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C.J. Thomas
Contributing Writer

MEMBERS of the

local soccer community
can stop complaining
that they can’t find
much locai soccer
information.

Thanks to the World Wide
Web all the local soccer stuff
you can handle is casily
accessed on the B.C. Sosce
Web: (www. besaccerweb.

com),

Do you want to know
whar's up with the Vancouver
86°ers this off season?

Youll find it quickly on
the Saceer Web.

What about
Vancouver Metro League
standings? = Premier — right
dawn to Division Three are
covered in detail.

How sbout whether your
North Shore girls’ soccer
under-16 team’s game in
Coquitlam is still on because

the

north shore news

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of all the rain?

You can easily fink to the
status for parks all over the
Lower Mainiand.

The web site also has links
and pages thar will take vou
all over the soccer world with
alittle ‘net surting savvy.

Soccer Web founder
Martin Rose says his creation
is geared mainly for soccer
people in B.C.

“L was surling the net just
like anybody else, luoking for
any local soccer info 1 could
find, when I realized there
was’ a source for local soc-
cer, TP got the idea for the
B.C. Soccer Web,” Rose said.

His initial interests were
the 86°ers and Canadian
National teams: “E saw differ-
ent areas of the country hav-
ing their own perspectives
and that B.C. needed it’s own
unique voice.”

Since its inception in
1996, the Soccer Web has
grown. steadily. Ins the first
three weeks of 1999, the site
has registered over 7,000
hits.

West Vancouver's Richard

SPORTS
a Wa

Howes designed and = main-
rains the site. Rase is the edi
tor.

“We started with the
semior game and now we're
working our way down...

“The North Shore
girls’ soccer ...
site can be easily
linked from the
Soccer Web, as can
all North Shore
youth associations’
websites.”

seniors don’t seem to know
about youth and youth don’t
stem tO know about the
senior game,” Rose said.

The B.C. Soccer Web uses
a small core of contributors
to cover the focal soccer
scene and pays particular
attention to the Vancouver
Metro Premier Division,

ud

Wednesday, Jznuary 27, 1999 - North Shore News — 44

E resource

arguably the top amateur
teapue in Canada.

One complaint heard
about the Soccer Web is it’s
lack of coverage at the youth
levels.

“One thing ata. time,”
counters Rose. “We cover the
youth game but there’s a big
difference between the youtt
recreational and youth com-
petitive Teagues. We pa,
attention to stories about the
development of players: who
will become senior players.”

The site also offers the
public an opportunity to have
their voices heard. The
Soccer Web regularly posts
guest columns trom the soc-

cer public covering a host of

problems.

The ova burning issues
currently are the winter vs.
summertime soccer debate,
and the ongoing struggle to
develop) players whe could
lead Canada into a future
World Cup.

The North Shore girls’
sQccer association site can be
easily linked from the Soceer
Web, as can ali the North

Shore youth associations’
Web sites.

Three North Shore Senior
men’s clubs have sites on the
B.C. Soccer Web as well.

The Freyhe Vikings sum-
mer soccer web page offers
info on the North Shore
Sportsmen’s Summer Soccer
League.

The Viking site is a great
resource on summer soccer
schools, clinics and links to
the North Shore Sovcer
Training Centre.

The North — Shore's
Persian Community may
want to check out Shaheen
F.C.’s page as it covers the
local club and has links to
news and information from
Iran.

Pegasus F.C... site is one
of the best sites | ve seen any-
where and offers the public a
chance to debate local and
international soccer issues.

Thase visitng Peg's Web
site will need to bring a sense
of humour with them.

The B.C, Saccer Web wel-
comes any suggestions to add
to it’s growing site.

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