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Refugees from Liberia and Russia at CU MSC Players of the Week Sharing the honor this week is extra special to the duo, Max Malachiyev and Eurodger Bargblor, Jr. Not only because they are current and former teammates, but because they both moved to Bowling Green, KY, as young immigrants through the International Refugee Center around the same time. - Chris Megginson Click on headline for complete story, photo(s) By Chris Megginson / CU Sports Information CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. - Campbellsville University men's soccer swept Mid-South Conference Player of the Week honors Oct. 7 for the second time this season, but this time has a lot more meaning behind it. "I've been waiting for it," said sophomore goalkeeper Max Malachiyev, who was named the MSC Defensive Player of the Week for the third time in five weeks. Malachiyev said he'd been waiting all season to share the MSC headlines with his former Warren Central High School teammate Eurodger Bargblor, Jr., who is in his first season on the field for CU. Bargblor scored the game-tying goal in the 57th minute Saturday to lead Campbellsville to a 1-1 draw against No. 2 Rio Grande. Earlier in the week, he scored his first hat trick as a Tiger, netting three goals in the first 24 minutes of an 11-0 win over Ohio Christian University to solidify his first MSC Offensive Player of the Week honor. "It feels good to get it for the first time at Campbellsville University. I'm just glad I have a good team around me to help me achieve my goal," said Bargblor. Malachiyev receives the defensive award for the third time this season and fourth time in his young career. He posted 45 minutes of shutout action without facing a shot in one half of play Oct. 1 in the 11-0 win over OCU. On Oct. 5, after giving up an initial goal, Malachiyev posted eight saves in the double-overtime tie with Rio Grande. "I don't take full credit," Malachiyev said. "Defensive players don't always get it unless they score a PK or score a goal. It's always the goalkeeper that gets it, so I believe this is an award for the whole defense together." For Campbellsville, it's the fourth time this season a player has been named Offensive Player of the Week, with Roraigh Yearwood receiving the honor three times. "It's great to see these guys recognized. They're humble guys. We've had a lot of fun with the guys winning the awards. They all play well together, and that makes a difference," said Adam Preston, CU men's soccer head coach. Sharing the honor this week is extra special to the duo. Not only because they are current and former teammates, but because they both moved to Bowling Green, KY, as young immigrants through the International Refugee Center around the same time. Their journeys date back to the late 1990s on two different continents. After the death of his father and brother, Malachiyev and his mother moved from apartment to apartment around Moscow, Russia struggling to survive. After a year and a half, his mother began the process of moving to the U.S. It took another year and a half before Malachiyev arrived in the U.S. at age 10 in 2003. Nearly 4,000 miles away on the coast of Africa, war was all around the Bargblor family. Born during the First Liberian Civil War, Bargblor was 6 when his family decided to uproot at the start of the country's second civil war. After losing his grandparents and a brother in the war, his mother went into labor while on their flight to freedom. She forced her husband, daughter and Eurodger, Jr. to continue on without her. Two weeks later, after Eurodger and family assumed the two were dead, he was reunited with his mother and new baby brother, Exodus. The family continued their trek into neighboring Ivory Coast - reaching their journey at a refugee camp after a nine-day walk. Though the family was settled in a refugee camp and managed to get by, despite sometimes going a week without food, they were uprooted again when civil war erupted in their new country. Lines of refugees signed up to interview for a chance to move to the U.S. Bargblor and his family were one of the few that were accepted and he relocated at age 14 in 2004. Bargblor and Malachiyev's teammates have learned more about their stories in the last few weeks as they have opened up and talked about them on team bus rides to games. "Some of their stories - some of the easy ones and the tough ones - are all phenomenal to know where they've come from to wind up in little Campbellsville, Ky," said Preston. After moving to Bowling Green, Bargblor and Malachiyev met at Warren Central High School and connected instantly because of their background. While Malachiyev was a freshman and Bargblor was a senior, the forward remembers watching the young goalkeeper play. Bargblor graduated and moved on to become the leading goal scorer at Brescia University in 2010, while Malachiyev was just getting started as the WCHS keeper and training with SKY Soccer Club. In 2010, Bargblor came to CU's Finley Stadium wearing No. 5 for Brescia. Fresh off being named the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (KIAC) Player of the Week, he kept the Tiger defense on its toes all game in a 2-0 CU win. A year later when CU traveled to Owensboro, Ky., Bargblor was not on the field, and Preston began to see where the young forward was playing. Not playing anywhere, Bargblor transferred to Campbellsville in 2012 and competed on the track-and-field team while waiting to return to the soccer field this fall. "What he doesn't get credit for is how many problems he causes for other teams. He's the fastest guy I've coached and Top 3 I've seen on the field for as long as I've been coaching," said Preston. "He constantly stretches defenses and gave us all kinds of trouble when we played him at Brescia. Every week, he could be Player of the Week based on what he does. Roraigh's goals come off the space that he makes and he connects well. He's fighting with a Jamaican U-20 national and a first-team All-Conference guy and winning starts off those guys. We have a fantastic strike force, but he has the best attitude and works his heart off every single day." After arriving at CU, Bargblor then told Preston about Malachiyev, who was getting ready to graduate from WCHS. "I'd seen video of Max that wasn't flattering but when he got, I was impressed. I knew he was our guy," Preston said. "When Max is focused, he's one of the best keepers I've seen ... John Kennedy, the center of our defene and heart of our team, has helped Max grow up. Max's maturity has grown so much this year. He's made mistakes along the way, but the kids that really make it in life are the ones that grow from their mistakes, and Max has done that. "I think he's just starting to play at the very beginning of the level he can get to. I think he can be fantastic." This story was posted on 2013-10-10 09:37:35
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