Goal getter

Amiri scores two goals in Royal Palms Soccer Club’s playoff win.

Ramtin Amiri expects this to be his final season playing for the Royal Palms Soccer Club of the United Premier Soccer League. The Flagler Palm Coast

High School boys soccer coach will undergo shoulder surgery at the end of July.

Amiri scored two goals on Sunday, June 25, in a 5-0 victory over High Soccer Prospects of Orlando in the first round of the UPSL Division 1 Florida Central Conference playoffs.

Royal Palms SC, based in Palm Coast, will play in the conference semifinals on July 2 in Tampa. Royal Palms finished the spring season with a 7-3-1 record for fourth place in the 12-team conference. The team is riding an eightgame unbeaten streak.

Amiri has scored nine goals in nine games this season. He has been playing for Royal Palms SC since its first season, in 2020. The playoff win was his 40th career game, and he now has 35 career goals. Both are all-time highs for the club.

He scheduled the surgery one week after Royal Palms SC’s final possible playoff game.

“It’s been damaged for a while,” Amiri said of his shoulder. “It will be a while before I can play again.”

Other local players on Royal Palms SC’s roster include Nate Monsanto, an FPC grad and former Stetson University soccer player, and goalie