Concacaf Next Play

Brian got an email this weekend from the Tennessee State Soccer Association about a coaching workshop and kids festival run by Concacaf.  Concacaf puts on the Gold Cup which is a biennial men's soccer tournament among teams from North America, Central America, and the Caribbean region.  Brian couldn't attend the coaching workshop on Monday but Carter and Rylan were free to do the kids festival last night.  And the best part - the first 40 kids received two free tickets to the semi-final Gold Cup game in Nashville (which is tonight).

Because I really wanted the free tickets, we planned a day downtown yesterday since the kids festival was in the Metrocenter area.  I took the boys to String City at the Country Music Hall of Fame and then to the new Tennessee State Museum.  Though we didn't get to watch the women's World Cup game, we were showing our support all day!

Gray had a baseball game so Brian got him from us and the big boys and I grabbed some food and headed to the soccer fields an hour early.  The gates to the fields were still locked and we were the fourth car in line (we weren't the only ones wanting free tickets!)

The coaches put on a great clinic for the kids.  Most of the kids were part of travel programs and there were a lot of great kids out there (it humbled Rylan a little).  But I think they had fun and they did well.  And we got our free tickets (and another mom was nice enough to give me one of her tickets they didn't need so we could have 5 tickets - yay!).