John Harkes

  • Greenville

    Greenville Triumph announce 1st-ever academy signings

    Greenville Triumph SC has been full of smiles in its inaugural USL League One campaign. The expansion side currently sits in third place in the table — above the playoff line — and has a game in hand on the three teams immediately beneath it in the standings. And...
  • Michigan State

    Soc Takes Pod Ep. 61: John Harkes

    Greenville Triumph SC manager and sporting director John Harkes joins co-hosts Kevin Johnston and John Lenard ahead of his expansion side’s inaugural USL League One match at South Georgia Tormenta FC. The former U.S. men’s national team captain touches on the current state of the USMNT, FC Cincinnati’s hot...
  • Greenville Triumph SC

    Greenville Triumph SC reveals inaugural kits, sponsor

    Greenville Triumph SC has revealed the kits it’ll don in its inaugural season — and also announced a partnership with ScanSource as a primary shirt sponsor — as the team prepares to take the pitch in USL League One. The club held a press conference Wednesday afternoon at ScanSource,...
  • Jake Keegan

    Greenville Triumph SC inks 2nd-ever player, striker Jake Keegan

    Set to debut this year in USL League One, Greenville Triumph SC’s roster-building phase has commenced. After recently signing its first-ever player in defender Tyler Polak, the expansion club announced its second signing — and first attacking player — on Thursday in veteran striker Jake Keegan. Keegan joins the...
  • Harkes

    John Harkes expected to be Greenville Triumph SC’s first head coach

    Soc Takes understands that ex-USMNT international John Harkes is the current front-runner to be Greenville Triumph Soccer Club’s first head coach. Harkes has previously coached in the United Soccer League (USL) at FC Cincinnati — currently a D2 franchise — from 2016 to 2017. If confirmed, this would be Harkes’...
  • John Harkes

    FC Cincinnati GM Jeff Berding wins his battle against John Harkes

    In 1996, John Harkes was named “captain for life” by then-U.S. national team coach Steve Sampson. In 1998, he was dropped from the team under mysterious circumstances. Over the next decade, via published books, rumors and mutual slandering, salacious reasons appeared to underlie the separation between Sampson and his once-beloved pupil....