ANDREW HENSLEY

#5 DEFENDER

Sr. Thermal Engineer, SpaceX
B.S Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University

• Place of Birth: Illinois

• Soccer Career: Playing in clubs since age 5

• Favorite Team: Space United

• Best of Space United: Getting to play full-field soccer at a competitive level and fitting it in on the weekends

• Best of Space Exploration: Making humanity multi-planetary

ALEX TEUFFER

#6 DEFENDER

Lead Hardware Design Engineer, SpaceX
B.S Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

• Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico

• Soccer Career: Club Soccer

• Favorite Team: Pumas UNAM

• Best of Space United: No drama, just good soccer!

• Best of Space Exploration: Achieving what seems impossible.

RONNIE TALLEDO

#7 MIDFIELDER

Lead Propulsion Technician, SpaceX
Engineering Technology

• Place of Birth: Lima, Perú

• Soccer Career: Universitario de Deportes, Peru

• Favorite Team: FC Barcelona

• Best of Space United: Team work & spirit

• Best of Space Exploration: Occupying Mars!

STEPHEN TALIADOROS

#8 MIDFIELDER

Software Operations Engineer, SpaceX
B.A Economics, Elon University

• Place of Birth: Nicosia, Cyprus

• Soccer Career: Varsity at Wilton Lyndeborough Coop High school, Amherst Soccer Club, Weenie Hut Jr, intramural champions

• Favorite Team: Liverpool FC

• Best of Space United: Camaraderie across departments

• Best of Space Exploration: Commercial Crew and seeing Bob and Doug head to the ISS soon!

HAYLEY GONZALES

#9 FORWARD

Model/Talent, Sports+Lifestyle Unlimited
BA Public Relations, Vanguard University

• Place of Birth: Long Beach, CA

• Soccer Career: SC Blue Heat, LAGOC Women’s

• Favorite Team: Real Madrid

• Best of Space United: The openness to learn and grow. I love how we are able to talk about where we need to improve and finding solutions to win together!

• Best of Space Exploration: Seeing how God is by discovering more of his creation.

SEBASTIAN TOBACIA

#10 MIDFIELDER

Manufacturing Engineer II, Northrop Grumman
B.S Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University

• Place of Birth: Bogotá, Colombia

• Soccer Career: Millonarios FC U8, Alaska State Champion

• Favorite Team: FC Barcelona

• Best of Space United: Continuous Improvement to our game led us to the Championship in 2019

• Best of Space Exploration: The challenge, the discovery, and the future of a multi-planetary society.

JAMES PFLUGHAUPT

#11 MIDFIELDER

Mechanical Engineer, Northrop Grumman
B.S Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University

• Place of Birth: Newport Beach, CA

• Soccer Career: Slammers FC, Newport Mesa SC, Indian Hill HS Varsity

• Favorite Team: Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

• Best of Space United: Great people with a passion for the game

• Best of Space Exploration: New engineering solutions that spawn downstream to commercial products. Also seeing the scale of where we live and where we are in the universe.

DREW HESS

#13 MIDFIELDER/FORWARD

Head of Mission Management, Relativity Space
BS Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Place of Birth: Augusta, GA

• Soccer Career: Club ball for Augusta Arsenal 1997-2004, Georgia Tech intramural champion (indoor and outdoor) 2007, 2008

• Favorite Team: Seattle Sounders

• Best of Space United: The team always puts up a hard fight, and we are hard to beat when we have our best squad on the field.

• Best of Space Exploration: Enabling all nations of the world to benefit from an orbital perspective of our incredible planet.

FERNANDO VARELA

#14 MIDFIELDER/FORWARD

Sales Rep, Adidas & LAFC Expo Originals
Marketing Student, Del Rey City & West LA College

• Place of Birth: Los Angeles, CA

• Soccer Career: College Club Soccer

• Favorite Team: LAFC & Boca Jrs.

• Best of Space United: The team has a great story

• Best of Space Exploration: Exploring the unknown

MATTHIEU LABAUDINIERE

#15 MIDFIELDER

Dragon Development Engineer II, SpaceX
B.S Mechanical Engineering, McGill University
M.S Advanced Motorsport Engineering, Cranfield University

• Place of Birth: Vitry-sur-Seine, France

• Soccer Career: Varsity High School, First Team Grad.

• Favorite Team: Chelsea FC

• Best of Space United: Building camaraderie with talented individuals, both as soccer players and as aerospace employees, it is a real pleasure to come back week after week

• Best of Space Exploration: Pushing the bounds of science and technology in a way that inspires the next generation.

HANS UY

#17 DEFENDER

Financial Analyst, SpaceX
BBA Finance, UT Austin

• Place of Birth: San Antonio, TX

• Soccer Career: High school JV/Varsity team – Saint Mary’s Hall (San Antonio, TX). Intramural league at UT Austin

• Favorite Team: US Men’s National Team

• Best of Space United:

  It’s a great opportunity for me to get to know other people at SpaceX, especially since I’m new here!

