UNC men’s soccer captain Mauricio Pineda leads the team with ‘quiet confidence’

Posted Sep 6, 2019
North Carolina senior midfielder Mauricio Pineda is on the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List, the most prestigious individual award in college soccer. But you wouldn’t know it. “There's a quiet confidence about him when he plays,” former teammate Cameron Lindley said. “He never will speak about it. He'll never talk about himself. “It's always team first.” (Daily Tar Heel)

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