UB senior forward Russell Cicerone is not only the best player on UB’s men’s soccer (8-2-1) team, he’s one of the best players in the entire country. In next January’s MLS Superdraft, he has a chance to be one of the first 10 players off the board and selected in the first round.
Often when a mid-level Division-I program like Buffalo ends up with a player of Cicerone’s caliber, they ride them for four years and then revert back to normalcy after said player graduates. However, for UB head men’s soccer coach Stu Riddle, Cicerone is just the biggest, most apparent piece in a puzzle that finally seems to be coming together as he once envisioned it.