• Best of Space Exploration: Quantifying the enormous economic benefit space exploration has on society. Few people realize the massive return on investment humanity attains when we invest in space technology and how it impacts fields like medicine, telecommunication, and materials science

DAVID HAHN

#18 MIDFIELDER

Dynamics Software Engineer, SpaceX
BS Aerospace Engineering, University of California Irvine

• Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany

• Soccer Career: HS Varsity, UCI Club Team

• Favorite Team: Borussia Dortmund

• Best of Space United: Playing soccer with my friends and coworkers

• Best of Space Exploration: Forefront of technology and space exploration

SJOERD VAN ROOSMALEN

#19 MIDFIELDER/FORWARD

Director of Engineering, Peakers
BS Computer Science, The University of Edinburgh
MS Information Security, University College London

• Place of Birth: New Haven, CT

• Soccer Career: RPC Eindhoven, 5v5 Cambridge

• Favorite Team: PSV Eindhoven

• Best of Space United: Having fun during games and getting a good work out!

• Best of Space Exploration: To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

TWAIN GLASER

#20 MIDFIELDER/FORWARD

Automation Engineer, Relativity Space
BS Electrical Engineering, University of San Diego
MS Signal & Image Processing, University of California San Diego

• Place of Birth: Tampa, FL

• Soccer Career: 3 in the USDA, 5 years with Sod Celtic FC in San Diego

• Favorite Team: Manchester United

• Best of Space United: Positive attitude and good footy

• Best of Space Exploration: The pursuit of space exploration drives an incredible amount of innovation. From the tech in our cell phones to metal 3D printers the size of school buses, cool things happen in the name of space exploration!

BRIAN PARRIS

#21 DEFENDER

Sr. Opto-Mechanical engineer, SpaceX
BS Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware

• Place of Birth: Houston, TX

• Soccer Career: University of DE men's club soccer, HS Varsity, travel/club teams

• Favorite Team: Space United FC

• Best of Space United: Teammates and camaraderie

• Best of Space Exploration: Interesting technical challenges

CESAR CABRERA

#22 MIDFIELDER/FORWARD

Production Manager, On Board Experimental
Marketing

• Place of Birth: Lima, Peru

• Soccer Career: Playing clubs and high level for 25 years

• Favorite Team: Alianza Lima Peru, FC Barcelona

• Best of Space United: Our Commitment

• Best of Space Exploration: Infinite Destinatio

SEBASTIAN TORRES

#23 MIDFIELDER

Technical Project Lead for Raptor, SpaceX
BS Industrial Engineering, CalPoly Pomona

• Place of Birth: Cali, Colombia

• Soccer Career: Calpoly Pomona Club Team, OC Strikers

• Favorite Team: Colombia National Team

• Best of Space United: Diversity, comradery and that everyone gives their best.

• Best of Space Exploration: Colonizing Mars!

EDGAR BARRON

#1 GOALKEEPER

Lead Supervisor, Southland Transit Div 95
Undergraduate, LACC

• Place of Birth: Zacatecas, Mexico

• Soccer Career: At the age of 15, Edgar joined Real Sociedad de Zacatecas Reserves/Academy. He reached the Semi Pro League.

• Favorite Team: LAFC , Club América & FC Barcelona

• Best of Space United: The diversity and how everyone is down to earth, Everyone makes you feel welcome!

• Best of Space Exploration: The robotics involved is amazing to me!

ANTHONY PAPP

#12 GOALKEEPER

Business Development Rep, Oracle NetSuite
B.S Management, Tulane University

• Place of Birth: Los Angeles, CA

• Soccer Career: Real So Cal & Sierra Canyon High School

• Favorite Team: Liverpool (or wherever Cristiano Ronaldo plays)

• Best of Space United: x

• Best of Space Exploration: It is vital to the development of science and technology -- It will be key in our push for an understanding of life itself.

CAMILO TOBACIA

#10 FORWARD (RESERVES)

Lead Manufacturing Engineer, Blue Origin
BS Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University

• Place of Birth: Bogotá, Colombia

• Soccer Career: Ajax Colombia, Millonarios FC U17, Colombian National Team U17, Selección Bogota U17 Dallas Texas, Valencia TX, Club Soccer, College Soccer, Space United FC

• Favorite Team: América de Cali, FC Barcelona, Liverpool FC

• Best of Space United: We are a team that likes competition and we push ourselves to be better every season

• Best of Space Exploration: Pushing the boundaries of technology and doing what seems to be impossible.

ARIEL GELSUMINO

#12 DEFENDER (RESERVES)

BASKETBALL/SOCCER COACH, RSD
SPORTS MANAGEMENT

• Place of Birth: Córdoba, Argentina

• Soccer Career: Club Soccer in Argentina, Costa Rica and USA

• Favorite Team: Boca Jrs.

• Best of Space United: Our Championship in 2019

• Best of Space Exploration: The rocket launches!