"You'll never walk alone"

'football' culture is very rich! And one of the cathedrals of the sport is Anfield where Liverpool FC play. The highlight of any visit is hearing the Liverpool anthem sung by the teams supporters. Click here for a 1minute video hosted at youTube.

Check your boots...

Do they still fit? Are they tight?

Time to check before the season begins!

Sequim Invitational ...

Coach Mario and his team of 36 players and parents walked onto the MV Coho with his 'u12B Crew' on August 26th for a day of 'full field' action in Sequim, Washington!
A fun day was had by all at Agnew Field just outside of Sequim! Thanks to our hosts: Pete, Tom and Dave! we look forward to having the Sequim lads up at Braefoot Field this season!

This was the second 'exchange' between our two clubs as the LakeHill u12G's played the previous weekend also in Sequim (August 19th).

Photos to follow!

Quiz:

School is on summer holiday but Coach Mario is giving the boys a "pop-quiz"... who can tell him what famous English soccer club once had this uniform (known as a 'kit')?

Click on this link for an encyclopedia of all known English and Scottish premier teams for their historical uniforms from the 1800s till today!

We will post the correct answer here next week!

TV Schedules for soccer coverage... *UPDATE* also on Shaw Digital ch.154

click here

August 11th is the kick-off for English Football on TV!

7am on Channel 23 (Rogers Sportsnet)

Bell ExpressVu has a free 30 day preview of Setanta.com's EPL coverage on channel 420 (also available on Shaw Digital - channel 154!!!! in Victoria!!!):

note that after Sept. 6th Setanta's new channel will cost $15/month

Premier League Soccer on The Score ..

The English FootBall season is about to begin on August 11th and this season sees a change in TV coverage. Games have moved from Saturday mornings on ch.23 (SportsNet) to Sundays on THE SCORE so as not to interfer with the u12Boys 8:30am games at Braefoot Park!!

Watching TV soccer is part of 'the boys' weekly 'homework'!

Here are some of the great games THE SCORE will be showing Sundays at 8am this season:

ManU vs. READ Aug. 12

LIVerpool vs. CHElsea Aug. 19
ManU vs. TOT Aug. 26

AstonVilla vs. CHElsea Sep. 2
ManCity vs. AstonVilla Sep. 16

ManU vs. CHElsea Sep. 23
EVErton vs. BORO Sep. 30

FULham vs. POR Oct. 7
WHAM vs. SUND Oct. 21
LIVerpool vs. ARSenal Oct. 28
WHAM vs. BOLton Nov. 4

POR vs. ManCity Nov. 11
FULham vs. BLK Nov. 25

Pre-season training...

In the next few days Coach Mario will announce his plans for the u12B Gold team to start training for another successful LISA Super8 season. Till then players can start preparing by looking at this two part BBC series including some instructional videos!

Blue-Red game

medals for the Mexican team for winning the Braefoot World Cup
now lets see what the u12G's will do with this game....
The boys scored some nice goals while the girls hit some posts!

more photos can be found on the http://lakehillreds.blogspot.com/ site and the ref awarded a PK to the Red team....

at the end it was a game of footie..

smiles all around!

Thanks to everyone! Mario's LakeHill u12B Gold team will start their pre-season in August.

Thanks to the Blue Crew for the month of July!

Second round of the Braefoot World Cup...

above, 'our sponsor'
... picking teams...lots of trades/transfers

Group photo took two takes... (click on photos for enlargements)

..at the Braefoot u12 world cup...

above, Italy playing the Portuguese!

above, Mexico scores!
Last we checked Italy was ahead 4-3 in extra time....

(when asked which team was Italy, Mario replied "whichever team is up 4-3!")

summer time...

Now that the u12 assessments are complete that means summer fun..there are lots of soccer camps with space still available! Keep fit, and get ready to wear the LakeHill stripes in September!

Check your soccer shoes..they should not fit you too tightly! Remember old shoes can be recycled so don't discard them! There are needy players who would welcome them.

http://projectecuador.blogspot.com/

Last assessment session...

Two of the best players where not eligible for selection :( this bodes well for the future at LakeHill !

This concludes the 5 assessment sessions for u12B..however their are still going to be some pre-season sessions held and we encourage everyone to attend as there will likely be three u12B teams at LakeHill and not all teams are 'set' yet. There is still one possible spot available for the Gold team and we have 4 spots for silver, this will depend on late registrations. Players will be receiving emails or phone calls from the division manager/or Team coach in August!

Thanks for the great turn out!

It is going to be a great Development Season at LakeHill this year!

u20 Finals Sunday morning on CBC-tv

07/22/2007 9 am
FIFA U-20 World Cup on CBC: Austria vs. Chile CBC-TV (ch 2), CBC-HD

07/22/2007 12 noon
FIFA U-20 World Cup on CBC: Czech Rep. vs. Argentina CBC-TV, CBC-HD

Thursday shoot-outs!

and the winner was....

Try-out #4

u12G Manager: Robert ran some of the u12B's through their paces, wow! what talented bunch of boys!! Some great volley skills, headers...good basic skills!
Only one more session before some difficult decisions have to be made, so make sure that all players attend this Saturday from 11am-12.30noon at Reynolds Park!

u12 assessments tonight

A little rain won't stop Mario and the lads!

6.30pm at Braefoot#3..

Parents: bring umbrellas!

Tuesday Training (Boys Edition)

above, the boys worked very hard on the "slalom hill drill"
now with the balls...

keep the ball close to your feet...

notice how the boys are keeping very tight to the poles..

lots of good foot work today!

To see how the girls did with the same drill look here