Capital Soccer Club's U17 Boys team has drawn Seacoast United Maine, BC United Fusion(New York West), and Beadling SC(PA West) in the Region 1 National Championship Tournament.

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Ariel Goodman & Julienne Vergura have traveled to Armenia, a small mountainous country in central Asia that borders Iran, Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan. It took two days of flying, via New York, London, and Moscow, before they finally arrived at 3:30 a.m. in Yerevan, the Armenian capital this past Sunday. They have come to Armenia to volunteer for three weeks in an orphanage outside the capital. Armenia, which was part of the Soviet Union until 1991, has many orphans as a result of a 1988 earthquake that killed 25,000 people, and a six-year long war with neighboring Azerbaijan that ended in 1994 which displaced about 250,000 people. The orphanage is run by the 60-year old international aid organization, SOS Children's Villages (www.sos-childrensvillages.org/), which works with orphans in 132 countries. The girls joined the group through Volunteers for Peace (www.vfp.org/), a volunteer network based in Vermont. This is the second overseas volunteer trip that Jules & Ariel have taken together. last summer, they traveled to Estonia, where they helped repair a local school.

Ariel and Jules have been busy preparing for their Armenian trip for the last month. They spent a morning in the classroom of Ariel's 1st/2nd grade teacher at Thatcher Brook Primary School, where they had all the students write and draw pictures about their lives in Vermont. They also took photos of the kids. They are bringing this book of pictures and photos to Armenia, and they will bring back a similar book from kids there for the Vermont schoolchildren to learn about Armenia. Jules & Ariel also wanted to share one of their biggest passions with the Armenian kids: soccer! They told George Cook & Peter Kim about their trip, and Capital Soccer Club very generously donated soccer balls, bags, shirts, key chains and other club gear to the project. The girls also gathered donated kid's clothing and equipment from families whose children attended the Highlander soccer camp at Harwood Union High School, where they both coached in late June. Ariel & Jules figure that soccer -- or "funfootball," as the locals call it -- is the universal language, and they can communicate with anyone anywhere in the world just by dropping a ball in the middle of a group of kids and chasing it down a field.