (sitting in the middle) watch intently at a recent training session. Courtesy Photo | Amanda Thick, Amanda Leigh Photography.
THE DARK TIMES
Like anyone else, Eric Pogue’s life wasn’t always a feel-good story. Nobody’s life is all blue skies.
His parents were aging, and he eventually lost both his dad, Steven Pogue, to cancer, and mom, Gale Ann Pogue, to a variety of health issues all during his time at Oakland.
His father passed back on June 9, 2007. Several years later, Eric Pogue, along with his siblings, helped take care of his mom for a few years before her passing on Dec. 5, 2021. His parents were long-since divorced at the times of their respective passing.
“I was close with my mom. I struggled (with) losing her and losing both parents. That’s never easy for anyone,” said Pogue, whose sister Heather Hall (Pogue) still resides in the Rochester Hills area and has children that play youth or college soccer.
Along with all of that happening less than 15 years apart, Eric Pogue admits he slipped into some dark times. All of the daily stress and anxiety that coaching, recruiting, travel and everything else involved with mentoring young athletes, along with mom’s death, added up. Pogue said it took its toll on him and his mental health declined.
Pogue agreed to take a leave of absence from coaching soccer in early June of 2023. Recharging of the batteries had to be done.
Soccer was still his love. Coaching young players was still his love. Being on or around the pitch is where he loved to be more than just about anything. Still, the time off was needed and his band of assistants ran the OU soccer program for the time being.
Pogue returned to the sidelines at Oakland in mid-September of 2023, and his Golden Grizzlies made a late-season charge. OU finished 6-3-1 down the stretch, won the regular season title in the Horizon League with a 6-3-0 record, and later won two games in the Horizon League Championship Tournament before bowing out in the finals to Green Bay, 1-0, on OU’s home turf.
Oakland finished 9-9-2 overall last season after a slow start which included the normal brutally-tough non-conference schedule and the late push to the regular season title. The Golden Grizzlies just missed the NCAA Division I Tournament by one game, as only Green Bay represented the Horizon League in the NCAA tourney last season.
Still, Pogue abruptly left Oakland in early February of this year. That near-quarter century chapter had comes to a close.
NEW ADVENTURES
You can’t keep a good man completely down.
Eric Pogue is living proof to that.
A devout Christan man, so much has transpired in Pogue’s soccer coaching circle over the past seven months since he left his coveted NCAA Division I position. So much has happened during his coaching career overall and so much happened during his playing days as a youth player and adult standout that the stories can last a lifetime. The good far outweighs the bad.
Still, Pogue can again be found all over the soccer pyramid, lending his knowledge of the beautiful game and trying to teach life lessons from the sidelines. He quickly resurfaced this summer.
“I’m very proud of my time at Oakland,” said Pogue, who helped the Golden Grizzlies win 18 different regular season or conference tournaments during his time as a head or assistant coach. “I believe I left OU in a better position and carried on everything that Gary Parsons built over the years.
“Who knows. But everything that I’ve been through here, especially the last few years, really, might turn out to be a blessing. God has a plan for everything and even though I could not see it, I believe everything has its purpose,” offered Pogue.
Pogue has started the EPS Next Level Elite Goalkeeper Academy, an extension of Aaron Bird’s Next Level Training – Bird is a longtime friend of Pogue and another successful coach and trainer in the Detroit metropolitan area – and reopens the door for Eric Pogue to keep contributing to the Michigan soccer community. He is now giving back to current collegiate, high school and club soccer players in the state of Michigan – all of his knowledge of the keeper position, soccer in general and what it takes to succeed not only in soccer, but in life in general.
Pogue has also started some public speaking about mental health issues, depression and anxiety in males and male athletes – in particular young men trying to navigate themselves in school, soccer training, recruiting, work, relationships, excelling on the pitch or in life overall. All levels of the sports world can develop their fair share of stress, anxiety and various unknows on anyone growing up or working in today’s high-paced arena.
Pogue was also recently hired in June as an assistant coach/goalkeepers coach at nearby NAIA school Lawrence Tech down in Southfield, Mich., where he will help LTU keep building towards high levels of success. He is serving alongside LTU head coach Will Dyer and is enjoying being back on the sidelines of the college game.
Dyer, a longtime friend of Pogue, said in a press release in June that he welcomed him back to the college ranks without hesitation.
“Honored to have Coach Pogue join us this upcoming year as he has been a mentor to me since Day 1 here at LTU,” said Dyer in that release. “He’s a phenomenal coach who will help us tremendously on and off the field. Kyle and I are excited about what he brings to the table, and we can’t wait to work with him.”
