FORT LEE, NJ - For the first time in the Fort Lee High School's history, senior and soccer player Sohrab Moussavian, a center midfielder with the Bridgemen, has been voted Player of the Year in the Bergen County Scholastic League's American Division on Nov. 20.

Moussavian helped lead the Bridgemen to two league championships in the past three seasons.

Moussavian was a prolific scorer for the Bridge team, registering 20 goals and 17 assists during the 2000 season. Those numbers leave him atop the single-season points list with 37, one ahead of teammate Nick Levinson, a senior striker who had 29 scores and seven helps this year.

In his career at Fort Lee, Moussavian, a four-year starter, accumulated 27 goals and a team record 38 assists, for a sum of 65 career points, third on the all-time list, behind only Levinson and Kodai Kobuta, a member of the Class of 1999.

"Sohrab will be next to impossible to replace," said FLHS coach Bob Ciccone of Moussavian, adding, "He raised the level of play in the entire program.

"In the eight years before Sohrab played at Fort Lee, the program had a total of 55 wins (under seven a year) and is his four years here, we had 61 (over 15 per year). In fact, we went 61-19-5 with Sohrab playing midfield for us."

Moussavian is being recruited by several colleges, including St. John's, whose program interests him the most.

The Bergen News
December 6, 2000



Sohrab Moussavian is Armenian on his father's side and Persian on his mother's side. She was raised in Turkey, married Sohrab's father and came to the United States when Sohrab was just one year old.