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DYK: Sosa is the 49ers All-Time Leading Goal Scorer

Fernando Sosa enjoyed a record setting career for the Charlotte 49ers in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Sosa (1978-81) was a three-time All-Sun Belt Conference selection who played an integral role as the 49ers men’s soccer program began their rise to national prominence.

Game
Goals: 6 vs. Newberry, October, 20, 1979
Points: 12 vs. Newberry, October 20, 1979

Season
Goals: 28 in 1979
Points: 60 in 1979

Career (1978-81)
Goals: 66
Points: 156
Hat Tricks: 6

Sosa joined the 49ers roster in the program’s third season in 1978 after a standout high school career at Charlotte’s Garinger High School.