Homecoming for Lynden Prince

By Phillip Ragan

Popular local soccer coach returns to the club he loves.

Lynden Prince started playing for Riverside Olympic aged 15, after leaving High School, working his way through youth and reserve teams into the seniors who were playing State League at the time.

A few years later Riverside withdrew from the State-wide competition, so Lynden went down to Launceston City for a couple of seasons to continue playing at the highest level in Tasmania.

He later returned to Riverside where he stayed for many years.

‘I’ve been doing soccer for 35 years or so, playing and coaching,’ Lynden said.

When asked how many games he’d played for the club, Lynden said he’d never really thought about it but estimated he’d played around 800 games across all grades for Riverside but couldn’t possibly know for sure, ‘there was a time when we played games all year round, winter and summer, 2 years straight, so we never