{"id":527662,"date":"2026-03-10T21:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/527662\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:37:10","slug":"mens-soccer-adds-six-transfers-ahead-of-2026-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/527662\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Soccer Adds Six Transfers ahead of 2026 Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA BARBARA, Calif. \u2013\u00a0 The UC Santa Barbara Men\u2019s Soccer team and Coach Tim Vom Steeg are excited to announce the signing of six new transfers. This new class of transfers brings NCAA Tournament experience, All-Big West performers, and seasoned talent from across the globe.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Four of the six newcomers hail from Europe \u2013\u00a0 Kalle Rahbek, Simone Ferrieri, Tobias Gerber, and Viggo Gustavsson \u2013\u00a0 Joined by California natives David Ruy and Donovan Sessoms. Four of the six played for Division one schools, with Gustavsson coming off a sweet sixteen run in the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Viggo Gustavsson | Defender | 6\u20193\u201d | Grand Canyon<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>A standout defender from Grand Canyon, Gustavsson will begin his junior season with the Gauchos. Born in Stockholm, Sweden, he\u00a0spent\u00a0his youth years with AIK U-19 and AIK U17 and the U-17 Swedish national team. Gustavsson led the back line for Grand Canyon and finished with the fifth most minutes played on the team his freshman year, receiving All-WAC Freshman team honors. In his sophomore season, Gustavsson received All-WAC Tournament Team honors and helped lead the Antelopes to a Sweet 16 NCAA Tournament run. Gustavsson will be reunited with his former teammate and current Gaucho Calle Mollerberg in Santa Barbara, strengthening an already formidable Gaucho back line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA BARBARA, Calif. \u2013\u00a0 The UC Santa Barbara Men\u2019s Soccer team and Coach Tim Vom Steeg are excited&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-527662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}