Pick-Up Soccer Tomorrow at Heart Lake Secondary

We’ve got our first pick-up soccer game of the year coming up tomorrow at Heart Lake Secondary School in Brampton. Come down at 8pm and play 90 minutes of pick-up soccer for only $12. No hassle, no commitment and the best playing surface in Brampton. All pick-up games take place at Heart Lake Secondary School, 296 Conestoga Drive in Brampton.

We’ll be running regular pick-up and drop-in sessions throughout the spring and summer and you can find registration and sign-up for the upcoming sessions at the footy sevens pick-up soccer site:

Adult Soccer Leagues Kick-Off Next Week

Its getting closer and we can’t wait until our men’s and coed leagues kick-off next Tuesday and Thursday. We have coed on Tuesdays and a men’s Tuesday league and men’s Thursday league. All the leagues are 7 vs 7, fully refereed and played on dedicated outdoor 7vs7 soccer fields. We still have room for a few more teams, or you can sign-up just yourself or a small group of friends and be placed on a team. At just $750 for a whole team, or $85 to register as an individual you won’t find better value.

Find full details of all of our upcoming spring leagues on the Footy Sevens website.

Registration Evening – Tuesday 24th April from 6.30-8.00pm

We always try to make it nice and easy to register online for our adult soccer leagues or Footy For All kids soccer program. However, some people prefer to register in person or would like to pay cash. If you would like to pay cash or register in person pop by tomorrow’s registration evening and Andrew and Ryan will be available to take registrations and answer any questions you may have about our Adult League Programs, Kids Soccer Programs, Pick-Up Soccer or Field Rentals.

• Where: School Cafeteria, Heart Lake Secondary School, 296 Conestoga Drive, Brampton
• When: 6.30-8pm on Tuesday April 24th

If you have any question on any of these activities, e-mail us at admin@footysevens.com.

 

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Registration Evening for Spring Adult and Kids Soccer

Toronto Footy Sevens is hosting a registration night for our upcoming coed, women’s and men’s leagues at the new field at Heart Lake Secondary School as well as our Footy For All children’s soccer programs for ages 4-11. Although online registration is always available, some players and parents had asked about paying cash or registering in person and we will be hosting a registration evening on April 4th. Drop by any time between 7pm and 9pm and we’ll be available to answer questions, take cash or credit card registrations and provide you with any details you may need about the upcoming season.

Whether it is our adult rec soccer leagues, Footy For All kids soccer programs or renting the field, Ryan, Andrew and Chris will be available to answer any of your questions.

• Where: Room 129, Heart Lake Secondary School, 296 Conestoga Drive, Brampton
• When: 7-9pm on Wednesday April 4th.

About our adult soccer leagues:

Our spring soccer leagues kick off in the first week of May and run through until the end of June. You can register a whole team for $750 or as an individual for only $85 for any of the 9-week leagues. All of the leagues are 7 vs 7, fully refereed and played on the brand new turf fields at Heart Lake Secondary School. We will also have a summer season in July and August and a fall season in September and October.

About our kids soccer programs:

Our spring program is designed to give 4-11 year-old kids a fun soccer experience with our great team of coaches and volunteers. For parents it offers a simple, convenient youth soccer option at a great price.

Our coaches will be working on skill development and refining technique for part of the session. However, our main focus is that the boys and girls in the program have fun and enjoy their soccer. No try-outs or kids left on the bench while the star players get all the playing time. We’ll treat all our players the same with a supportive environment and equal opportunity for all.

Spring 2018 will be our 2nd season of Footy For All programming at the new facility. We will also be offering a summer season in July and August and a fall season in September and October.

Worst Dive Ever? Spare a thought for the ref!

BBC Sport highlighted this incredible dive during a Chilean Primera Division game, and it really is something to see. We can’t think of ever having seen many more blatant or ridiculous dives than this.

That being said, when you see it from the other angle (about 0:50 on the clip), you can see why the referee could have been taken in by it. From the angle the ref would have been looking at it, the movement of the defenders leg behind the diving forward could easily have been mistaken for a foul, especially at full speed without the benefit of multiple angles and slow motion.

It just shows how tough a job referees have. So the next time you are playing and can’t believe that a ref missed or called something that was really clear to you . . . cut them some slack, it may look completely different from their angle!

Fortunately we’ve never seen dives like that in our leagues, and if you want to join us for men’s, women’s and coed spring 7vs7 soccer in Brampton, you can register a team for only $750 or individually for $85 at toronto.footysevens.com.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/43472827

Need a spring soccer team to join? Leave it to us!

