It looks like there will be an indoor tournament in Sedalia on January 8-9 at the Exhibition Center. The U11 division was the only youth division to actually get team registrations. These include Jefferson Lightning, Columbia Attack and the two Sedalia Soccer 305 Spin teams (U10 and U11). There may also be a U10 rec team entered. Schedule still to be announced.

We will practice on Tuesday, January 4th at the 305 indoor. U10 at 5:00 and U11 at 6:30.

Our Team/Parent meeting will be on January 11, at 6:00pm at 305 Spin. Registration is the usual $125.00 per player. Practices will start the following week. The Spring season starts late March.

Happy New Year!!

Sedalia Soccer 305 Spin U10 and U11 boys got together on Saturday to purchase grocery items for Open Door in Sedalia as part of the PKSA indoor food drive. We met at 305 Spin, got in some indoor soccer and then headed to Aldi’s. At Aldi’s, we divided into 4 teams of 2, each got a cart and filled it with groceries. Everyone did a great job. We then checked out with an endless stream of food, loaded up the van and headed back to 305 indoor. Lori got pizza’s and the boys ate and played some more. We then headed out to the Exhibition Center and loaded in our goodies. Everyone had fun and it was a great experience. Well done, boys!

We had scheduled two sessions one at noon and the other at 2:30. We had 12 players each session to make up 4 teams of 3 players on a team. Each team created their own shirts and the boys were pretty creative. We played group play with everyone playing each other twice. Each team got 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw.

In the first sesson the teams were:
Team Green – Riley, Trey, Nick
Team Blue – Zachary, Colby, Landon
Team Orange – Hayden, Logan, Andrew
Team Yellow – Max, Alex, Matthew

Team Green won the group with team blue second, team orange, team yellow third and team orange, 4th. Then green played orange and blue played yellow with the winners going to the final. Orange pulled and upset beating Green 7 to 5. Then yellow upset blue beating them 5 to 2. In the consolation game Green and Blue tied 3 to 3. In the Final Yellow beat orange 5 to 3.

In the second session the teams were:
Team Blue – Hunter, Lallo, Zachary
Team Yellow – Riley, Eduardo, -
Team Orange – Trenton, Alex, Matthew
Team Green – Tanner, Ian, Dylan

Team Blue won the group with Orange in second, team Yellow in third and team Green, 4th. Then team blue playe green and orange played yellow with the winners going to the final. Blue beat Green 7 to 2 and Orange beat Yellow 7 to 6. In the consolation game Yellow beat Green 6 to 2. In the Final, Blue beat Orange 7 to 6.

It was a fun afternoon and the boys played hard and there was some really great individual skills and team play. Can’t wait for the next indoor session!

December 2, is a really BIG day in soccer. FIFA will announce the hosts for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup. This is the first time FIFA has announced two World Cups at one time. The finalists countries all made their presentations today in Zurich and the FIFA EXO committee will vote in the am and announce their decision to the world.

The announcement coverage will start around 8:30 am and the announcement should be around 9:00am central time.

You can watch the presentations on FIFA: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/bidders/live/index.html

The final announcement will be on Fox Soccer channel as well as the FIFA site and most sports news channels. Even ESPN, surely.

The 2018 group is:
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/bidders/2018/index.html
England
Spain/Portugal
Russia
Netherlands/Belgium

The 2022 group is:
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/bidders/2022/index.html  Â
Australia
Qatar
Japan
USA
Korea Republic 

Should be very, very exciting.