Lac La Biche hosts Surf Soccerfest for Lakeland teams

Rob McKinley May 15, 2022 1:04 PM
Surf Nation Soccer is a new Canadian association looking to link minor soccer associations with resources and expertise from soccer professionals across the Country. The group's tournament in Lac La Biche over the weekend was offered with free registration for teams and a skills clinic for older players.▲
Teams from across the Lakeland and other regions were in Lac La Biche for the weekend soccer fun-tourney on the Bold Center Sports Fields.▲
Lac La Biche FC president Glenda Bouvier snaps a photo of one of hundreds of youngsters taking part in the Surf Soccerfest in Lac La Biche over the weekend.▲
Local referees and volunteers with the Lac La Biche FC organization worked with event sponsors to host dozens of soccer games over the weekend.▲
Sometimes the benefit of being a local advertiser in the local newspaper is getting some free promotion :) during local event coverage.▲
Soccer fans and families took in the weekend tournament ... some perhaps thinking a little about hockey as well. ▲
The Surf Soccer Nation banners marked the weekend soccer event in Lac La Biche▲
Lots of photo and video clips were taken over the fun weekend tournament.▲

LAC LA BICHE - The Surf Soccerfest brought waves of teams to the Lac La Biche's Bold Center Sports Fields over the weekend.

Teams from across the Lakeland and northern Alberta took part in the event that was billed as a fun and festival-style tournament for young players in the U7 to U11 divisions.

The weekend also featured a more competitive U13 division, as well as an afternoon soccer clinic on the event's final day.

Lakeland This Week and www.lakelandtoday.ca will have the final results from the tournament in a following update.

The next tournament in the Lakeland area is the U7-U9 mini tournament in Vermilion on May 28 and the U11 Spring Classic, also in Vermilion on May 29.  St. Paul is hosting a U7-U11 tournament on June 4, and the Mini-Wetlands Tournament for U7 to U11, hosted by the Bonnyville Soccer Association, runs on June 11.

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