Lindberg’s Pirates have taken many steps forward

The Seton Hall men’s soccer program is off to a hot start in the 2018 season and looks primed to finish with a winning record for the first time in 12 years.

Since 2006, the team has not had a winning percentage over .500. Under first-year head coach Andreas Lindberg, the team has a .562 winning percentage and is on pace for nine victories. This would be the most since 2006, although in that year the program had 18 matches, in contrast to the 15 matches this season.

Lindberg has turned the soccer program around since he was hired last December, but that does not come as a shock due to his reputation as being a perennial winner. In his 12 seasons as a college coach, Lindberg has accumulated a…