Casablanca, Morocco (Part 1)
About six weeks had passed between our last run of programs in North Africa and the Middle East and my next trip. I vowed to stay away from the latter
Beirut, Lebanon
To accurately tell the story of this next program, I have to travel back in time to earlier this summer. The date was July 19, just a few days before
Cairo, Egypt (Part 2)
Legs weary after a three hour Thursday kickaround with the boys, I decided to decline their offer to play Friday in order to (try to) properly rest ahead of our
Cairo, Egypt (Part 1)
Fresh off of a 12 day programming run in Colombia and a multi-week rest that followed, it was time to get back to footy and the kids. This next trip
Bogota, Colombia (Part 3)
It was now Friday, and we’d barely been in Bogota for a week yet there we were face-to-face with what would likely be our last day of Colombia-based programs. It
Bogota, Colombia (Part 2)
One successful session, albeit with a familiar beneficiary, out of the way, it was time to keep plowing ahead with programming. Next on the list, a new partner, but a
Bogota, Colombia (Part 1)
From June to late August, I took a summer break to focus on a few domestic programs. It was a good and much-needed sabbatical from international travel, as domestic blocks
Hartford, Connecticut
It had been a while since I dropped by for a program run by our trusty domestic partners, the Hartford Lions Soccer Academy (HLSA), so I was happy to link
Springfield, Massachusetts
A few weeks after wrapping up a long, multi-week run of Europe-based programming, I was eager for more. I shifted focus to the domestic front, at least for the summer,