RSL FW Dominik Marczuk Earns First-Ever Polish Senior National Team Selection; RSL FW Zavier Gozo & Academy Standouts Luca Moisa, Gio Villa and Will Mackay Each Called to Represent Claret-and-Cobalt at USA Youth National Team Camps;
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HERRIMAN, Utah (Monday, Nov. 11, 2024) – Dynamic Real Salt Lake attacker Dominik Marczuk (Poland) – being named for the first time in his young career to the full Polish senior national team – headlines a group of five Claret-and-Cobalt representatives selected for various national team groups during this upcoming FIFA international window. Joining the 20-year old Polish winger are FW Zavier Gozo (USA U-19) and RSL Academy / Real Monarchs standouts DF Juan Gio Villa, MF Luca Moisa and GK Will Mackay (each with the USA U-17s).
Marczuk – the 2023-24 Polish Ekstraklasa Young Player of the Season with Jagiellonia Bialystok, who transferred to RSL during the August MLS secondary window – scored two goals and added an assist in his October callup to the Poland U-21 side as part of its UEFA U-21 Euro Qualification competition, helping lead the youth national team to wins against Kosovo and Germany. Poland travels Friday, Nov. 15 to face Portugal in its UEFA Nations League Group A matchup, returning home to host Scotland next Monday, Nov. 18, the pair of games must-win to ensure advancement out of the group, which also includes Croatia.
Since his arrival in Utah, Marczuk has appeared in all 10 RSL/MLS games for which he has been eligible, starting eight, and providing one goal and one assist.
Dominik is the first-ever Polish player in RSL’s 20-year history, and the 21st from a UEFA country, joining Greek DF Alex Katranis and Portuguese MF Diogo Gonçalves as 2024 European additions. He is believed to be the 26th Polish player to sign with an MLS team in the North American league’s 29-year history, and the sixth active Polish player for MLS’ 2024 season, joining Mateusz Bogusz (LAFC), Mateusz Klich (DCU), Sebastian Kowalczyk (HOU), Bartosz Slisz (ATL) and Karol Swiderski (CLT).
Gozo has once again been called into the USA U-19 camp, repeating his recent inclusion in the team’s Valencia, Spain-based group, with the entirety of this team also eligible for next Fall’s 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Gozo – one of 13 players in the group on MLS Homegrown contracts – scored in three consecutive games down the MLS NEXT Pro stretch for Real Monarchs, which narrowly missed out on the eighth and final postseason berth with a 2-1 shootout win in early October.
Joining Gozo to represent the RSL ethos of “Winning Together Through Development,” is a trio of Homegrown RSL Academy products currently matriculating through the Herriman-based system, honing skills with the USL / MLS NEXT Pro pathways and earning MLS contracts, along with youth national team recognition and international competitions.
The trio of GK Will Mackay, DF Gio Villa and MF Luca Moisa now report to USA U17 Head Coach Gonzalo Segares, a familiar face for Moisa and Villa. Segares aged with the 2008 group, transitioning from the U16 to U17 squad earlier this year. Segares will gather his squad in Palm Beach, Florida for training camp now through November 16 to prepare for next February’s Concacaf U-17 Qualifiers, which will send eight teams to the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
Moisa recently concluded his longest professional season, appearing in 17 matches for Real Monarchs in MLS NEXT Pro play, starting eight. In 829 minutes played, the crafty midfielder completed 86.8% of his passes, slotting in one assist on the year. Villa debuted as a professional back on April 28, subbing on late to hold down a 1-0 Monarchs win over Vancouver 2. The American defender earned his only start of the year the following week in a 2-3 loss to LAFC2, while Mackay is also coming off of his longest professional season, appearing and starting in 14 matches, logging three clean sheets and 32 saves on a 64% save rate.
Real Salt Lake is tied for most players selected for the current camp, tying Philadelphia Union.
RSL men Justen Glad, Bode Hidalgo, Andrew Brody, Tommy Silva and Erik Holt are all HG players who have appeared in prominent MLS minutes in recent seasons, while Jaziel Orozco, Zack Farnsworth, Delentz Pierre, Axel Kei, Luca Moisa, Luis Rivera and Jude Wellings currently utilize the MLS NEXT Pro option with Real Monarchs.
During the 2024 season, Real Salt Lake (16-7-11, 59 pts., 3rd West) finished the campaign with an eight-game unbeaten run, dropping a pair of penalty-kick tiebreakers to Minnesota United in the best-of-three, first-round series of the 2024 Audi MLS Cup Playoffs.
RSL did establish a new all-time single-season record of 59 points, breaking the 57 earned in 2012, while also clinching a berth in the 2025 CONCACAF Champions Cup to be played next year, the Utah side’s first involvement in continental competition since the 2015/16 CCL, which saw RSL drop a Quarterfinal series to Tigres (LIGA MX).
This year’s RSL attack – led by Captain Chicho Arango and his 17-goal, 13-assist campaign – also marked the highest-scoring unit in the Club’s 20-year history, with 65 goals in the 34-game regular season, far exceeding the 2013 production of 57 goals.
Real Monarchs (9-12-7, 39pts, 9th West) completed its third MLS NEXT Pro last month. Finishing tied for eighth at the playoff line, a head-to-head 2-1 loss to Houston Dynamo 2 conceded the tiebreaker, eliminating the Monarchs from the recently-completed postseason. Real Monarchs finished the second half of 2024 by averaging 1.92 ppg (fifth-best in MLSNP during that time) under the guidance of Head Coach Mark Lowry in his first year with the Club.
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