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By Aaron Schulze

Melfort Soccer Startup

Melfort soccer aims for a summer kick off

Dec 11, 2020 | 5:03 PM

Players in the Melfort Youth Soccer Association haven’t hit the pitch as organized teams in nearly a year, and they must wait a while longer.

Following November’s COVID-19 related restrictions, Melfort Soccer decided to plan for its outdoor summer program instead of running its indoor winter session in 2021.

The indoor program in 2020 finished prior to the first case of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan. The following outdoor and indoor programs for players U5 to U19 were then scrapped.

“We had worked on it with hopes to start something,” Melfort Soccer President Gerry Miller said. “But with the latest restrictions put in place we decided it didn’t make sense, being that we have a smaller participation level in winter. It’d take a lot of effort for the smaller group we would have had.”

Melfort Soccer hopes to have its registration in March before running an outdoor summer program in May and June. Miller said if restrictions are lifted in time, an indoor program is possible, albeit unlikely.

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“We’re using a shared facility at the Kerry Vickar Centre and there are a lot of other programs vying for the same space,” he said. “If it happens, we’ll definitely be able to do it. But at the way things are going, I would say it’s unlikely.”

Miller said Melfort Soccer has enough interest and financial resources to offer their programs again once they’re able to do so. He hopes to get more children out for the soccer season to grow the game in Melfort again.

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