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Josh Drack

American soccer player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ106673480
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Joshua Drack (born September 22, 1999) is an American soccer player who currently plays as a full back for Portland Hearts of Pine in the USL League One. A graduate of the University of Denver, Drack was selected 16th overall in the 2021 MLS SuperDraft by LA Galaxy. He previously played for LA Galaxy II, Huntsville City FC, Charleston Battery, and Westchester SC.

Career

Youth

Drack was part of the Arizona Arsenal Soccer Club and Real Salt Lake academy in Arizona, before moving to the Portland Timbers academy in 2016. In addition, he was with the Chilean clubs Colo-Colo and Universidad Católica in a brief trial step at the age of 14.

College and amateur

In 2017, Drack went to play college soccer at Grand Canyon University. In two years with the Antelopes, Drack made 39 appearances, scoring six goals and tallying seven assists. Following his freshman season, Drack was named WAC Freshman of the Year, was named to the conference's All-Freshman team and All-Conference honorable mention. In 2019, Drack transferred to the University of Denver where he played a single season, scoring five goals and tallying three assists for the Pioneers. He was named Summit League Second Team and to the Summit League All-Newcomer Team. Drack's Senior season at Denver was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Josh Drack” as american soccer player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2021, 2016, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999-09-22. The account is most persuasive where Josh, Drack and American can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american soccer player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q106673480. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1999, 2021, 2016 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from Josh Drack” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.