(Editor's note: the following is a news release from the Akron Inner City Soccer Club.)
Akron Inner City Soccer Club has received a $10,000 grant from Akron Community Foundation, which will support thr group's fifht annual free soccer camps in Akron, to take place for five weeks during the 2012 summer.
The group also announces that more than 800 young people and their parents, representing 27 teams, participated in 41 games in Akron Inner City Soccer Club’s Second Annual Akron Unity Soccer Tournament in August at the Copley Road Complex in Akron. Teams travelled as far away as Willard, Ashland, Parma and Cleveland to experience soccer in a tournament atmosphere.
Inner City Soccer Club’s inaugural year tournament hosted 350 players and their families, representing 12 teams for 18 games. The tournament was made possible through the support of volunteers, sponsors, teams and the city of Akron Park and Recreation Department’s Director Rick Merolla, who made the soccer fields available.
Akron Inner City Soccer Club is a nonprofit organization founded in the fall of 1999. The program is a youth development/after school soccer program for boys and girls, ages 5 through 14. For information, visit www.inner-citysoccer.org, e-mail or call Dele Olabisi at (330) 524-3776.
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