This years Arsenal Challenge features the U19 women's team Skjold Birkerød. The women will be traveling from Denmark to compete in the U19 Bracket against both our 92 and 93 Premier Girls teams. Please try to come out and show support for all the teams.

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This year the Region IV ODP Championship was held at the Reach 11 sports complex and included teams representing 13 states in the western region. Many fans and college coaches attended the regional championships and no doubt were impressed by the level of play.

Teams in the age brackets from U14 (1996) to U17(1993) played in the regional tournament on the weekend of January 17th - 20th with great weather and even better competition. Arizona was well represented and congratulations go to the 93 boys who finished second to CalSouth in a 1-0 championship game. The 93 team is coached by our own David Belfort and has 5 Arsenal players on the squad. Gilbert Arsenal players that competed on the team included Tanner Clay, Ryan Holt, Daniel Berzins, Bryan Suarez, and Joseph Clemente.  All players that compete on Drew Guarneri's Arsenal 93 Premier team.

The Gilbert Soccer Club 99 Premier, Select & Classic Girls put together a fantastic event with the help of girls from the 01 and 02 teams by donating stuffed animals to the Andreas Closet Fundraiser at Banner Desert and Gilbert Mercy Hospital. Forty girls, ages 8-11, gathered together to help bring happiness to children who are sick.

Andrea’s Closet began at St. Josephs Hospital and is named for Andrea Brunk, who was only 8 years old when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Unfortunately, Andrea’s cancer was aggressive and she died after 18 months of treatment, just days before her 10th birthday. But Traci still felt a tremendous love for her daughter, so she looked for a way to fill the void. She did it by doing the thing that she and Andrea had always loved to do, by shopping. Eventually, they had so many toys they didn’t know what to do. The Brunks approached the hospital with and idea to build a closet and fill it with toys so that every child could have a place to go to take away their fear. At Andrea’s Closet, our mission is to help children and their families cope with illness, but our vision is to deliver smiles, one toy at a time.

Soccer Fan

The momentum is building. Can you feel it?

Already, thousands of Americans like you have made a statement that the Game is in US. Our petition campaign has taken off, and we are well on our way to completing a compelling bid to bring the FIFA World Cup™ back to the USA.

But to really show FIFA that the US is a perfect candidate to host the tournament in 2018 or 2022, we need to take our movement from the thousands to the tens of thousands, then to the hundreds of thousands and millions!