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ENYYSA CHALLENGE CUP: Soccer Kids NYC capture Boys U-12 championship
Overview:
Soccer Kids NYC defeated the Beacon Beasts, 5-2, in extra time in the Boys Under-12 Challenge Cup final. This Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association final was played at the Blue Sky Sports Complex in Middletown, N.Y. on June 1.
Soccer Kids NYC downed the Beacon Beasts for the ENYYSA Bouys U-12 Challenge Cup title in extra time. (Photo courtesy of ENYYSA)
Soccer Kids NYC defeated the Beacon Beasts, 5-2, in extra time in the Boys Under-12 Challenge Cup final. This Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association final was played at the Blue Sky Sports Complex in Middletown, N.Y. on June 1.
Soccer Kids compete in the Cosmopolitan Junior Soccer League, the Beacon Beasts in the Hudson Valley Youth Soccer League.
“They were hungry,” Soccer Kids NYC coach Eric Cevallos. “We lost in the final on penalty kicks last year. After Beacon scored to tie it up at 2-2 and send the game into overtime, we talked about it and then scored three goals in overtime.”
Lucas Miranda, Khaled Mahmoud, Oliver Liu, Miguel Cordero and Gerell Hoyte scored for Soccer Kids NYC.
Soccer Kids NYC will also be bringing back the Rocco Amoroso Sportsmanship Award, as determined by the game officials, to New York City. Amoroso, a US Soccer Life Member who died in 2016, started the Long Island Junior Soccer League Sportsmanship Program in 1980 and it spread to Eastern New York, nationally and then to China and Ireland.