Rich Totten - Right Midfield
Rick Totten joined the team's feeder club, Trinity College, late 2009 and has played every game for them so far this season, even picking up the prestigious "Player of the first few months" award in Varsity newspaper. This raised the possibility of training with the Falcon's team and this has now been extended to a full blown trial period. Although this season he has spent most of his time in central midfield his natural position is right wing. His ambition for this season is to play for the Falcons, a team he has supported since he was a boy.
George Hill - Midfield
London based Manchester United fan George, joined the Falcons in 2009. In his first year at Cambridge, George is experiencing two very different sides to football- chasing promotion with the Falcons while fighting to avoid league relegation with his college side Catz, who (at time of writing) have not yet registered a league victory all season. He is hoping the Falcons can finish the season strongly and secure promotion and beat the Oxford Centaurs in the Varsity match
Matt Gerrett - Full Back
Gerrett is playing in his first season for the Falcons having managed to establish himself as a regular team member in the unfamiliar position of full back. He is equally comfortable on either flank and has produced consistent preformances, but makes up for this with a distinct lack of height or pace. Currently in his third year at Jesus, Gerrett is a passionate Newcastle United supporter and hopes to see both the Toon and the Falcons achieve promotion at the end of the season.
Kalil Rouse - Full Back
Kalil joined the University in 2009 and made his Falcons debut in early 2010. He played for the same Sunday league team from under-10s up to under-18s, eventually captaining the side for the last 3 seasons. In Sunday league, he started out as a centre-back, moved to left wing, occasionally played as a striker, returned to centre-back and then ended up in centre midfield. But in University, he self-converted to an adventurous full-back. As a lifelong Arsenal fan, he WOULD have compared his style of play to that of Ashley Cole, but things change...
Tomas Murphy - Right Midfield
Tom Clare - Midfield
Known for his boyish features and his preference for munching blocks of jelly at half time, 'TC' is a versatile footballer normally employed at left back for the Falcons. Tom previously studied in Oxford, and captained their 2nd team to Varsity victory over the Falcons in 2007, scoring the 6th penalty in a dramatic 8-7 victory at Grange Road. This year on his return to Grange Road, he hopes to be involved in reversing that outcome and play his part in securing league and Varsity victory for a strong Falcons squad.
Tom Balling - Midfield
Tom's Cambridge football career began in autumn 2006 with playing for a struggling Queens' side in the dizzying heights of Division 4. However, together with a new generation of Queens' players, Tom helped resurrect his colleges fortunes and earned a call-up to the University squad in the New year of 2006. Having moved to Austria when he was just 4 years old, Cambridge was Tom's first taste of English football, but he can claim to arguable have the most "international experience" in the side having already played for teams as far a field as Austria, Japan and Costa Rica. Tom is now in his fourth year of juggling a degree in Japanese and Chinese with his footballing commitments, where he's hoping to kick on from his second-team colours last year and play more regularly.
Chris Peacock - Midfield
Chris Peacock having made the long journey down from Sunderland to join Trinity College enjoyed a turbulent first term at Cambridge and played at both full back and centre half for the Falcons. He has made a few appearances for the Blues and enjoyed the tour to La Manga. Unfortunately he suffered a broken nose half way through Easter term in a college game but hopes to recover in time to play some part in the rest of the 2009-2010 campaign.
Aki Laakso - Centre Forward
Leaving his native Finland at the age of 13, it took Aki a few years to make the transition from ice hockey to football. Having switched his skates for boots, he was discovered at the age of 16 by a scout from the Dutch team Blauw-Zwarte who decided that the pacey Finn was just what their youth team needed for a fullback. In the 2008 try-outs, former blues captain Alex Coleman realized CUAFC hadn't recruited any new strikers. Coley thought quick and hard and decided to try Aki up-front. A right back turned centre-forward, Aki has now been scoring goals for the Falcons for two seasons, earning a place in the starting line-up in the 2009 2nds Varsity match. During the summers, Aki plays for his local team in Helsinki, HPS, and helped them get promoted to the 3rd division of the Finnish National Football League for the 09-10 season. In his ample free time, Aki enjoys acoustic music, chicken and American girls.
Pete Stovall - Centre-Back
Peter ‘Viking’ Stovall, as he is known in the ring, likes to keep continuity between his two Uni sports; football and kickboxing. Pete played football for St Paul’s School in London where he won fame for winning player of the year and, unfortunately for someone else, an Achilles-snapping challenge. A fresh face in the squad having focused more on rugby and athletics before coming to Cambridge, he is working hard to give the beautiful game the dedication it deserves. Pete came along just in time to help the Kestrels beat Oxford in the 2009 Varsity match. While he is working on developing that silky touch every centre back dreams of, Pete will readily admit that he prefers heading the ball to kicking it. Relentless off the ball and tidy on it, this young man will make it a tough day for any striker and an easier one for his fellow defenders.
Max Wolke - Midfield/Right Wing
Max Wolke didn’t start playing football until he moved to England, aged 7. A notable early experience of the game was being sent to football camp in a Germany Euro 96 strip, the day after England’s penalty shootout defeat. Max’s dad, a proud German, still thinks that this story proves the Germans have a sense of humour....somewhere. It took Max a few years to recover from the chants of ‘kraut’ and ‘is your favourite player Micheal Kuntz’, but, and unlike a German, he saw the funny side and joined St. Albans City youth. Here, he originally played as a striker scoring 46 goals in 84 appearances. Max later moved to another cathedral city club and into centre midfield at St. Albans Rangers. In his second season with the club he tasted league glory. In the same season he also played in the District Cup final for Verulam school. Max is now a second year English student at Fitzwilliam College and a proud member of CUAFC.
Lars Boyde - Goalkeeper
After prolonged abstinence from football due to an alternative career as a semi-professional badminton player, Lars rediscovered his love to the patchy leather sphere in 2006, when he first joined the Trinity College Football Club. Having returned refreshed from his season-long loan at MIT in the subsequent year, he jump-started his campaign with the Falcons squad in 2008. Equipped with the distinctive hallmarks of a "Deutscher Stopper" (swift, tough, and hard as Krupp steel), Lars makes almost every striker’s life a misery (apart from Amos’ – who is doing it himself). According to ex-captain Jamie Rutt, however, his "parabolic" kicking style has hampered his steep goalkeeping career with the CUAFC. Rumour has it though, that this obscure technique merely serves as an outlet of his every-day frustration as a perennial Physics PhD student.
Chris Ellis - Goalkeeper
The hero of the penalty shoot out in last season's Falcons Varsity match, goalkeeper Chris Ellis is the current 2nd XI captain and designated match day driver. 'Ellis', as he is affectionately known, divides his time between his mathematics degree, doing all he can to ensure that Jesus finally win Cuppers and wishing that Stu Ferguson studied something other than medicine. The former Chester City and Wrexham youth starlet (both clubs now in administration) has a quiet yet determined style of captaincy that has resulted in one of the best seasons for the Falcons in recent years, one which would be completed with BUCS promotion and another Varsity victory or, failing both of those, a timely injury to Ferguson...
Kieran Anderson - Centre Forward
Sunderland fan Kieran, joined the team in 2009 as a fresh faced attacker trying to establish himself in the existing squad. Having played in countries such as Argentina, France and Greece, Kieran has a wealth of footballing knowledge which serves him no purpose when all he really wants to do is put the ball in the back of the opposition net. Modelling himself rather facetiously on Zinedine Zidane, his favourite player, Kieran hopes to have a long and bright future in the team.