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NASL NEWSLETTER |
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December 23, 2002 |
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HAPPY
HOLIDAYS! |
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This is the
46th issue distributed to the new NASL list. The previous newsletters are now on-line at http://www.nasl.com/current_news.htm |
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Articles in this week's newsletter:
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- Upcoming Soccer
Calendar
- Final Notes on
State Cup
- State Cup Champions
- Engineers Discover
Secrets of Soccer Free Kicks
- Entry
Level (Grade 8) Clinic for USSF Referees
- Not exactly your
low scoring soccer match.
- Need updated
information on 2003 Soccer Camps
- "Playing with Pain
has No Gender"
- SUPER: A
Sports-Based Life Skills Program
- High School Referee
Certification Dates
- New Indoor Soccer
League in Decatur
- Just 4 Kicks 5v5
Youth Tournament (with guest WUSA Atlanta Beat) - February 14-16
- 2003 Great Patriot
Shoot-out Indoor Tournament
- Boys ODP Northern
Border Festival Schedule
- Girls ODP Northern
Border Festival Schedule
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Soccer Calendar -
Dates to Remember |
More information on all
events below is available at the NASL website. |
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Registration for Division III and Division IV members
may begin - January 1,
2003
- ODP
Border Festival for Boys - Huntsville - January 3rd-5th,
2003
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AHSAA Referee Camp - January 11, 2002 -
more info
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Great Patriot Shoot-out Indoor Tournament - January
25th and 26th, 2003
- ODP
Border Festival for Girls - Huntsville - January 31, 2003 -
February 2nd, 2003
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Entry Level USSF Referee (Grade 8) Course will be
conducted by USSF instructors in Huntsville on Jan 31 - Feb 2
at the First Christian Church on Whitesburg Drive (located
about 300 yards south of the
Drake Avenue intersection). This course requires three days.
Times are:
Friday (1/31) - 6:00 to 10:00
Saturday (2/1) - 9:00 to 5:00
Sunday (2/2) - 1:00 to 5:00
Sign up sheets are available at Pete's Soccer Shops on
Whitesburg in Huntsville and the Madison location also.
Current referees may re-certify by taking the test at the end
of the clinic.
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Division III and Division IV players may be officially
rostered to Spring teams
as of this date
- February 1,
2003
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Just4Kicks Youth Soccer Tournament -
Feb 14-16, 2003
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Submission of Registration forms and fees due
in AYSA office. These must be true, accurate number of new
member registrations and fees. Member cards will be issued to
clubs for Division III and Division IV members once forms and
fees are submitted. - February 15,
2003
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USSF "C"
License - February 24th - March 3rd, 2003 in
Birmingham
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Statewide
Division III and Division IV League play may begin
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March 1, 2003
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HHS JV Super Cup - Huntsville High School will be
holding a JV Tournament on March 14-15, 2003 at the John Hunt
Soccer Complex. Boys teams from Alabama and Tennessee and
Girls teams from Birmingham, Huntsville, Madison and Ft Payne
have already signed up. You may contact Jim Saunders
jim.saunders@gti-us.com
256-533-3466 for more info.
- Final date
for Statewide Division III and Division IV League play
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May 10, 2003
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"Spring"
Tide American Festival
- May 17, 2003
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Final Notes about State
Cup: |
State Cup was an unqualified success for Huntsville for the
second straight year. Despite a fall soccer season that
was one of the wettest in memory, the weather was great on
December 7th and 8th. Maybe not perfect, but with four times more
rain in fall 2003 than in 2002 dry weekends were extremely
scarce and this one was dry and beautiful on Saturday and
Sunday.
The Hoover Phantoms U18 boys won their last state
championship. These boys have won every year since they
were U10s!
The overall quality of play in our state is the best
it's ever been. You only had to look at the U12 girls
games in the Division II state cup to see just what we can
expect in the future.
Special thanks go out to the many, many
volunteers who helped make State Cup in Huntsville a rousing
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Snickers State Cup Champions |
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http://www.nasl.com/state_cup.htm |
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Engineers Discover Secrets
of Soccer Free Kicks |
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http://www.fluent.com/about/news/pr/pr43.htm |
Three collaborating groups of
researchers have unraveled some of the underlying mysteries of
"bending" a soccer ball during kicking .....
Really cool simulations.
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Level (Grade 8) Clinics for USSF Referees |
Entry Level USSF Referee (Grade 8) Course
will be conducted by USSF instructors in Huntsville on January 31st - February
2nd, 2003 at the First Christian Church on Whitesburg Drive (located about 300 yards
south of the Drake Avenue intersection). This course requires three days.
