A Spanish Soccer Adventure For Missouri Girls

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Nice story in the Mexico Missouri Ledger about recent graduate Sarah Ogar and the soccer adventure she participated in during July. Sarah was part of a group of 15 girls that were pulled together by Chris Miller, President of the Missouri Soccer Coaches Association as well as Head Coach of the Southern Boone County Eagles, [...]

We Were Part Of The Record Soccer Crowd In Kansas City!

Bailey Pesek and Taylor Stamper at Arrowhead Stadium

A pair of Nixa Lady Eagles were fortunate enough to attend the recent Manchester United game against the KC Wizards last Sunday. They share a picture of their visit and thoughts on the soccer adventure. Bailey says: Having the opportunity to see Manchester United play in the United States doesn’t happen every day. When my [...]

For there’s not a team like the Glasgow Rangers! No, not one, and there never shall be one!

Walter Smith, Glasgow Rangers with Dr Ben Goss, MSU

What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas. Earlier this summer, I traveled westward for a highly anticipated adventure. But before it can be entirely understood, some prerequisite background must be related. Two major forces collided for me as the calendar turned from 2006 to 2007. A few months before, in my occupation as [...]

Siemens Turblex Springfield Returns With Hardware

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We made it back from the Siemens We Are Energy! Soccer Cup tournament in Germany. With 40 teams from 26 different countries the event was truly a memorable experience. This event gave us a chance to meet people from other Siemens companies. The soccer cup was a great team building event for all of us [...]

Siemens Turblex Springfield Final Preparation – The best of the WÜRST

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Here’s an update on the Springfield Siemen’s Turblex team that is headed to Germany. Siemens Energy is hosting a worldwide soccer tournament as part of the “We Are Energy!” campaign. The soccer tournament will be June 12 -13 2010 in Erlangen, Germany on the Siemens sports grounds. There will be 40 teams from 24 countries [...]

Siemen’s Turblex Springfield Preparing For World Cup 2010

Siemen's Energy Springfield Preparing for World Cup 2010

So what are your plans for the 2010 World Cup, now a mere 31 days away? There’s a great local story I’m happy to be able to share with you. The local Siemen’s Turblex office has been chosen to compete in the Siemen’s “We Are Energy” campaign that includes a worldwide soccer tournament among their [...]

Dallas Moses’ Soccer Experience in Dalian, China

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During the fall semester 2009 my father, Duane Moses, accepted a position at Missouri State University’s College of International Business, campus in Dalian, China. When he first talked to me about this, I was concerned about missing my friends, playing soccer and training with Cory Carr at Integrity. However, it has turned out to be [...]

How Was Your Weekend?

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I ask that question as a prelude to sharing Andy Wilkinson’s weekend with you from last week. As you can see in the photos, he covered a lot of bases. He started his road trip with a drive from Joplin up to Kansas City to enjoy the KC Wizards game against the LA Galaxy on [...]

Springfield Catholic Boys Touring, And Playing, In England

We arrived on Friday July 24 in Manchester Airport after a very long and delayed flight. However, even being jet lagged and exhausted we went to Old Trafford, Manchester United’s stadium. It is the largest stadium in English Football seating just over 75,000 people. After this we checked into Chester College where we have stayed [...]

Drury Panthers Men Begin Preseason Trip To England

The Panther’s took off on Monday morning for England where they will be touring and playing a series of games against local opponents as part of their preseason training this year. It’s a trip the NCAA allows once every four years and a new tradition that Coach Bilbao brought with from his time at Truman [...]

Upper Hutt City Soccer Welcomes Carver And Seabolt

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Time for another update from New Zealand where for the second straight season Springfield is well represented. Here’s how the Chairman of the Upper Hutt City Soccer program describes it in their recent newsletter: As many of you will know, we have another American import in our ranks this year, Patrick Carver, who has followed [...]

Soccer Tour To France And Spain In 2010 For High School Girls

I received this from Chris Miller, Head Coach at Southern Boone as well as President of the Missouri High School Soccer Coaches Association. He is organizing a trip to France and Spain for High School Girls (2011 grads or under, not sure what that means). Here are the details: europe-2010-france-and-barcelona I wanted to contact you [...]

“Rudo y Cursi” Showing At The Moxie Beginning Friday

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Rudo y Cursi Rated R – language, sexual content and brief drug use Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna play two brothers scraping by as laborers in rural Mexico , until one day a scout spies their friendly game of soccer and sign them on as star athletes for rival teams. They quickly learn that [...]

Patrick Carver Checks In From New Zealand

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Once again this season, or more specifically this Winter season in New Zealand, the Upper Hutt City squad has a representative from Springfield. This season Parkview graduate Patrick Carver is playing in the New Zealand Premier League. He sent the photos along with the current standings, which show Upper Hutt in 5th place currently. Patrick [...]

Eddie Horn, Jeff City Jays, On Umbro/West Ham United Youth Development Trip

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I’m delighted to offer a great report from Head Coach Eddie Horn, Jeff City Jays, on a Youth Development program trip he was able to take earlier this year to West Ham United. Sponsored by Umbro, he’s documented the trip for us via a Q&A format with his close friend Terry Michler, Head Coach of [...]