{"id":502,"date":"2008-05-14T08:56:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T13:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/14\/crew-clinic\/"},"modified":"2008-05-14T08:56:42","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T13:56:42","slug":"crew-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/14\/crew-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Crew Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every Spring the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/columbus.crew.mlsnet.com\/t102\/\">Columbus Crew<\/a> does this really cool thing with our soccer program.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure when it started but I know my boys have been going for the last 4 or 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway they invite all the players (even the Soccer Tots- Cole&#8217;s group) down to have a &#8220;clinic&#8221; at the stadium.\u00a0 They break into groups (by age) and each group gets two Crew players to run drills with them out on the field.\u00a0 After each drill they rotate to 2 more players until they go through all of them (I think there were 6 different stations).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2145\/2492371448_81351b0b66.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Blake with his group, listening to these guys<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2162\/2491558273_63ab5694b9.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They said their station was the best- Sharks and Minnows<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3219\/2492380222_84d194eea5.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Funny how even pro players still love Sharks and Minnows.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3230\/2491537503_bf96e8b5a3.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cole with his group.\u00a0 Andrew Peterson was one of the Crew players for his group.\u00a0 He was very nice to Cole, who wasn&#8217;t feeling 100%<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2150\/2492385684_2200f3707f.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Frankie is the captain of the Crew, all the young girls love him because of his hair.<\/p>\n<p>After the drills, they get t-shirts and autographs of the players<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2065\/2491455529_fe16f2d8ba.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Will Hesmer the Goalie<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2267\/2492289684_0af75a4d1b.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Frankie<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3246\/2491477213_b36a826c8a.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alejandro Moreno signing Blake&#8217;s jersey<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3191\/2492300746_4126aefcc1.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brian Carroll<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3228\/2490319159_f43ece81ea.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Blake, Ted, Austin, Cole (wearing my shirt!), Nate, MaryBeth, and Meghan<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3053\/2491129440_8d36635f1e.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t forget the CrewCat<\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3137\/2491141996_5ebbb0581d.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cole passed out in a chair the moment we got home, when I went to pick him up he was burning up.\u00a0 Always picks when Andy is out of town to get sick on me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Spring the Columbus Crew does this really cool thing with our soccer program.\u00a0 I&#8217;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&#8217;s group) down to have a &#8220;clinic&#8221; at the stadium.\u00a0 They break into groups (by age) and each group gets two Crew players to run drills with them out on the field.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Andrew Peterson was one of the Crew players for his group.\u00a0 He was very nice to Cole, who wasn&#8217;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&#8217;s jersey Brian Carroll Blake, Ted, Austin, Cole (wearing my shirt!), Nate, MaryBeth, and Meghan Can&#8217;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.\u00a0 Always picks when Andy is out of town to get sick on me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elisalou"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}