After a career spanning two continents, what’s a better way to start a new chapter than launching an amateur soccer team in the United States? Enter Morris Elite SC, one of the plethora of new teams to join USL League Two ahead of its 2021 season that started this past weekend. Following a cancelled 2021 campaign, the league’s 26th season includes seven new tri-state teams including MESC.
Based in Livingston and Morristown, New Jersey, Morris Elite was founded by former professional forward and New Jersey native Vincenzo Bernardo in 2016. The former US youth international has loudly built the program from an idea into one of few youth programs in the state to have been recognized by US Club Soccer as a “Player First Club.