SSNYC Continues League Play

After falling last week 7-5 in a spirited game, Street Soccer New York City looks to rebound this Friday night. The game will take place at Chelsea Piers at 9pm vs Inter NY. Every game SSNYC has shown that they are not only improving their soccer skills but showing true fair play throughout. Last week 12 players from SSNYC came to play at the game, including 6 who are no longer living in the shelter. It has been a great transitional season for many of our players and we ask that you come out and continue supporting us as we achieve our goals on and off of the field!

Home: Inter NY
Away: Street Soccer USA
Date: 2/18/2011
Time: 9:00 PM
Day of Week: Fri

Street Soccer Bay Area Fan Club Kickoff!

Street Soccer USA supporters can join in to end homelessness on March 3rd in San Francisco at the Street Soccer Bay Area Fan Club Launch Party.

Email rob@streetsoccerusa.org for questions or visit www.streetsoccerusa.org/bayareafans to get your ticket to the event.




Street Soccer USA - Bay Area Fan Club Launch

Where: Sip Bar

787 Broadway
San Francisco, CA 94133
(415) 699-6545

When: March 3, 2011
Time: 6-9

get your tickets: www.streetsoccerusa.org/bayareafans

Facebook Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192420130785436&ref=ts

About:

Video Link: NBC Nightly News: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/38581006#38584806
Bay Area Program: http://kalwnews.org/audio/2010/07/29/soccer-social-change_497219.html
Street Soccer USA
“Ending Homelessness and Poverty is a Team Sport”

Street Soccer USA Bay Area is run in partnership with the St. Vincent de Paul Society Homeless Shelter. The team practices weekly and plays in local amateur adult soccer leagues in the city. Each year the SSUSA teams from across the country compete in the Street Soccer USA Cup and have a chance to make the SSUSA National Team and compete in the annual Homeless World Cup of soccer.

SS Dallas Holds First Practice

The Street Soccer Dallas team had a wonderful first practice. The players had very little (if any) soccer experience which, according to their coach Matt Valentine, will allow them to see greater progress and thus a more rewarding experience. The enthusiasm and willingness/desire to learn was infectious. In the locker room the coaches overheard the players saying that they really needed this - something fun to do. One of the players told one of the coaches that it was the most fun he had had in years.

This is just the start to another great Street Soccer USA program…. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!

SS Dallas after a great first practice

Queens University of Charlotte - Men's soccer volunteers to help the homeless

Queens University of Charlotte - Men's soccer volunteers to help the homeless

Street Soccer NYC Game

Street Soccer New York City continues its league play this Friday night at Chelsea Piers, located at 23rd Street and the Hudson River. The team has had a very competitive season so far, falling last game 10-9. Please come out and support the team this Friday.

Home: DCF United
Away: Street Soccer USA

Date: 2/11/2011
Time: 9:00 PM

First lady michele obama speaks to us at the national mentoring summit. ' more kids are growing up outside tight knit neighborhoods, more in single parent homes . . . Mentoring is more need than ever before . . . Kids need a friends and someone they

Library of congress national mentoring summit

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SSNYC shows pride in opener

Above, ssnyc's marcus shakes the referees hand as teammate julio prepares for the opening kick. It was a fresh set of faces for this year's ssnyc team at their first match in the chelsea piers 5 a side league. Most players had trained all fall without an external competition so it was a special day and the group was nervous. I wanted them to do well so badly I too had sweet palms.

13 players attended including several a whorecently moved out. For marcus, luke, joe, tk, charles, and angelo this meant an several ours on the subway and bus system for a few minutes on the pitch.

The 11-1 score against our favor does not portray the hustle, teamwork, st at times expressive and stylish combination play. Congrats to all. More anecdotes from the evening to come . . .

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Office: 212-400-7044 Fax: 212-400-7005 Mobile: 646-385-1714

SSNYC Speaks at Ramapo

Yesterday, Street Soccer NYC went to Ramapo College of New Jersey to participate in their hunger and homelessness panel. Ramapo’s Community Service Center has been staging events all week to recognize National Hunger and Homelessness Week. The panel was organized and facilitated by Sarah Cipolli. The day started off with SSNYC players Marcus, Anthony, Donnie and Charlie going with SSNYC Director and Ramapo alumni, Will Mazzuto out to the Mahwah, NJ campus. The panel discussion was held in the Ramapo College Alumni Lounge with 150 students attending including the college’s Men’s Soccer team and Field Hockey team.

The members of SSNYC talked about their life experiences and what it is like to be homeless today in America, as well as what SSUSA means to them. They spoke about the issues they have to deal with on a daily basis and what the Ramapo students can do to help the homeless community in America. They expressed how community and being part of a team has given them direction and brought them some comfort in the tough times they are going through.

Ramapo College Field Hockey Coach Concetta Valerio said of the panel, “The event really opened the eyes of the students and faculty here at Ramapo. The members of SSNYC were such dynamic individual’s who have experienced so much. They told us so many things about their lives and shared a lot of personal stories with us. They showed us homeless people aren’t what we typically see on TV. It was a pleasure to have them here at Ramapo and we look forward to working with Street Soccer more in the future.”

