One Last Dance: Nov 14 @ 7:30PM
Come out on Friday as the USL Sounders All-Stars battle Bosnia Seattle in a charity match at Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila!
A little more than a month ago almost 100 ECS members met at the Atlantic Crossing for what many thought would be the final game the USL-1 Sounders would ever play. Then the team went on a week-long tour of Argentina as a thank you from team ownership for a job well done in the final season. No one honestly expected any results but the team showed heart in an outstanding display that saw the team go undefeated against Argentinian opposition. But surely, that had to be the curtain call.
Late last week the USL-1 Seattle Sounders announced that they would be taking on Bosnia Seattle in what must surely be the final match for the club. Don your scarf and fall/winter appearal for a friendly which will surely be exciting and will benefit a good cause. The $10 entrance fee will benefit the All Nations Cup School of Soccer for Under-served Children. Here’s a bit of what they had to say:
We have two very distinctive goals in mind:
Develop social skills and integrate children in society. We work on making them respect themselves and their cultural background. The so damaging looser/winner concept is excluded. Although competitiveness is developed children learn to work together and try to improve by having themselves as a parameter.
The second goal is to give these children a real chance to progress in soccer if they have the talent and desire. Our coaches are trained in a highly effective method and are all soccer players themselves. Children identified as having the talent and desire to go further receive special attention towards going to college and playing professional if it’s within their reach.
We have a program running in South Everett; one with the Muckleshoot Tribe, being extended to several tribes soon; one starting in Tukwila; a program starting for incarcerated youth and we’re starting one for African-American children.
Through soccer these children get integrated into American society as contributors, since we work on making them proud of who they are and of their culturally rich background. They learn respect for the other and their differences. We don’t work based on the paternalistic vision of poor little kids. They’re though that before being liked they have to be respected as equals to everybody. And that respect, as everything in life, should be a two-way road.
Tickets will only be $10 and free admission for kids under 12.
With this cause in mind: who could imagine a better way for the Sounders to wrap up a chapter in their colorful history?
See you on the terraces, this Friday!
