Soccer Shorts

New Print Date On This Issue

Check the print date at the bottom of this copy of Southern Soccer Scene. You will see that we moved our print schedule back a week for a number of production considerations. This has allowed us to include championship results for high school playoffs in North Carolina and Virginia, as well as the results of the tthird round of 2013 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup competition.
All of those events would have happened right after we went to press on our old print cycle, thus missing them in this issue. We also have been able to include results of the last two World Cup qualifiers, as well as previewing the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

It’s Happened Again!

A longtime youth soccer administrator has been cha[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]rged with stealing more than $100,000 from the Tri-Boro Youth Soccer Club in Whitehall Township, Pa. Brian Farley, who has been the club treasurer since 2006 has been charged with theft and receiving stolen property after it was discovered by the new club president that the club’s bank accounts showed less than $5,000 as opposed to $30,000 Farley had reported. Only one person was reported to have had access to club bank accounts, and that one person was Brian Farley.

Jurisprudence

A 20-year old man, Zachery Lemmo, has been charged with vehicular homicide while intoxicated in the death of former Boston Globe Coach of the Year James Braga. Braga, 61, was a teacher and coach at Middleborough (Mass.) HS outside of Boston. Lemmo was driving the car in the crash that killed Braga. He has been accused of drag racing just prior to the accident, and running a red light before striking Braga’s car……Michigan youth soccer coach Kevin Papuga, 22, has been arrested on chrges in connection with a jewelry store heist last fall in downtown Rochester, Mich. Papuga is a former boys and girls youth soccer coach in the Vardar West program.
Protests In Brazil
The first two days of the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil were marred by protests, as many people feel that the money that has been spent on new stadiums for next summer’s World Cup would have been better used on education and hospitals. According to the BBC, up to 1,000 Brazilians protested near the National Stadium in Brasilia, the capital, on Saturday, ahead of Brazil’s 3-0 win against Japan in the tournament’s opening game. Reuters reports that the protests continued on Sunday near Rio de Janeiro’s newly renovated Maracana stadium, where Mexico lost 2-1 to Italy.
The protests continued to escalate during the Confederations Cup to include other social and economic concerns within the Brazilian population. Officials have expressed concern that similar protests could occur during the 2014 World Cup. FIFA President Sepp Blatter responded to criticism of the cost of staging the World Cup in Brazil by pledging to give at least $100 million from profits back to the country.