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Seaway Valley Soccer Club Participates in Atlético

Ottawa Club Day

By Victoria Klassen during the game—retrieving balls out on the very pitch that the players participated in drills with the players
when they were kicked out of play would be playing on, was a highlight before signing autographs and
s part of Seaway Valley Soccer and tossing balls to players so they for the younger players. As for our posing for photos.
AClub’s new partnership this could resume play. older group of players, some of them The next event Seaway Valley has
season as a Powered by Atlético “This will be one of the were able to play a short exhibition planned with Atlético is a summer
Ottawa Club, they took part in the highlights of the season for some camp being run by Atlético Ottawa on
game against a club from Gatineau on
Atlético Ottawa Club Day. The Club of these players, so it made all the the Seaway Valley field in Cornwall.
the TD Place pitch. Those boys and
Day took place during Atlético’s organization of this event worth Coaches from Atletico Madrid will
girls enjoyed playing on the soccer
home game on Saturday, June 17, every minute. For some, it was the attend to help run the week-long
pitch that a few hours after would
when they hosted Vancouver FC in first professional soccer match they camp. This will be the first time a
see a professional soccer match being
their regular season match-up at TD got to watch in person. The players soccer camp of this magnitude will
Place. loved every minute of the event and contested on,” said Flipsen. be run in Cornwall. The Seaway
In the spring, a few Atlético Ottawa
Seaway Valley had twenty-two were thrilled with the autographs and Valley Soccer Club looks forward to
players participate as player mascots pictures they got with the players players attended one of Seaway continuing to build on activities like
who stood in front of the players after the 1-0 win for Ottawa over Valley’s development sessions and these for its club members.
during the national anthem. Twenty Vancouver,” said Bradley Flipsen,
other players, in the U9-U13 age with the Seaway Valley Soccer Club.
range, participated as flag bearers in Seaway Valley looks forward to
the opening ceremonies of the game. making this an annual event.
Some of the older Seaway Valley “From the moment the players
players, U14-U16, were ball kids arrived and saw the pitch, to walking

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