Lincoln Futbol Club to host Route 66 Shootout tournament this
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[September 13, 2012]
On Friday, three years of hard work
by a small but dedicated group of individuals will finally pay off. The
Lincoln Futbol Club will host its first sanctioned tournament, the Route
66 Shootout, at the club's 27-acre complex behind Wal-Mart.
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Over 500 players on 36 different teams from all over central
Illinois will attend the three-day event. A total of 67 games will
be played. The event is expected to draw "a couple thousand
people" to Lincoln on Saturday and Sunday, according to coach Tim
Stuckey. "Local businesses will definitely notice the positive
financial impact first described by the Lincoln FC board to the city
council in 2009," he said.
In the fall of 2009, the newly formed Lincoln FC soccer club went
to the Lincoln City Council with a proposal to turn 27 acres of
city-owned land into a soccer complex. At the time, the city was
renting the field to a local farmer. At the city council meeting,
Dru Hauter, the Lincoln FC president, explained how turning the
field into a soccer complex would benefit the city by bringing in
revenue when games and tournaments were hosted.
The city council agreed, and a five-year lease began on March 1,
2010. The first year, club volunteers planted grass and laid out the
map of the future complex.
By the fall of 2011, all five of the Lincoln FC age-group teams
were practicing and hosting games at the complex.
More information about the club is available at
www.lincolnfcsoccer.com.
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If you'd like to come out and support the Lincoln teams, below
are the times they will be playing, according to age group:
U9:
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8:45 a.m. Saturday
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12:30 p.m. Saturday
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1 p.m. Sunday
U10:
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2:30 p.m. Saturday
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4:50 p.m. Saturday
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11:15 a.m. Sunday
U12:
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5:45 p.m. Friday
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2:30 p.m. Saturday
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9 a.m. Sunday
U14:
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9:50 a.m. Saturday
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1:55 p.m. Saturday
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11:45 a.m. Sunday
[Text from file received from Tim
Stuckey]
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