In another turn of events, it was finally revealed recently on Aug. 17 that Eric Pogue will also be an assistant coach of Vardar SC U16 MLS Next Academy team along with longtime friend and colleague Demir Muftari, who served two different stints as an assistant coach at Oakland during Pogue’s career as a head coach (2009-2023). The duo once led the Vardar U19 US Soccer-Developmental Academy team to the national championship back in 2010 back when that level of high-level youth soccer circuit was still an eight-month program.
Lending a helping hand: Eric Pogue congratulates some players during a recent ESP Elite Goalkeeper Academy training session in July over at Rochester Adams High School. Courtesy Photo, Amanda Thick, Amanda Leigh Photography.
The US Soccer-DA became MLS Next Academy back in 2020 and is one of largest talent pools in the country of youth soccer talent and where Pogue spent plenty of time evaluating and recruiting players. Pogue did not want that position to be revealed until it became publicly official. He'll be on the sidelines with Demir Muftari this month on that circuit.
“I (didn’t) want to say anything about that until it was made official,” said Pogue. “I’ve known Demir a long time and we’ve been close friends for close to 30 years. I look forward to coaching with him again at the youth level.”
Again, you can’t keep a good man down. Eric Pogue is back in the soccer world in a multitude of ways.
As large as the soccer community is in Michigan and abroad, it’s also small as everyone that has been around for a while knows each other. He’s been around the block a time or two. He’s lived through the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, plus the emotional rollercoaster that not only sports can provide, but life overall.
“I think that is what led me to all of this (the new opportunities). If nothing would have changed, then who knows what might have happened,” added Pogue. “Who knows what God has in store for me. He’s opened up a lot of doors for me when a few months ago I didn’t know where I would wind up.”
That’s just it. Eric Pogue trusts in God. He trusts in the process of life, even when things don’t appear to be going right at all times. He trusts his friends, colleagues, and the thousands of other people he has touched over the years -- from fans, to athletes, parents, coaches, and others along the way.
From the times of racing up and down the flanks as a high-flying field player in youth soccer, or as a small or power forward on a basketball team as a youth; playing baseball or running track and field; stepping into the goalkeeper position at the beginning of his senior year of high school; to playing collegiate, amateur/pre-professional and professional soccer and being all over the soccer pyramid both as a successful player and coach in his home state and abroad … Eric Pogue has been through it all.
“I thank God for my blessings,” added Pogue. “It’s been a rough few years, especially since my mom passed away in 2021. But I’m working hard to get though it and I’m trying to help young players through the ups and downs of life.”
And about sudden turns in the road?
“I’m glad that I can still give back (to the soccer community),” noted Pogue. “It’s what I love to do.”
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(Have a story suggestion for the Premier Media Group and the Michigan Soccer Network regarding club soccer, high school varsity, amateur soccer, collegiate soccer or professional soccer involving teams, players or coaches with Michigan ties, contact Communications Specialist/Web and Content Editor/Director of News Dan Stickradt via email at stickradt@michigansoccernetwork.com or dstickradt@thepremiermediagrp.com, or call 248-884-1051 or 248-525-2349. Dan Stickradt is a 31-year veteran of the Michigan Media circles and recently joined the staff full time in March of 2024. Want to schedule a broadcast game or live show, contact PMG/MSN Director of Broadcasting Jonathan Turner for availability and pricing at jonathan@michigansoccernetwork.com and jonathan@thepremiermediagrp.com.)
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Michigan-based Premier Media Group is expanding ... don't miss out on coverage
SHELBY TWP., Mich. – The Premier Media Group is expanding its broadcast net.
And we want you.
The Michigan-based PMG, founded in 2022, its flagship production the Michigan Soccer Network and all other affiliates, is actively scheduling games in a wide variety of high school leagues and conferences, small colleges, amateur, pre-professional, youth club, and other avenues of the beautiful game in Michigan.
The schedule for the fall semester is starting to fill up across Michigan.
The daily connections are being made and the spreading of our brand has brought in great reviews.
Would the coaches, administration, student-athletes, players and fans like for us to broadcast a game near you?
Regardless of the now-popular remote broadcast games, on-location broadcast games, on-location shows or in-studio daily shows, there is a simple process. Visit the website www.michigansoccernetwork.com or click below for details.
PMG will also be holding various “Win A Free Broadcast” contest at various parts of the fall, winter (indoor) and spring seasons.
