| Three local teams advance to 2009 US Youth Soccer National
US Youth Soccer announced the schedule for the 2009 US Youth Soccer National Championships to be played July 21-26 at Citizens Bank Fields at Progin Park in Lancaster, Mass., outside of Boston. The tournament will consist of US Youth Soccer Regional Champions in the Under-14 through Under-19 age groups for boys and girls as well as the US Youth Soccer National League qualifiers in the Under-15 through Under-17 Boys and Girls age groups to complete the field of 60 teams. The traditional 48 teams have advanced to the national championships via success through the first two legs of the annual US Youth Soccer National Championship Series where more than 10,000 teams began their journey at the US Youth Soccer State Championships. State champions advanced to their respective US Youth Soccer Regional Championship, four in all, where over 900 teams competed from all corners of the country.
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It is a Friday night in June, on a green carpet at Ann Arbor's Wideworld Sports Center, where a dozen city-league soccer players are competing against one another. The field is more hockey rink than verdant soccer pitch, rimmed with walls and netting. Three players play offense, two play defense and one plays in goal -- in theory. On some nights, it is simply chaos and the ball ricochets from one end to the other like a bullet, while a desperate phalanx of feet chase after it. On other nights, a single force dominates, as it did on this recent Friday. "Pass the ball! Pass the ball!" Sara Silvennoinen kept yelling, but she couldn't do much about it. She was the coach, yes, and the founder of the team, yes, and the person who convinced, pressured and willed these people to lace up cleats, put on a jersey and spend a couple of hours running and sweating every week.
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The store is at 637 John R. SOCCER: The Xtreme Soccer League will take a one-year hiatus and use that time to try to attract additional investors. The Detroit Ignition, one of four teams in the league, will conduct its summer camps as scheduled. The league said in a release that the economic slowdown was behind the decision and that it hopes to resume competition next year. Free press staff reports .
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