Motorik FC Alexandria

MotoRetro.pngMotorikFCoval02.pngTHE HISTORY OF MOTORIK FC ALEXANDRIA
Motorik FC Alexandria was founded on April 1, 2017 by club owner Kenneth Tebo in order to provide adult elite amateur football to the player pool and community of Fairfax County in Northern Virginia. The name "Motorik" is a reference to the propulsive, repetitive 4/4 beat that was pioneered by such Krautrock bands as Neu!, Can, and Kraftwerk.

Motorik FC Alexandria assembled the original manifestation of its roster in the Winter of 2017/2018. The club's first-ever player signing was Fredy Rodriguez Jr., a Honduran winger from Woodbridge, Virginia. In January of 2018, Motorik FC Alexandria hired its first-ever head coach, Anthony Howard, an ex-professional goalkeeper with extensive coaching experience in the D.C. Metropolitan Area.

Throughout the Winter, Spring, and Summer of 2018, Motorik FC Alexandria played a series of competitive friendlies in order to continue to build and refine its roster. The club played its first-ever friendly on March 4, 2018 at Walker Mill Regional Park in District Heights, Maryland - a 4-0 defeat away to local side Moncagua FC. Motorik FC Alexandria followed up this defeat with another defeat, 3-0, against new club, Columbia FC Maryland on March 17, 2018 at Howard High School in Ellicott City, Maryland, On March 31, 2018, at the Evergreen SportsPlex in Leesburg, Virginia, Motorik FC Alexandria played the Virginia Hammers FC of the Premier Development League and secured its first-ever draw with a 2-2 result. The match also saw Fredy Rodriguez Jr. score the club's historic first-ever goal in competitive play.

After a 3-3 draw against Northern Neck FC on April 22, 2018 at Lake Fairfax Park in Reston, Virginia, Head Coach Anthony Howard was fired and replaced with player/coach Omar Ismail. Following the hiring of Coach Ismail, Motorik FC Alexandria played its first friendly against National Premier Soccer League competition, facing the Charlottesville Alliance on May 5, 2018 at Charlottesville High School. The match ended with a 1-0 defeat. (To be continued)