Are you an individual soccer player looking for a 7vs7 team?

Have you ever been unable to join a league because you can’t find enough players to form a full team and end up missing out?

We’ve always got a place indies at Toronto Footy Sevens. We reserve at least one team space exclusively for individual players in ALL of our leagues. We’ll match up individual registrants and small groups of players to form a full team and even provide them with a set of umbro or adidas jerseys so that they look a feel like a team right from the start.

We’ve got coed, women’s and men’s spring soccer leagues starting up at the beginning of May and individual registration is $85 each.

How does it work? . . . it’s easy and hassle free.

1. Go to http://toronto.footysevens.com/upcomingLeagues
2. Choose which league is ideal for you. (Click on the details button for kickoff times, location, start and finish dates and all the other info you need)
3. Click to register as an individual, fill in your details and pay online.
4. Once you’ve registered, we’ll put you on one of our individual teams, take care of all the admin and everything you need.
5. You just need to show up on the first day of the league, collect your team shirt, meet your teammates and play.

And if you have another player or a group of friends you want to play on the same team as, just let us know when you register and we’ll make sure you are all on the same team.

Sound good to you?

See you out there on the field!

And don’t forget, all of our games are on brand new, purpose built 7vs7 turf soccer fields at Heart Lake Secondary School in Brampton. Full details at:

toronto.footysevens.com

Spring Kids Soccer – 3 days left to save 25%

Wow! We’ve had a fantastic response to our Footy For All kids soccer programs with over 50 little soccer players registered over the past 2 weeks. And it’s great to see so many faces from the fall 2017 program back for another season of footy. Our 25% early bird discount was due to end tonight, but we are extending it until the end of the week to give everyone the chance to take advantage.

All Footy For All spring soccer programs are only $75 if you register before March 2nd!

We like to keep things simple and stress free for both kids and parents, with the emphasis on fun and learning for the players. For the parents it’s a quick and easy online sign-up and an easy commitment to an hour at the same-time same-place every week! We tried to mix the days and times available for each age group to give you a choice of days and times and to have different age-groups available at the same time so that families with children in multiple age-groups only have to make one trip to one location.

Each 8-week program will offer a fun and dynamic recreational soccer program for kids without tryouts or time spent on the bench. There will be skills and drills to start off with each week, followed by getting onto the field to play in small-sided games against the other kids in the program.

All of this will take place at Brampton’s finest new soccer facility, the new FIFA-grade turf field at Heart Lake Secondary School on Conestoga Drive.

Full information and sign-up can be found on the Footy For All website or you can e-mail us at admin@footyforall.com if you have any questions you would like to have answered.

Images of soccer around the world

This article from the BBC contains some wonderful images of football/futbol/soccer from around the world. Its an interesting idea to try to gather pictures from soccer from every country in the world, all shot on the same basic camera. There’s definitely some pictures that tug at the heart strings of anyone who loves their soccer and remind us of how lucky we are to have the facilities we have here in the GTA.

Read the Original Article: “These stunning disposable camera photos show football’s impact around the world“

Brampton’s Spring Soccer League Line-Up

Toronto Footy Sevens is delighted to announce our league line-up for Spring 2018. We’ll have 7-vs-7 Men’s, Women’s and Co-Ed soccer leagues available at the new 7-a-side fields at Heart Lake Secondary School on Conestoga Drive in Brampton. Our inaugural season launched last September upon completion of the new field and we’ll be expanding to 5 leagues for our first ever spring season.

Only $750 per team

Each league will be be fully refereed, played on purpose-built, properly lined 7-vs-7 fields with divider nets and FIFA quality turf and will cost only $750+tax per team. The leagues last for 9 weeks beginning the first week of May 2018 and games will kick off at 7pm, 8pm or 9pm each week.

Five great leagues to choose from

• Tuesday Men’s League
• Tuesday Coed league
• Wednesday Men’s League
• Wednesday Women’s League
• Thursday Men’s League

Secure your space now with a $250 deposit!

Individual Players

Don’t worry if you don’t have full team, we also have space for individuals and small groups of players with individual registration available for all leagues. Spaces are $85.00+tax and include an Umbro Clima-lite jersey. 

All you have to do is sign-up, let us know if there is anyone else signing up with you that you want to play with, and we’ll place you and your friends together with other individuals to form a team.