Times are:
Friday (1/31) - 6:00 to 10:00
Saturday (2/1) - 9:00 to 5:00
Sunday (2/2) - 1:00 to 5:00
Sign up sheets are available at Pete's Soccer Shops on Whitesburg in
Huntsville and the Madison location also. Interested parties can contact
either me or Tommy Hunt for further info.
Mike Costello
michael.costello@boeing.com
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Not Exactly Your Low-Scoring Soccer Match
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) -
Newly-crowned Madagascan champions AS Adema thrashed their
opponents 149-0 in a top national league soccer match after the
opposition deliberately scored one own goal after another in a
protest over a refereeing decision.
Radio Madagascar reported Friday that Stade Olympique
l'Emyrne scored the own goals against Adema as a protest after
SOE's coach Ratsimandresy RaCzarazaka lost his temper with the
referee.
Spectators told the radio that following the row Thursday
between RaCzarazaka and the referee at Adema's home ground in the
port of Toamasina, SOE repeatedly kicked the ball toward their own
goal after each kickoff and scored 149 own goals in the process.
Adema's players reportedly stood around looking bemused,
doing nothing to stop the opposition from self-destructing.
Radio Madagascar claimed the result represented a new world
record score in a first class match.
SOE were last year's Malagasy champions who surprisingly won
through to the second round of the African Champions League this
season. Adema clinched the Malagasy title last weekend.
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Need updated information on 2003
Soccer Camps |
I am in the process of updating the website information on soccer camps.
If you are involved with a soccer camp please e-mail your updated
information for 2003 to
dsports@hiwaay.net.
http://www.nasl.com/camps.htm
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PLAYING WITH PAIN HAS NO GENDER |
by Harvey Araton - New York Times
SHE was in excruciating distress on the trainer's
table, one leg as tight and unbendable as a goal post, her right eye
bruised and her vision blurred, her tongue numb and her words slurred,
her stomach nauseated and her body dehydrated. The worst of it was that
Lauren Arase couldn't shake the sickly sensation that she, the senior
goalkeeper playing in her last game, the championship game, had quit.
She wondered what people would say if her team
lost, and what it might say about women in sports — this without even
considering the growing chorus of Title IX critics who argue that women
don't deserve equal athletic footing on scholastic and collegiate levels
because, for reasons biological and cultural, they lack the same
interest and appetite for athletic competition as men.
"I felt like a wuss," Arase would say, "because
all my life, I believed that I couldn't show weakness, I couldn't pull
myself out if I was hurt, I couldn't let people say, 'She's just a
girl.' Through all the injuries and adversities, I always believed that
I couldn't just play as good as a man, couldn't be just as tough. I had
to play better, be tougher, because only then did you get respect."
To
finish reading the complete article go to
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/22/
sports/soccer/22ARAT.html
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SUPER : A Sports-Based Life Skills
Program
Steven J. Danish, Tanya Taylor, Lisa Harmon |
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Increasingly, sport participation has become a non-school activity.
With all the pressures on schools to improve the academic performance of
its students, sport and physical education have become targets of
elimination. Intramural sports, and for that matter, physical education
has almost been eliminated at most secondary schools. School-based
sports have been reduced for all but the most talented student
athletes. Perhaps these cutbacks are a result of the inability of those
who support sport to make the case and ensure that sport is designed to
promote adolescent social and personal development as well as provide
opportunities for fun and exercise. SUPER was developed with the
specific intent of teaching both sport skills and life skills as a means
of enhancing participants' athletic and personal development.
SUPER (Sports United to Promote Education and Recreation) is a
sports-based life skills program developed by the Life Skills Center at
Virginia Commonwealth University designed for middle and high
school-aged adolescents.
SUPER is taught like sports clinics with participants involved in
three sets of activities: learning the physical skills related to a
specific sport; learning life skills related to sports in general; and
playing the sport. Each clinic runs approximately two hours with the
life and sport skill instruction being taught for about 30-40 minutes
each. We have developed 17 life skill modules. They are: Developing a
Team, Dare to Dream, Setting Goals--Part 1, Setting Goals--Part 2,
Setting Your Goal, Making a Goal Ladder (A Plan), Identifying and
Overcoming Roadblocks, Seeking Help from Others, Using Positive Self
Talk, Learning to Relax, Managing Emotions, Developing a Healthy
Lifestyle, Appreciating Differences, Developing Confidence and Courage,
Setting Personal Performance Goals and Goal Setting for Life. The first
seven modules are taught as a group and in order. The other 10 modules
can be taught in any order and/or can be omitted depending on the time
available. Other modules are being developed, including a parent and
coach component. SUPER is not sport specific and has been taught in
conjunction with a variety of individual and team sports.
