LISA u12B Photos

will be posted this week!

Recent English Football Stadium Announcements

"And the scorer for Plymouth is number 36, Jermaine 'have a nice' Easter!"
Plymouth announcer after Jermaine Easter scored on Easter Saturday.

"If you want to know the half-time scores then you'll have to read the scoreboard, as I've been asked by little Liam not to read them out as he wants to watch Match of the Day tonight."
Stadium announcer at Ipswich v Charlton.


"Goalscorer for Radcliffe Borough, number 3.... may as well stop celebrating and look to the left, you're offside."
The young tannoy operator at a recent non-league game.

"All Change at Crewe for number 36, Dean Morgan, who is replaced by number 7, Steven Schumaker."
Walsall announcer goes train spotting as he announces a substitution for Crewe on Bank Holiday Monday.


Source: www.bbc.co.uk/sport

Game Schedules

March 29th/30th LISA Full field festival!

The Dragons are team #8 while Team Urgo is team #22 on the schedule!

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Dragons play: Saturday March 29 at 1pm and 3pm ! The opponents will be strong so let's prepare for these games!
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Team Urgo plays Sunday at 10am vs PLSC and 12 noon vs PSC (any one wanting to play extra games let Mario know)
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our Gordon Head Tournament shedule is starting to appear online HERE
first game is vs the Phantoms!!!!

Funny (soccer) Quote of the Week

STADIUM ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE WEEK

"And now the Olympiakos teamsheet...wish me luck!"

Chelsea announcer before reading out a list of players including Zewlakow, Patsatzoglou and Djordjevic.

(Chelsea Boy, England: source BBC).

Quote of the Week

"Football is like fighting a gorilla - you don't stop when you're tired, you can only stop when the gorilla is tired."

Coventry boss Chris Coleman after QPR's defence makes a monkey of his strikers in their 0-0 draw.

2nd to last u12B league game this weekend....

Saturday March 8th

8.30am kick off

on Braefoot#2West

Seems like it was just a few weeks ago when Coaches Mario and Peter where selecting their 'AllSports Dragons' 2007/8 team..at that time I remember a 'tune up game' between LakeHill and Prospect Lake at Beckwith Park... thats when the lads still played on grass! Since then the Dragons have had a great season of soccer development and played many memorable games (and a few where the Cylinders did not fire up)..but all that comes to an end this weekend when the official Super8 season ends as the Dragons play PLSC! Should be entertaining!

(coaches have one more game lined up..stay tuned)

(hopefully the last 8.30am start we will ever see at Braefoot Park ;)

Are you a 'World Cup Player" ?

Space is still available in this always popular weekend of 6v6 soccer. Players register individually at $45/player and will play 4 games. Players are assigned to play on for a 'country' with players that are usually on competing LISA u12 teams! It's a weekend of fun !

Not to late to register HERE

Next up: CBSA

Braefoot Park March 1st 8.30am

followed by the Indoor Skills and Drills 1pm-2.30pm at Oak Bay Rec Turf

Soccer Quote of the week

Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas says he has become more team-focused in the last year after admitting that he used to "want to show more of his own stuff" and was guilty of playing as an individual. (bbc.co.uk/sports)

full field ahead.....

Well done Dragons!

10-0 over the "guest" u13B Silver team

2-1 over the "home" u14G Gold team

Watching the play last night there was some very nice 'crisp' foot-to-foot one touch passing plays! Well done!

Spring League

Talk with your coaches if you want to be 'part of the team'

Spring League?

The coaches are looking to put in one or maybe even two teams at Spring League this year.

Spring League is played at Hampton Turf and runs starting the last week of April for 10 weeks. At $80/player its a bargain as you get a full uniform you can keep! The focus is on the quick game and is a great way for the players to supplement their Italia training with an intense weekly hour against other players from various clubs!

let Mario know if you are interested!

BIG GAMES this Saturday on TV

set your video recorders!

Quote of the Week

"Believe you me, if that ball had gone in the net, it would have been a goal."


Willie Miller (Aberdeen Director of Football) commentating on the Dundee United-Hibs game for Radio Scotland. (www.bbc.co.uk/sport).

u12B indoor skills & drills

Marios Assessment:

Good Effort, Strong Skills, Always room to improve- come out to Dev Night!!!

a juggle here, a volley back...

looks like we have a backup keeper!
kinda like these special diadora balls!

we will replay this event March 1st 1pm-2.30pm back at OBR!

GHSA match *CANCELLED*

The morning match has been CANCELLED BY GHSA DUE TO FIELD CONDITIONS! Sorry....

http://www.ghsa.bc.ca/ for field conditions (its looking wet right now!)

Is that pitch playable?

We all know that the main LakeHill and Gordon Head fields are suffering from wear and tear right now and as a result a number of games have had to be cancelled so we thought..what about in the United Kingdom? British weather is not much better than ours and they have lots of players on their grounds especially if they are one of the many smaller clubs. Have a look at this BBC video (click here) to see how a PITCH INSPECTION is performed! of course we just need to take one look at Braefoot to know the answer at our park!

Game is a GO for Saturday

as of 7am on Saturday Feb 2nd the Gordon Head Fields are OPEN for todays Dragons game!

Back on Braefoot...

make sure every touch is a good touch.... wearing the team jackets

below..nice socks Peter!

nice to be on the Braefoot Dirt again! Well done lads!

Next round...

Of the English FA Cup will be played Feb 16th and feature the two top teams in English football! Game will likely be carried on FOX SPORTS WORLD! Should be a game worth recording!