On Saturday March 13th, the men's team had an exhibition game against the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer. We were really excited about the game because it was a great way for the Eagles to get people excited about soccer in the area. Besides that, we are able to reach a new group of people who might not normally come to our soccer games.
Leading up to the game we had the largest pre-sale in Charlotte Eagles history, over 1500 people. Unfortunately the forecast called for rain during the game. We were a little worried that we would not get a good turnout but in the end we had over 2,000 people. The one problem was that about 8 minutes into the game we had a lightning strike. We had to clear the stadium because we were on an open aluminum stands. As we were doing that people assumed that the game was over so they left the game. What we were trying to tell everyone was that we had to wait 30 minutes and they if there were no other strikes we could resume the game.
Praise the Lord we were able to resume the game and played all 90 minutes of the game. In the end the Eagles lost 2-0 but had some very good chances on goal, including hitting the post once and sending three just skipping wide of the post. The team played extremely well for only being together for about one week. The NE Revolution had been together for almost a month now.
On another note, as we have mentioned in the previous post, Caitlin has been helping with graphic designs for the team. She was able to produce a great program that we distributed. The cool thing was that we asked one of the coaches to write his story on the back of the program. We were able to distribute over 1,000 programs to the fans and players from New England that had that testimony on the back.
That same player actually played against the Eagles many years ago and received a similar testimony of an Eagles player which helped eventually lead him to Christ. It was his idea to do this again, planting a seed that the Lord could use to bring a player, fan, coach, or official to Christ. It was an awesome thing to be a part of such a great organization who's focus is to serve God!
Thank you again for each of you who makes this possible for Caitlin and I to be here. We pray for you and praise God for you!
Prayer requests:
- Caitlin is still looking for a job
- My mother's mother took a spill last week and ended up with some damage to her arm and head. She is ok now but is recovering from a surgery to repair a fracture in her elbow.
- We are close to finalizing the roster for the women's team. Please pray for the women that are not sure if they should play or not and those that we have to say no to.
Take care and I look forward to hearing from you.
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