"(Michigan Soccer Network) has does a great job making these kids feel special,” offered Michal Hatfield, girls soccer coach at Trenton High School who also coaches in the Detroit City FC youth club system. “The broadcasts were professionally done and we were very pleased when they did our games. They did a great job with (play-by-play), graphics and postgame interviews with the kids. And a lot of people saw it. We had uncles and aunts that have never seen their nieces play get a chance to watch them on YouTube). And all of the kids were able to jump on there (the YouTube channel) afterwards and watch the game.”
The MSN staff had the pleasure of broadcasting multiple games the last two school years for schools in the Oakland Activities Association and have received its fair share of feedback. The goal is to conduct broadcasts of games throughout the state of Michigan, especially in the larger populated regions.
“MSN has done a great job with broadcasts in our league (Macomb Area Conference),” said Trevor Foster, current head coach of the Romeo girls soccer program, goalkeepers coach for Oakland University’s soccer programs, and director at the Michigan Goalkeepers Academy. “I know the girls love it. And I know some of the parents were putting their earphones on and listening to the game when they were (in the stands) and it gives relatives a chance to watch games that they normally wouldn’t be able to.
“It’s as close to professional (broadcast) as any broadcast of high school soccer that you will see out there,” added Foster. “Plus, they do all types of (amateur and pre-professional) leagues out there (in Michigan).”
“We were very pleased, especially with the knowledge of high school soccer in the state of Michigan from the play-by-play announcers and color commentators,” said Todd Heugh, the current director of athletics at Troy Athens High School and a former coach at the school. “They put together a valuable (product) and the games are live on YouTube for everyone to watch, even if you are (a relative or an alumni) not in the area. I know coaches go on there (YouTube), too, to watch games of an upcoming opponent.”
The PMG staff has a goal of 100-plus games this fall from mid-August through November. The Michigan Soccer Network conducted a record 50 remote or in-person broadcasts during the month of June.
PMG also has contacts within Michigan, the Midwest and even in different parts of the U.S. and have become broadcast partners for more than 15 different leagues or franchises within those leagues over the past three years. PMG has multiple broadcasting rights for within the USL-League Two, USL-W League, UPSL, MWPL, NISA, WSPL and more and constantly expanding its web of coverage both on various YouTube channels and on our website at www.michigansoccernetwork.com. It has broadcasted more high school boys soccer and high school girls soccer at more than 75 high schools in Michigan.
“MSN has been a great media partner for the Bucks and AFC,” said Costa Papista, President of the Flint City Bucks and Flint City AFC of the USL-League Two and USL-W League, respectively. “The production and overall quality of our live broadcasts are professional grade. Flint City fans, sponsors and supporters greatly appreciate the MSN quality. We are always receiving excellent feedback and comments from our fans and visiting fans as well.”
And now the busy season starts in earnest with high school, college and youth club team beginning the 2024-25 school year.
To schedule a game or to consult team members of our broadcast, reach out to the following persons in the PMG family of networks: Broadcast Director Jonathan Turner, 248-525-2083, jonathan@thepremeiermediagrp.com or new Director of Scheduling / Office Manager Alaina Gagnon, at agagnon@thepremiermediagrp.com and inquire about the broadcast options, packages, special packages and more.
For news on the soccer scene in Michigan, check out the MSN website at www.michigansoccernetwork.com for daily updates, game recaps, feature stories, previews and more for teams, players and coaches from a wide variety schools, amateur teams, colleges and youth club teams.
The PMG and MSN staff will continue to reach for its goal of providing quality broadcast on any network and in-depth coverage and content on it website.
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Interested in internships in broadcasting, communications, journalism, public relations or sales and marketing in the sports world? The Premier Media Group is seeking applications for current college students or students entering their senior or junior years of high school that have a career interest in working in different capacity of a constantly-evolving media world.
Contact both Broadcast Director Jonathan Turner at 248-525-2083 or jonathan@thepremeiermediagrp.com and Web and Content Editor / Director of News Dan Stickradt at (248) 525-2349 and dstickradt@thepremeiermediagrp.com.
(Have a story suggestion for the Premier Media Group and the Michigan Soccer Network regarding club soccer, high school varsity, amateur soccer, collegiate soccer or professional soccer involving teams, players or coaches with Michigan ties, contact Communications Specialist/Web and Content Editor/Director of News Dan Stickradt via email at stickradt@michigansoccernetwork.com or dstickradt@thepremiermediagrp.com, or call 248-884-1051 or 248-525-2349. Dan Stickradt is a 31-year veteran of the Michigan Media circles and recently joined the staff full time in March of 2024. Want to schedule a broadcast game or live show, contact PMG/MSN Director of Broadcasting Jonathan Turner for availability and pricing at jonathan@michigansoccernetwork.com and jonathan@thepremeiermediagrp.com.)
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