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Rexdale U-14
Boys defy the odds
In spite of its obstacle, Rexdale U-14 Boys
(96ers) won the two major trophies in the
Toronto District Youth Soccer League (TDYSL).
With the league title in one hand the 96ers
clinched the double after beating Rexdale
Royal York Lions 1-0 on a goal scored by
Dominique Modeste for the TSA Cup.
Though the objective is to recognize Rexdale
Rebels 96ers’ on their accomplishment, it is
a little strange that heading into the 2010
season, the team was deregistered from the
ranks of competitive or Rep to the Club’s
House League as non competitive. .
This seems to have come as a result of a
dispute between the Rexdale 96ERS and the
Rexdale Soccer Club Executive. So while the
96ERS may have won the battle of the soccer
season of 2010, it may well lose a senseless
war with its Rexdale Soccer Club Executive
in 2011.
Some situations are usually interpreted as
personal, so that others can drop the ball
and move on with other business at hand. But
when the welfare of kids is involved, one
should ask one selves how are these kids
going to deal with the challenges of life
when the adults cannot.
This may not have been the case with the
Rexdale U-14 Boys, since it is obvious that
the parents fought with their coaches to
obtain reinstatement when they could have
easily look at the coach’s predicament with
the Club’s Executive as personal and cease
to exist.
But unless there is a new Executive or new
thinking at the Rexdale Soccer Club for
2011, the present climate will continue to
be wintry at best, even after their Annual
General Meeting on November 9, 2010.
I am hopeful that whatever the outcome of
this ugly situation, the parents of the
players of the Rexdale Rebels 96ers’ keep
their kids together to allow them to at
least enjoy the rewards of a hard fought
season and continue to participate in a
sport in which they have had success
Too often kids lose interest in sports, and
its difficult to re-interest them in it if
the parents choose to move their child to
another club or decides that they've had
enough of the sport, because of what can
only be deemed unfortunate circumstances
that had nothing really to do with the
players.
There is no doubt in my mind that if the
parents of the Rexdale U-14 Boys were not
supportive of the manager and coach from the
onset in their dispute with the Executive,
the 96ers would be history. Their support to
overcome the deregistering of the team was
pivotal to the 96ers successful season.
Rexdale U-14 Boys comprises of visible
minorities and even if a coach and an
Executive were having problems, why make
decisions that affect the players? Why was
the entire team re-registered?.
Having tons of experiences on both side of
the spectrum, and listening to the
situation, the deregistering of the team was
only part of the problem. The fact that the
96ers had to remove their team officials put
it in perspective.
The
situation escalated when an appeal was sent
to the Toronto Soccer Association, and as
part of the resolution it was requested that
the Central Region League Management
appeal Committee (CRLMC) reinstated the
team into the CSL as an additional (9th)
team.
In spite of
the parents support, it appears like the
Coaching Application for Coach Hayden
“Shaka” Brown and the team manager were
revoked. Councillors Rob Ford and Suzan Hall
and MP Dr. Kirsty Duncan’s office got
involved and the U-14 Boys was reinstated as
a Rep team.
In the interim, the Toronto Soccer
Association (TSA) assumed temporary
stewardship over the Rexdale 96ERS team for
the 2010 TDYSL outdoor soccer season in
which Rexdale 96ERS rose to the occasion and
won.
The
TSA stewardship expiration clause coincides
with Rexdale SC’s November 9th, 2010 AGM
which in effect means that the matter will
resurface as part of the AGM Agenda and
minutes.
But after
all is said and done, the Rexdale 96ERS has
been reinstated in the CSL for the upcoming
2011 season. Congratulations Rexdale 96ers
on a season where you were the best and
prevailed over all the rest.
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