Baltimore Blast

Full name	Baltimore Blast
Nickname(s)	Blast
Founded	1992 (as Baltimore Spirit)
Stadium	1st Mariner Arena Baltimore, Maryland (Capacity: 11,286)
Chairman	Edwin F. Hale, Sr.
Coach	Danny Kelly
League	Major Indoor Soccer League
2008-09	Regular Season: 1st Playoffs: Champions
Home colors

1995 Baltimore Spirit logo.

Baltimore Blast is an American professional indoor soccer team based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1992, the team plays in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

The team plays its home games at 1st Mariner Arena and train at the Du Burns Arena. The team's colors are red and gold. Their current head coach is Danny Kelly.

[edit] History

The Baltimore Blast were founded by software designer Roger Federer as the Baltimore Spirit at the end of July 1992 and joined the National Professional Soccer League. The team replaced the earlier Baltimore Blast, who folded along with the original MISL. When the team was purchased by Ed Hale, a former owner of the original team, the Spirit were renamed the Blast in 1998 (Hale had the rights to the Blast name, hence the reason why the team decided to change its name) and joined the new Major Indoor Soccer League in 2001. After the MISL folded in 2008, the team announced it would be joining the new Major Indoor Soccer League.

[edit] Players

[edit] Current roster

As of November 16, 2009^[1]

No. Position Player 0 GK Dave Kern 1 GK Sagu 2 DF Billy Nelson 4 FW Giuliano Celenza 5 MF Denison Cabral 6 DF Ryan Pierce 7 FW Adrian Bumbut 9 MF Pat Healey 11 FW Rod Dyachenko 12 DF Logan Alexander

No. Position Player 13 MF Lucio Gonzaga 14 FW Adriano Dos Santos 16 FW Max Ferdinand 19 MF Carlos Garcia 20 MF Robbie Aristodemo 21 DF Michael Dello-Russo 22 MF Scott Buete 23 FW Machel Millwood 24 DF Mike Lookingland 28 DF Jonathan Greenfield

[edit] Notable former players

[edit] Retired numbers

[edit] Hall of Fame

Position	Person	Inducted
Coach	Kenny Cooper	2004
FW	Stan Stamenkovic	2004
DF	Mike Stankovic	2004
DF	Bruce Savage	2005
N/A	Earl Foreman	2005
FW	Tim Whittman	2005
FW	Joey Fink	2006
FW	Dave MacWilliams	2006
FW	Heinz Wirtz	2007
FW	Domenic Mobilio	2008
GK	Keith Van Eron	2008
FW	Billy Ronson	2009
DF	Richard Chinapoo	2009

[edit] Other former players

• Rich Daughtridge
• Jason Dieter
• Jason Maricle
• Tony McPeak

[edit] Year-by-year

Year	League	Logo	Reg. Season	Playoffs	Avg. attendance [2]
1992-93	NPSL II		1st American, 27-13	Lost Quarterfinal	5,444
1993-94	NPSL II		1st American, 26-14	Lost First Round	6,471
1994-95	NPSL II		3rd American, 23-17	Lost First Round	5,733
1995-96	NPSL II		2nd American, 25-15	Lost Division Semifinal	5,037
1996-97	NPSL II		2nd East, 20-20	Lost Conference Semifinal	4,760
1997-98	NPSL II		3rd East, 12-28	Failed to qualify	5,001
1998-99	NPSL II		3rd East, 19-21	Failed to qualify	4,795
1999-00	NPSL II		1st East, 26-18	Lost Conference Final	5,445
2000-01	NPSL II		3rd American, 22-18	Lost Conference Final	5,376
2001-02	MISL II		4th MISL, 18-26	Lost Semifinal	4,998
2002-03	MISL II		3rd Eastern,18-18	Won Championship	5,559
2003-04	MISL II		1st Eastern, 25-11	Won Championship	6,330
2004-05	MISL II		7th MISL, 15-24	Failed to qualify	5,752
2005-06	MISL II		2nd MISL, 17-13	Won Championship	7,005
2006-07	MISL II		5th MISL, 15-15	Failed to qualify	7,449
2007-08	MISL II		3rd MISL, 19-11	Won Championship	7,230
2008-09	NISL		1st NISL, 14-4	Won Championship	7,534
2009-10	MISL III		TBD	TBD	TBD

[edit] Head Coaches

• Kenny Cooper (1992-1994)
• Dave MacWilliams (1994-1996)
• Mike Stankovic (1996-1998)
• Kevin Healey (1998-2002)
• Sean Bowers (2002)
• Bobby McAvan (2002-2003)
• Tim Wittman (2003-2006)
• Danny Kelly (2006-present)

[edit] Arenas

• 1st Mariner Arena; Baltimore, Maryland (1992-present) (previously Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore Arena)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site

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