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ANNANDALE FREEDOM WAGS
Division 3 Girls Travel Team
For Girls Born After July 31, 1995 "The Freedom is looking for talented athletes who love soccer, want to be challlenged and sincerely want to learn to play to the best of their ability" |
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Classic Tournament Division Champion WAGS U12 Division "P" Division Co-Champion* PWSI Ice Breaker Tournament Division Champion ODSL U11 Division I Champion GMU Pre-Season Tournament Age Group Champion *
Tied In Game Against And Standing Points
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4-0-0 7-0-2 3-1-0 8-0-0 4-0-0 |
12 Goals 26 Goals 16 Goals 28 Goals 16 Goals |
2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 |
The Annandale Freedom
plays FIFA's soccer in Division 3 of the Washington
Area Girls Soccer League and in tournaments in the fall and
spring, FIFA's
Futsal in the Washington Area
Regional Futsal League
in the winter and FIFA's Beach
Soccer in the
summer. The team practices and lives along Braddock Road in
Alexandria, Annandale and Fairfax, Virginia.
WAGS
- The Freedom
played in the Washington Area Girls Soccer League for the first time in
the Fall of 2007 scoring 26 goals to finish undefeated with 7 wins,
0 loses and 2 ties. For the spring, 2008 WAGS seeded seventy-two
U12 girls travel teams from D.C., Maryland and Virginia into seven
competitive divisions. The Freedom were selected to play in
Division 3 with the Arlington Flame, BRYC Axiom, BRYC Phoenix, CSA
Alliance, DC Stoddard Mischief, Herndon Curve, McLean Green Fury,
Olney Cyclones, Reston Strikers and Stafford Sparks.
FIFA'S FUTSAL® - The Freedom play
FIFA's 5-A-Side Futsal game in the winter to better learn how
to create even more goals in both Futsal and soccer. In Brasil
and in
many parts of the world Futsal is used to teach players to create
goals, the self confidence to possess (keep) the ball while
looking for teammates to work with and to move to support teammates
instantly both on offense and defense. 
FIFA'S
BEACH SOCCER - The Freedom
plays FIFA's 5-A-Side Beach Soccer game in the summer mostly just
because it's fun. In areas where Beach Soccer can be played year
round
it plays a significant role in player conditioning and teaches players
the subtle touch required to handle the ball in the air. 
PICTURE
PERFECT -
The Freedom are learning
the techniques and match understanding required to be comfortable with
the ball, to make decisions for themselves and to be successful.
It's the self-confidence to control the ball, look for teammates in a
better position than they are in and to make decisions that gives each
player and the team the best opportunity to succeed. The goal is
to teach every girl to be just a little better, every day, one day at a
time."The decisions you
make on the field determine the opportunities you and your teammates
have!"
PLAYER DEVELOPMENT - The Freedom are professionally coached by Jack Wall and trained by Luis Barros and Edith Hernandez.
Luis, who trains the girls in the
summer, is a former Assistant National Team Coach and Professor in the
Teaching Methodology of Futebol and Futsal at Sao Paulo University in
Brasil. Luis is currently in Japan developing a new National
Youth Training Program for the Japanese Football
Federation. Luis has visited our area for six years to work
with Division I and II NCSL and WAGS teams. Edith trains the girls during the rest of the year and was trainer for the Azul the three years the team won the Virginia State Cup Championship for their age group.
Jack has been coaching for almost thirty years and is Technical Director for the Washington Area Futsal League where he teaches coaching courses, based on materials from Brasil, in the Art of Creating Goals and in Teaching Possession Soccer. Jack also trains players and teams affiliated with various clubs in the area. Former players have played professionally in Europe and Latin America as well as for their college and high school teams.
BACKGROUND - The Freedom was formed by Ann Mastrota and Jan Ludwick, who still enjoy working with the girls. Jack, Edith and Luis joined the team to help the girls learn to be the best players that they can be. The Freedom represents the Annandale Boys & Girls Club (ABGC) and practices and plays home games on fields in Annandale, Virginia. Away games are played on our opponent's home field.
In the fall and spring the Freedom . . .
- practice two evenings a week
- train with Edith one evening a week
- play league games on Sunday afternoons
- may play one or two league games per season on Saturdays
- play in three tournaments, usually on holiday weekends
- play in the
Virginia State Cup for their age group in the spring
- train once a week
- play competitive Futsal games usually on Sundays
- play beach soccer in early June
- train with Luis
three times a week in July and August when Luis is visiting