Indoor soccer season over

Times Reporter

 

The indoor soccer season is over for another year, and the U14 boys Spur team finished with a gold medal win. The Spurs played within the Calgary Minor Soccer league, after being approved, and were in Edmonton to compete in the Inter-cities last month. 

The boys had a rough start to the season, but after Christmas and the seeding round was done, they were tiered more to their level. 

“From there that’s where we really excelled and our team I think started to gel together, so we were actually undefeated in the second half of the season,” said coach Dennis Klem. 

In the first half of the season the team played eight games, won one, lost five and tied two that was during the seeding round. Then in the playoff round after being reseeded the team played nine games, won seven, tied two and lost zero. 

After placing first in their Tier 5 playoff round, the boys were given an opportunity to play in Inter-cities. Klem said Inter-cities are considered the provincial level and it was exciting for the boys to get to that level considering the slower start to the season.

“In there we got to play the top two teams out of Calgary… and we also got to play the top two teams out of Edmonton.  During the Inter-cities we actually faired pretty good. We won two games and tied our last games, so that was able to give us a gold medal for the Inter-city aspect,” said Klem. 

Klem attributes the successful end to the season to the boys beginning to gel together and anticipate some of the passes. The forwards were helping out to cover in the defensive end when necessary. Klem said goalie Nick Torrez was a powerful goalie, and helped in a lot of situations. Klem did say there were a couple of other guys that stepped up to plate as goalie in his occasional absence or injury.

“I was quite proud of how the boys conducted themselves during the playoff round there in Edmonton. It was fairly clean play, there weren’t any issues from the reffing… they showed really good sportsmanship, and that was actually not just our teams but all teams that we played against,” said Klem. 

Outdoor season is set to begin in the next couple of weeks, and new fields will be ready for use when the weather warms up.