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2023 Men's Soccer Roster
Roster
Buster Sjoberg
- Position:
- Defender
- Height:
- 6-4
- Weight:
- 190
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Uppsala, Sweden
- Prev School:
- Wofford
Graduate Year (2023): Team Captain … Appeared in 19 matches, making 14 starts … Had two goals and one assist … Scored his first Syracuse goal in the team's 1-0 win on Oct. 6 at No. 13 North Carolina ... Recorded an assist on Oct. 10 vs. Temple ... Scored his second goal of the season on Oct. 15 vs. No. 21 Clemson … Part of six of the team’s clean sheets … Played 1,414 total minutes and the full time in 10 matches ... Appeared in 60-or-more minutes in 15 matches ... Member of All-ACC Academic Team.
Senior Year (2022): Selected in the third round of the 2023 MLS SuperDraft by Vancouver Whitecaps FC ... Appeared in 19 matches, making 17 starts in Syracuse’s treble winning season … Played a full 90 minutes in the Orange’s 1-0 shutout of UNC in the ACC Championship Quarterfinal … Pushed Syracuse to a shutout of No. 4 Wake Forest in a definitive 2-0 win … Helped the Orange blank Virginia Tech in a 3-0 road victory … Played a full 90 minutes at No. 1 Clemson in a 2-1 road win … Started in a 1-0 victory against defending ACC Champion No. 22 Notre Dame … Missed significant time in the 2022 postseason due to a lower body injury.
Wofford College (2019 and 2020): Sjoberg attended Wofford College for two years where he started in 26 games and scored two goals … He was selected to the 2020-21 All-Southern Conference First Team and was a member of the 2019 Southern Conference All-Freshmen Team and All-Academic Team.
Personal: Buster Valdemar Sjoberg was born in April of 1999 … He is the son of Kjell and Katarina Sjoberg ... Sjoberg is majoring in finance at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management.
