Minnesota GLBT Soccer

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Here are some photographs from one of the last league games that the Pineapples played.

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Several players decided that they would like to play on Saturday this week in addition to Monday and Wednesday nights. Since league play does not begin until mid-September, having a Saturday practice will be fun and still give us a time to meet on the weekend. From now through September 15, we will be meeting on Saturdays at 1:00 PM at Bryn Mawr Meadows in Minneapolis. There are three soccer fields at Bryn Mawr Meadows. We plan to use the soccer fields closest to the parking lot.

New players are welcome to join us, and we hope that returning players take advantage of the additional practice time. As always, shin guards and soccer cleats are recommended but not required. Please bring a dark shirt and a white shirt so that if we scrimmage we can create visually distinct teams.

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We will be holding Monday Night GLBT Soccer (August 20) and Wednesday Night GLBT Soccer (August 22) this week.

Practice is at 7:00 PM at Texa-Tonk Park in St. Louis Park.

New players are very welcome to join us. Cleats and shin guards are recommended but not required.

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It's time to start thinking about fall leagues and getting a sense of numbers interested in different options. Below is a list of league play options.

Minneapolis Park and Rec Soccer League - Neiman FieldSept 4th - Oct 29th (9 weeks) Thursday 11 v 11 (co-ed)

City Sports Connection - Starts Oct 7 www.cscsports.com Sunday 7 v 7 (co-ed)

Soccer Blast - Burnsville Sept 4th - 7 games
Sunday outdoor 8 v 8
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday (separate leagues) indoor 6 v 6
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, or Sunday (separate leagues) outdoor 8 v 8
Outdoor games are 6:30 or 7:30 lasting one hour Indoor games start at 8:30 and last one hour Weekend games are throughout the day

Corner Kick - Maplewood Sept 8 - Oct 15thThursdays or Fridays 6pm - 11pm

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As many of you know, in addition to our Monday and Wednesday night practices/scrimmages, we put together two teams that played in two different leagues this summer. Our Co-ed team the Pineapples played on Saturday afternoons and our men's team the Flamingos played on Tuesday evenings.

The Flamingos tied our final game.Flamingos players that played in our last game are pictured above.

We invite everyone who has played with us ever, or who wishes to play with us in the future to come to a meeting regarding the near future of our group. This meeting will be taking place on Saturday, August 11 at 3:00 PM at Camp Bar which is located at 490 N Robert Street in downtown St. Paul.

We welcome players of all genders and sexual orientations to play with us.

Please bring any information about the leagues that you would be interested in joining. This discussion can be narrowly focused, looking at specific things like "What leagues should we participate in for the late summer and/or fall,?" but discussion can also take place on a wider scope regarding longer term goals that we may have for our organization. The only thing that has been decided so far is that our next team to be created will be sponsored by Camp Bar and will be called Orange Crush. Do you have thoughts about fund raisers, improving team play, traveling to an international GLBT Soccer tournament, recruiting new players or any other topic related to the group? Come make your thoughts known.

If you are not able to make it to the meeting, please feel free to write down your thoughts and email them to mnglbtsoccer@gmail.com and we will see to it that your email is read to the assembled group.

After the meeting stick around and socialize with your fellow players, we are fun on and off the field.

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On Saturday, August 4, 2007 at 12:30 PM, our co-ed team, the Pineapples will gather at Holy Angels School, (South Field) to take on Pagliacci. Our game starts at 1:00 PM in the City Sports Connection co-ed 7v7 12 match league. Players should bring an orange shirt, a white shirt, and shin guards. Soccer cleats are recommended and bottled water helps keep dehydration at bay.

This will be the Pineapples final game in this league. We would really enjoy seeing as many players as possible for our send off, so even if you have not been able to make it to the games for several weeks, we hope you will be able to play with us this week.

After the game, we will be coordinating a visit to Camp for celebratory drinks.

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