Crew Clinic

Every Spring the Columbus Crew does this really cool thing with our soccer program.  I’m not sure when it started but I know my boys have been going for the last 4 or 5 years.

Apparently Worthington has the largest soccer program of all the Columbus area school so we are the only school system (that I know of) that gets to do this.

Anyway they invite all the players (even the Soccer Tots- Cole’s group) down to have a “clinic” at the stadium.  They break into groups (by age) and each group gets two Crew players to run drills with them out on the field.  After each drill they rotate to 2 more players until they go through all of them (I think there were 6 different stations).

Blake with his group, listening to these guys

They said their station was the best- Sharks and Minnows

Funny how even pro players still love Sharks and Minnows.

Cole with his group.  Andrew Peterson was one of the Crew players for his group.  He was very nice to Cole, who wasn’t feeling 100%

Frankie is the captain of the Crew, all the young girls love him because of his hair.

After the drills, they get t-shirts and autographs of the players

Will Hesmer the Goalie

Frankie

Alejandro Moreno signing Blake’s jersey

Brian Carroll

Blake, Ted, Austin, Cole (wearing my shirt!), Nate, MaryBeth, and Meghan

Can’t forget the CrewCat

And then my favorite shot of the night, after he got his jersey signed by the players Blake went out on the field to kick the ball and no doubt pretend he was a Crew player

Cole passed out in a chair the moment we got home, when I went to pick him up he was burning up.  Always picks when Andy is out of town to get sick on me!