Goleros seek spot in summer league

As you've seen from email, CCSL runs a less-structured, 7-game summer league with two divisions.



Based on strong interest, we have sought a spot in the league. We're going to try to occupy a slot all by ourselves, without merging with another team, and I think we have plenty of players to do that. Mergers are a nice way to accommodate multiple teams, but I don't think it worked very well for us, even though it was fun. You have leadership issues and a whole lot of field issues that come at the expense of improving team strategies and tactics. But we'll see. We might need players and we might be asked to make it happen.



In terms of divisions, I suspect we will be allocated to the lower division, since they usually put Premier and 1st Divsion teams in the upper division, and put the 2nd and 3rd division teams in the lower division. We will, however, seek to go to the upper division for experience.



Here's the email reply I sent to the commissioner on the subject.



More on this later. We will be asking for firm commitments and money some time this spring.

Sanjay -

The Goleros are in for summer league. At this time,
I expect to be able to field a full team without a
merger.

Regarding the World Cup, the only match that will overlap
with the season, according to the schedule you laid out, is the final. It
will be played on July 11th at 14:30 Eastern/ 20:30 Johannesburg.
Thus, some creative scheduling (all morning or evening games) should avoid
overlap. Also, if you have to schedule in the afternoon, you can put the
non-CCSL teams there!

Regards,

Peter

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Sanjay Nayar

Hi all,

I wanted to get a sense of how many
teams would be interested in playing in a CCSL Summer league this year.
Remember that the World Cup will also be going on during this time so please
consider that when deciding yay or nay.

Some particulars:

Season would run from July 11th through Aug 22nd
Games would be only on Sundays
There would be 7 weeks of games only with no bye weeks
We would likely have 2 divisions: A & B distributed based on level
Results would have no bearing on promotion/relegation
Looking to cap at 18 teams max and CCSL teams have first dibs
Games would/could be at Ridge, Arlington (Wakefield), GW, and/or GMHS
Cost would be around $1400 as with previous
summer sessions

Teams are allowed to have 30 people on the roster
As before, merging of teams to form a single squad is perfectly legit
If you are interested in reserving a spot, please let me know by this Friday May 7th.
First come first served....

Sanjay