Birmingham’s Goldfarb Gets The Gold (Again) Coaching The U.S. Team In Israel’s Maccabiah Games
By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
Preston Goldfarb had made his triumphant ride into the sunset. The man who built the Birmingham-Southern College men’s soccer program from scratch had retired from leading the Panthers program and had led his final BSC youth camp.
Goldfarb had no plans of making a monthlong trip to Israel in pursuit of a second straight gold medal in the 20th World Maccabiah Games.
“When you’re at the top of the mountain,” he said, “the only place you can go is down.”But Goldfarb and a virtually new team from the USA made a triumphant return to that mountaintop, adding a 2017 gold medal to the one the Americans won under the veteran coach in 2013. They became the first team to win back-to-back World Maccabiah Games men’s soccer championships in the 80-year history of the event.
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