Feb 08 through April 08 (10 weeks) the SoccerPlus Education Center started the Club Outreach Program with players and coaches from the FSASoccerPlus Football Club into Hartford’s Fox Elementary School. The program provides a snack and positive message to the the students and then the Club Players and Coaches taught soccer skills and played with the students after school from 3:30 to 5:00 pm each Tues (girls) and Wed (boys). The program finished with a field trip to the first Reds Home game on May 9th.

Letter from Fox Elementary Principle Michael D. Lorenzo (May 5, 2008):
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you and your staff for providing my students with such an outstanding opportunity through your SOCCERPLUS CAMPS program. As you know, we had in excess of 60 boy and girls participate in this wonderful skills training program and quite honestly could have had five times that number become involved if you had the time and staff to accommodate us. Your staff and the students they brought with them did an extraordinary job of teaching and coaching our students, many of whom have not been exposed to this form of soccer instruction. Because we are a school that has 100% of our students below the national poverty level this was an experience that they will most likely never have an opportunity to enjoy under normal circumstances.

I sincerely hope that you will continue this program next year and years to come. I already have a list of students that have “signed up” in anticipation of the opportunity. My students thank you, their parents thank you, our staff thanks you and I thank you for your kindness and generosity.

Best Regards,
Michael D. Lorenzo
Principal
Dr. Michael D. Fox Elementary School
Hartford, CT

View the photos from the Fox School Outreach Program in 2008