How are life skills learned? They are not learned
through mere participation--no ball or venue has ever taught life
skills. They are not learned by hearing lectures from well-known
athletes about the dangers of certain behaviors or the value of other
behaviors--we remember only about 10% of what we are told. Life skills
must be purposely planned and taught. They cannot be caught. Remember
the Chinese proverb - I listen - and forget, I see - and remember,
I do - and understand.
For more information contact
Dr. Steven Danish
(888.572.1572)
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High School Referee Certification
Dates |
All, please know that for attending the
AHSAA Northern District Camp on January 11th, you would be exempt from
the Re-Classification exam for 3 years, for those referees who are State
Class 2, and State Class 3 referees. Everyone, must re-certify ever
year, as a Referee for AHSAA.
Also, these are the tentative dates, and a letter
from the AHSAA State Office will be mailed later this week, with the
official dates and times for all of the AHSAA Rules Clinics throughout
the State.
CY2003 AHSAA referee certification.
District Camp:
1/11/03, SAT, TBD Time, Huntsville (TBD location)
Other classes:
1/23/02, THU, 7:00 - 10:00, Florence (Coffee HS)
1/27/02, MON, 7:00 - 10:00, Huntsville (Whitesburg MS)
1/30/02, THU, 7:00 - 10:00, Guntersville (Rec Center)
Tommy Hunt
AHSAA - Northern District Soccer Director
(h) 256-882-2992,
tjhbama@comcast.net
(w) 256-895-1612,
tommy.j.hunt@hnd01.usace.army.mil
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New Indoor Soccer League in
Decatur |
I am passing along information from David Kross about a
new indoor soccer league being held in the new gymnasium at Central
United Methodist Church in Decatur. You may contact David Kross at
353-6941 or cumdavid@hiwaay.net
The information is posted on-line at
http://www.decatursports.com/indoor/cumc_league.htm
The basic details are below:
Central United Methodist Church is going to host a
winter indoor soccer league. The divisions are U8 boys, U8 girls, U10
boys, U10 girls, U12 boys, and U12 girls. If we do not get enough
response we will open up an U14 division. You may sign up as a team or
as an individual. Individuals will be put in random on teams (dependent
on the number of individuals that sign up). A roster can hold up to 8
players. We will make teams out of the individuals that sign up. We will
try to work out the schedules so that teams that were 'put together'
will mostly play teams that were 'put together.' The fee for a team is
$200. The fee per individual is $25. This fee covers the cost of
referees, the facility, goals, and workers to open/close the facility.
The deadline for an individual or a team to enter is December 30.
Schedules and teams will be posted/mailed out January 3. Space is
limited to 24 teams.
Highlights:
- Games will be on
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
- Tuesday games will
be played from 5 until 7:30.
- Thursday games will
be played from 5 until 7.
- Saturday games will
be played from 8 to 12.
- The facility will
be available for practicing Friday and Saturday evenings.
- Coaches will
receive an informational packet after a team signs up.
- First practices
will be January 7, January 9, and January 10.
- The games will
begin January 11 and end March 8.
- Each team is
guaranteed eight games (there may be more).
- Practice times will
be available on a reservation basis.
- Cost: $200/team or
$25 per individual
- Deadline to sign
up: December 30th, 2002
Sign up by taking this form to Central United Methodist Church on the
corner of Jackson Street SE and Sixth Avenue SE in Decatur. If you
have any
questions call David Kross at 353-6941 or email at
cumdavid@hiwaay.net
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Just 4 Kicks 5v5 Youth
Tournament (with guest WUSA Atlanta Beat) - February 14-16 |
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Inaugural
5v5 Youth Tournament |
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WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
The ATLANTA BEAT
FEBRUARY 14TH, 15TH
AND 16TH, 2003
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Boys and Girls
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U-9 to U-14
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Limited to
66 teams
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3 games
per team guaranteed
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Registration fee: $275.00 per team.
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Maximum 9 person roster.
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Contact Ricky Crawford 256-534-4939
or 256-990-1134
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e-mail
rickydc@mindspring.com
Opening
ceremonies will begin Friday 14th at 5p.m. with live music,
food and other activities. Games will start Saturday 15th at
7a.m.. Atlanta Beat will conduct a mini camp on Friday 14th
2003 from 7p.m. till 10 p.m. The cost per child is $55.00. There are
only 80 spots for this camp so be quick to register. Dinner with team
will be auctioned off prior to start of the tournament.
Register on-line @
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2003 Great Patriot Shoot-out Indoor Tournament
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- WHEN: Matches will be played Saturday
and Sunday, January 25th and 26th, 2003.
