As Kay noted in her last blog post, it's been a "little" hectic around Aztex headquarters. If playing four home exhibitions before the season wasn't enough, our first week of the regular season featured three games. What a way to start as an expansion franchise! Trial by fire I guess.
While the pre-season and that first week of the season were a bit taxing, they were incredibly rewarding as well. It was absolutely amazing to see the great turnouts at the games, which really validated what we all believed from the start--Austin loves its soccer.
Many of you have said as much. We've heard from countless fans including many who made it out to their first professional soccer match, what a great experience it is for the entire family.
It's hard to describe how gratifying it is to hear so much positive feedback.
The other thing we've heard from many fans is how impressed they are with the level of play. Personally, I have been preaching for months to whoever would listen -- media, potential sponsors, friends and family -- that the USL, and our team specifically, can hang with any MLS squad. I think the results from the pre-season beared that out.
Adrian has done an outstanding job of assembling both local and international talent that works well as a unit. Behind the scenes we saw and heard how things were going, and now everyone else is in on the secret. With all due respect to the PGA, "These guys are good."
What's even better, this is just the beginning. There's much more where that came from.
It should be an exciting season. Look forward to seeing you guys out at The Nelson.
Go Aztex!
Kyle
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Apologies.....
......for it being so long since our last post. My only excuse is that there has been quite a lot going on both in and out of the office. It's hard to believe the opening game is actually here, but it's so exciting. I hear and see it every day with staff, players, coaches and of course, the fans.
I'll just share a few of the fun experiences we've had in the last few weeks - one of them was at Covington Middle School. We are working with Austin ISD to help improve the cardio vascular fitness of the middle school kids and so our players have been going out and taking PE sessions, showing the kids soccer drills. The coach called me the day before the guys were due to go out and explained that the principal had called a pep rally, was that ok. Needless to say, the opportunity to spread the word about the Aztex to the whole school was too good to miss. Up steps Ron Dennie, our Youth Club Liaison & Camps Director and David Sias, our Californian defender. They had the school hall rocking, shouting for the Aztex, diving for the freebies they were throwing out into the crowd! They came back elated and feeling a bit like rock stars!
We had the pleasure of welcoming the Founder members to a meet the players event, the highlight of which was the chalk talk from Adrian and Bobby - it all makes such perfect sense now :)
The players will be at Cuatro's this evening and we'd love to see you there. Then we have a Youth Club night on Friday before we even get started on the game activities. Can't wait for you to meet the mascot!
Finally, this has all been made even more wonderful for me personally because my daughter Nikki and her boyfriend Rich are visiting from the UK along with our director Gary and his wife plus another 8 'Stokies' here to cheer on the Aztex - what's 5000 miles between friends!
See you on Saturday!
Kay
I'll just share a few of the fun experiences we've had in the last few weeks - one of them was at Covington Middle School. We are working with Austin ISD to help improve the cardio vascular fitness of the middle school kids and so our players have been going out and taking PE sessions, showing the kids soccer drills. The coach called me the day before the guys were due to go out and explained that the principal had called a pep rally, was that ok. Needless to say, the opportunity to spread the word about the Aztex to the whole school was too good to miss. Up steps Ron Dennie, our Youth Club Liaison & Camps Director and David Sias, our Californian defender. They had the school hall rocking, shouting for the Aztex, diving for the freebies they were throwing out into the crowd! They came back elated and feeling a bit like rock stars!
We had the pleasure of welcoming the Founder members to a meet the players event, the highlight of which was the chalk talk from Adrian and Bobby - it all makes such perfect sense now :)
The players will be at Cuatro's this evening and we'd love to see you there. Then we have a Youth Club night on Friday before we even get started on the game activities. Can't wait for you to meet the mascot!
Finally, this has all been made even more wonderful for me personally because my daughter Nikki and her boyfriend Rich are visiting from the UK along with our director Gary and his wife plus another 8 'Stokies' here to cheer on the Aztex - what's 5000 miles between friends!
See you on Saturday!
Kay
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