Registration

Whether you are registering a whole team or just as an individual, registration couldn’t be simpler and can be completed online at the Toronto Footy Sevens Website. If you’d like to pay cash, please drop us an email and we can make the appropriate arrangements.

We will also be hosting a live registration at Heart Lake Secondary school in March for youth and adult registration. We’ll post the date on our website nearer to the time.

Kids Programs and Field Rentals

Don’t forget we have a wide range of kids soccer programs at the Heart Lake Secondary School field as well as times when the field is available for rental for clubs and organisations.

If you have any questions about any of our adult leagues, kids programs or field rentals, e-mail us at admin@footysevens.com.

19-19 in a shoot out is crazy. How it was won is even crazier . . . — ottawafootyblog

Bangkok Sports Club and Satri Angthong were tied at 19-19 in sudden death penalties. That’s pretty amazing as it is, but you will NEVER see a winning goal like this one, courtesy of the BBC. The poor goalie becomes the living embodiment of “don’t count your chickens until they’ve hatched” Nothing against goalies but . […]

via 19-19 in a shoot out is crazy. How it was won is even crazier . . .  — ottawafootyblog

One Week Until the Kicking Cancer’s Butt Charity Soccer Tournament

Saturday September 23rd. 12 Noon to 5pm

Heart Lake Secondary School, Conestoga Drive, Brampton

7vs7 Coed & Men’s Soccer Tournament

One week to go until the first Kicking Cancer’s Butt Charity Soccer Tournament. All of the money raised will fund essential cancer treatment and research in the city and EVERY PENNY OF EVERY TEAM FEE OR DONATION GOES STRAIGHT TO THE WILLIAM OSLER HS FOUNDATION. We’ve pledged to outfit an entire room in the oncology wing by raising at least $25,000 over the next 5 years and you can play a big part in that just by playing soccer!

The tournament is a one day 7-a-side coed soccer tournament and will take place outdoors at the brand new 7-a-side fields at Heart Lake Secondary School in Brampton. What better way could there be to bring your summer soccer season to a close and get a chance to try out the new facility?

TOURNAMENT FORMAT

Each 7-a-side team will play a minimum of 3 games during their round robin section. The top two from each 4 team section will go through to the playoffs and from then on it’s knockout format until we crown a champion.

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

• Saturday 23rd September 12.00pm-3.30pm: round robin group stages: all teams will play a minimum of 3 x 30 minute games.
• Saturday 23rd September 3.30pm-5.30pm: playoffs, single elimination knock-out format to crown Brampton’s first Kicking Cancer’s Butt champion.

TEAM REGISTRATION

Team Registration is now open for both MEN’S and COED teams.

Teams register for the tournament by clicking here to go to the tournament page on the Toronto Footy Sevens Website. Click on the “Register a Team” link, fill in your details and your team’s name and we will send you details of how to make your online donation to the William Osler HS Foundation by e-mail within 24 hours of you registering your team.

INDIVIDUAL REGISTRATION

The tournament isn’t just for teams: individuals don’t need to miss out just because they don’t have a full team to register. Individual registration is also open. Register for the tournament at the Footy Sevens tournament page and click to register as an individual. Just like the team registrations, we’ll send you details of how to make your donation to the William Osler HS foundation.

Questions? Email chris@footysevens.com to find out more.

Crossing the Finish Line: Construction Blog #7

We got there!

It seems appropriate that the finish line for the track was pretty much the last part of the project to be completed. After months of construction, the field and track are now complete and have started to be used by the students at Heart Lake Secondary School, our Footy Sevens Soccer Leagues, our Footy For All Kids soccer programs and various rental groups.

The team from Tracktech International had flown in to paint the lanes and lines on the track. We had no idea how much went into that part of the job. It took three days and we’re definitely in good hands: it was the same team that lined the Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium in Beijing!

We’ve been very lucky all round with all of the contractors and experts working on the field, and we are absolutely blown away by the quality of the field, the track, the lighting and the other parts of the field. The initial feedback from players, parents and kids has been fantastic and we are delighted to finally see soccer being played on the field.

What’s coming up on the field?

As we posted yesterday, we had our first Footy For All kids programming on there on Tuesday, and last night our first ever league games kicked off (see the photos below). Late registration is still available for both adults and kids and rental times are also available. And don’t forget our Kicking Cancer’s Butt Charity tournament that’s coming up on Saturday 23rd of September.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the planning, construction and completion of the project in any way, and we look forward to working together with Heart Lake Secondary School and the Peel District School Board at the field for many years to come.