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Are you living your dreams? When parents are expecting a child, they have dreams for their unborn baby. They dream of a super athlete, a great scholar, and a popular child who will grow up healthy and happy. They dream of dates, high school graduation, college, marriage and grandchildren. When their child is born, they incorporate their childs dreams into their own. So dreams change as their child grows. Sometimes dreams disappear when they lose their child. Their dreams are gone forever. When a child with special needs is born to parents, their dreams die also. Dreams are replaced with the reality that their child will have to struggle with health, school and acceptance. With such challenges, these parents can create new dreams. TOPSoccer is part of that dream. TOPSoccer, The Outreach Program for Soccer, is a community-based soccer program for young athletes with physical and mental disabilities athlete that provides a safe and fun environment for their child to participate in organized sports. These athletes compete with athletes of similar abilities. Any youth player between the ages of 4-19 years old having a physical or mental disability that limits their ability to perform at the level of play they have chosen to participate is eligible for the program. Emphasis of this program is on development, training, and providing meaningful participation rather than on competition. TOPSoccer's goal is to enable the thousands of young athletes with disabilities to become valued and successful members of CYSA-South. The TOPSoccer program has been available to these athletes in Junior United Soccer Association since 1992. Programs have been started in the city of Orange, Long Beach, Carlsbad and Yucaipa. But the need for more programs remains. There are many athletes with special needs that need a place to play. And they need teams to compete against. A successful TOPSOCCER program has the following: * Placement of players by ability not age * Highlight players' ability rather than their disability * Make players have a meaningful experience, not just a token player * Make players achieve desired goals without assistance * and FUN! FUN! FUN! Come be a part of our dream. The dream where every child who wants to play can compete at his/her own level with players of similar abilities. You can make dreams come true!!! Contact the CYSA-S TOPSoccer Chairperson to learn how you can make a difference. Our staff at Juventus FC Club Soccer is proud to announce our partnership with the TOP Soccer program and to be a new supporter and part of this wonderful dream for these children this coming year. Additional information can be obtained by visiting the USYSA TOPSoccer site where you can find informative resources such as Parent's Guide and Grant application to start a program in your league. For further information please contact Sandy Castillo at sandjules@cs.com or (714) 524-3354 or Hector Bombino at hectorb@pumpengineering.net or (562) 631-0545. You can read the online version here--> http://usyouthsoccer.org/downloads/topsoccer/topsoccerbrochure.pdf |
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