Thank you to Sarah and the whole Ramapo community for giving our players the amazing platform to express themselves!

SSNYC and Ramapo's Community Service Center

Listen to SSUSA International Ambassador Emmerson Boyce on SKY's SoccerAM Show

SSUSA International Ambassador Emmerson Boyce was on SKY's SoccerAM show on Saturday, November 6th. The link above is a clip from the interview.

Emmerson was invited to discuss how he was able to control the newly valued £50million left winger Gareth Bale as Wigan beat Tottenham 1-0. It's a fun interview and Emmerson, humble as ever, wouldn't even joke with the hosts about being better than Maicon, prefering to simply say : "I was just doing my job."

Support Emmerson, Support Wigan! He believes in SSUSA and he is a joy to watch play. Have a watch and have a good week!

LA TImes features Street Soccer USA at Jovenes Inc.

Johny Figueroa who played in 2008 now coaches

Check out this link to a photo and the article in Sat. LA Times. Congrats Jovenese, Alex, and Johnny!

Street Soccer USA Global Finalist at Beyond Sport Awards:

Chaired by Tony Blair and founded by Nick Keller, Beyond Sport hosts a global summit each year dedicated to exploring and bolstering the role of sport in social change. As the business of sport has developed enormously over recent decades, it is only now that we are beginning to realize the potential for sport as development tool for addressing the world's problems.

Street Soccer USA was featured among shortlisted project worldwide for the Beyond Sport Awards at the second annual Beyond Sport Summit in Chicago. Mayor Daley opened the summit and Olympian Michael Johnson, who actually visited our New York Street Soccer project in the Spring and kicked the ball around with our athletes, was on hand along with many other Beyond Sport Ambassadors, which included Senator Bill Bradley, Prince Feisal Al Hussein of Jordan, Scott Blackmun, CEO of the US Olympic Committee, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, New Orlean Saints Owner Rita Benson Leblanc, NBA star Dikembe Mutombo, US Women's soccer great Julie Foudy, and many others.

The Summit allowed our organization to dialogue with other practitioners and academics from all over the world as well as corporate leaders and sports institutions interested in playing a role in using sport for social change.

Our inclusion in the summit as a highlighted project reflects on the efforts of all our passionate project leads and partner organizations throughout the United States and bodes well for the expansion of our role in combating homeless and poverty though the vehicle of sport. Please visit the Beyond Sport website www.beyondsport,org website and follow the progress of this organization as it opens it US branch and US specific summit next year in Denver Colorado.

Many thanks to volunteer, players, and supporters of Street Soccer USA, and a special thank you as well to the Beyond Sport Staff for incredible platform they have build for the work we are so passionately engaged in.

 

Lady Salamanders Featured at Nike Photo Exhibit

Time Magazine's photography division got a group together to shoot sport for development photos. See the selection of Lady Salamanders Lisa and Jasmine below. This photo was taken at the exhibit in Rio.

USA finishes 20th and 11th,Brazil Wins Homeless World Cup--Women and Men,

Jaime of San Fran shoots on net in win over Luxembourg

Lady Salamanders celebrate win over India

Teams Enter Trophy Rounds

The Lady Salamanders beat India and the Men's team beat Luxembourg. After the US dropped it's first game to Scotland, it was eliminated from the top prize competition. Tomorrow it squares off against Austria in the semi finals of the Dignity Cup.

The Lady Sals will play India again in their final match.

ESPN Features Lady Salamanders

http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/news/_/id/5584508/women-paving-way-homeless-world-cup

Check out this article in ESPN highlighting the Lady Salamanders!

US fells Italy, contends for title

USA staid in contentionf or the Homeless World Cup with a victory of Itlay in Penalties. After that they took a lead at halftime against undefeated Poland, and came the closet of any team yet to defeat them. "We had them on the ropes," said Coach Acuna, "It was our game to win and that shows we can compete with anyone."

The Lady Salamanders lost on penalties to Uganda in a game where the US team showed their superiority, but failed to finish off the game. They face Norway today in a rematch of the first round.

Lady Salamanders Round 2 competition

The Lady Sals play Uganda at 1:20 today. The rest of their group include:

USA
Uganda
India
Norway

Looking for victory number 2! Watch Leslie and Lisa secure the team's first victory yesterday in penalties:

Round 2 Group for Mens Team

USA will face Italy first and then Poland today. We will also get a chance to knock off our friends from Russia in Round 2 action. Top 2 teams in the group make the quarterfinals of HWC 2010.

Italy
USA
Russia
Scotland
Ireland
Poland

see other groups at www.homelessworldcup.org

Scotland were champs in 2007 and Russia 2006 and Italy 2004 and 2005.

5-3 Bafana Bafana wins

US still qualifies despite the loss for the top group in the Homeless World Cup. Second round draw later tonight.
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Halftime 3-3

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Usa vs South Africa

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USA shuts out Slovenia 7-0

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US 5 Slovenia 0 at half

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Historic Win for Lady Salamander

Hero goalkeeper Leslie saves the day and also powered behind 6 Lisa Wrightman goals the Lady Salamanders beat undefeated Norway for historic first victory!
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