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June 2, 2011

ASG takes over local club soccer program

Wayne Grandy The Moultrie Observer

MOULTRIE —  The Georgia United Football Club has been dissolved and will become part of a new ASG Georgia program that Mike Wallace says will better serve young soccer players in the southwestern part of the state.

Wallace, who operated GUFC, will become the director of coaching for ASG Georgia, focusing on Moultrie and Thomasville, but he will leave the Moultrie YMCA program.

The Associated Soccer Group is a national organization and also operates ASG Florida, which has some 200 players in teams ranging from U10 through U18.

ASG Florida teams have traveled to Costa Rica, Argentina and Canada and the girls U19 team has gone to Europe and won the Holland Cup.

It also operates ASG Central Georgia in the Savannah area, Wallace said.

“We’re going international with this club,” Wallace said. “We’ll be on a bigger scale. We’re expanding and offering a lot more for the kids.

“We’re just trying to make soccer better in South Georgia and this is going to get us into a more competitive situation. We’re stepping it up to the next level. It’s exciting.”

ASG Georgia teams will be able to travel to Tallahassee for quality tournaments rather than having to go to Atlanta, Wallace said.

Moultrie will be the hub of the coaching operations, with Cairo and Thomasville hosting training and game play.

Robert Petersen, who is the head coach at Cairo High,  will take the position of associate director of coaching and will concentrate on the Cairo and Thomasville operations.

Andrew Warner, who operates ASG Florida, will direct the ASC Georgia program.

ASC Georgia will hold tryouts in at the Moultrie YMCA on Thursday and Friday June 9-10.

Tryouts for age groups U9, U10, U11, U12 and U13 boys and girls will be held from 5:30-6:45 p.m.

Tryouts for age groups U14, U15, U16, U17 and U18 boys and girls will be held from 7-8:30 p.m.

Cairo tryouts will be held at Barber Park on Monday, June 13 from 5:30-6:45 p.m. for age groups U9, U10, U11, U12 and U13 boys and girls.

For age groupd U14, U15, U16, U17 and U18, the Cairo tryouts will be from 7-8:30 p.m. on June 13.

Thomasville tryouts will be held on Tuesday, June 14 at the Singletary Soccer Complex. U12 and U13 boys and girls will try out from 5:30-6:45 p.m. Age groups U14, U15, U16, U17 and U18 boys and girls will try out from 7-8 p.m.

Having clubs in Cairo and Thomasville will allow young players from those areas, and farther west, an opportunity to join a quality soccer club without having to come all the way to Moultrie, Wallace said.

ASC Florida operates four clubs in the Tallahassee area, “and they chose to want to work with us,” Wallace said. “I think that says a lot about our kids.”

Wallace, who also is a past director of the TASA program, is pleased with the change.

“We are growing, growing growing,” Wallace said. “And they felt like they could come in and help.

“Now we can follow the model (Warner) has been using.”

For more information on the ASG Georgia team, contact Wallace at 229-224-5971 or Warner at 850-528-7578.



 

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