- WHERE: All matches will be played at
Bob Jones High School in Madison, AL.
- COST: Early bird registration: Save on
your entry fee! Team entry fee reduced to $75 if postmarked by
November 30, 2002. Fee must accompany your application. The entry fee
is $85 per team and must accompany your application. The deadline for
applications is January 3, 2003. Teams accepted will receive a packet
of schedules, maps, rules, etc. Make checks payable to: Bob Jones High
School Soccer Boosters and mail entry forms to:
Patriot Shoot Out
c/o Mary Lynn Botts
126 Stoneway Trail
Madison, AL 35758
- WHO: Boys and Girls Teams U8 through
U14
- FORMAT: Six-player teams - Teams will
play with five field players and a goalkeeper. Maximum number of
players on the roster is 10 and this number will be strictly enforced.
Each team will be scheduled at least three, 20 minute matches. Indoor
“fuzzy” ball will be provided. Please do not bring your own balls into
the facility.
- ELIGIBILITY: All players require:
listed on team roster – frozen for the weekend
(TEN players max per team - no exceptions!)
proof of age (birth certificate or player card with picture)
medical release form (blank provided)
indoor shoes and shin guards
players may only play for one team in an age group.
- Download the 2003 Zipped Entry forms
at
http://www.nasl.com/bjshootout/bobjones.htm
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Boys ODP Northern Border Festival
January 4th & 5th, 2003
Boy's
Border Festival Schedule |
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- Dates: Boys Border Festival – January
4th & 5th
- Sites: Huntsville, John Hunt Soccer
Complex
Saturday, January 4th
- 9:00am Alabama Coaching Staff
Breakfast (upstairs) (AL Staff)
- 9:00am Alabama Teams check in report
to fields for Fitness Testing
- 12pm Alabama Lunch with teams &
meeting with Staff
- 2pm Optional light training/walk
through with Staff Coaches
- 5pm
Field 1 – 89Boys Team #1
Field 2 – 89Boys Team #2
Field 3 – 90Boys Team #3
- 6:30pm
Field 1 – 88Boys
Field 2 – 87Boys
Field 3 – 90Boys Team #1
Field 4 – 90Boys Team #2
- 8pm
Field 1 – 86Boys
Field 2 – 85Boys
Sunday, January 5th
- 9am
Field 1 – 89Boys Team #1
Field 2 – 89Boys Team #2
Field 3 – 90BoysTeam #3
- 10:30am
Field 1 – 88Boys
Field 2 – 87Boys
Field 3 – 90Boys Team #1
Field 4 – 90Boys Team #2
- 12pm
Field 1 – 86Boys
Field 2 – 85Boys
- 2pm - Alabama Teams meet with Staff
Coaches
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Girls ODP Northern Border Festival
February 1st & 2nd, 2003
Girl's
Border Festival Schedule |
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- Dates: Girls Border Festival –
February 1st & 2nd
- Sites: Huntsville, John Hunt Soccer
Complex
Saturday, February 1st
- 9:00am Alabama Coaching Staff
Breakfast (upstairs) (AL Staff)
- 9:00am Alabama Teams check in report
to fields for Fitness Testing
- 12pm Alabama Lunch with teams &
meeting with Staff
- 2pm Optional light training/walk
through with Staff Coaches
- 5pm
Field 1 – 89Girls Team #1
Field 2 – 89Girls Team #2
Field 3 – 90Girls Team #3
- 6:30pm
Field 1 – 88Girls
Field 2 – 87Girls
Field 3 – 90Girls Team #1
Field 4 – 90Girls Team #2
- 8pm
Field 1 – 86Girls
Field 2 – 85Girls
Sunday, February 2nd
- 9am
Field 1 – 89Girls Team #1
Field 2 – 89Girls Team #2
Field 3 – 90Girls Team #3
- 10:30am
Field 1 – 88Girls
Field 2 – 87Girls
Field 3 – 90Girls Team #1
Field 4 – 90Girls Team #2
- 12pm
Field 1 – 86Girls
Field 2 – 85Girls
- 2pm
Alabama Teams meet with Staff Coaches
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NASL
NEWSLETTER:
You
may sign up for the NASL e-mail list and also provide changes (including
removing your name from the list) to your
current e-mail address and phone numbers by using this form at
http://www.nasl.com/Email.htm
This is our means of keeping the local soccer community up-to-date on
events and items of interest. If
you have something to contribute please e-mail me at dsports@hiwaay.net
All of the above information and more is on-line at http://www.nasl.com
Thanks
for being involved in soccer in Alabama.
Ken Gamble - NASL Secretary
"Next Goal Wins!" |
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