Train the Trainer If you are planning on (or thinking about) coaching recreational soccer at ABF, you’re invited to attend a train-the-trainer session Saturday, September 4 at 17:00 at ABF. At the session, you’ll be guided through the keys to being successful at the recreational level by ABF’s professional trainer, Joost de Gelder, who has worked extensively with Socatots and the Brazilian Soccer School in the Netherlands. You’ll get an overview of the program along with info and walk-throughs of how to run the training sessions with kids of particular ages. You’ll also get some materials to help plan your team’s specific sessions. This is a great way to help kids find or keep their love for the sport and a wonderful way to give back to the community.   In our ex-pat environment, we always need someone to step in and lend a hand. Please help us be prepared! Send an e-mail toinfo@abfsport.nl to let us know if you’d like to attend. Baseball News The ABF Trojans are looking for a few good middle schoolers! Click here for complete details. Fall Season Approaches Welcome back to our members and greetings to new families! YES!—registration is open for both our Recreational and KNVB Soccer programs. You can just click the “registration” tab above to get started. AMERICAN FLAG FOOTBALL is back! Click here for complete details. SOCCER NEWS Recreational Soccer League Update The Recreational Program will commence on September 11. Click the “Soccer” tab on the top right of this page to see all the other dates for the fall season. Registration is open now. Register before September 5 for last season’s prices and to request a specific coach or friend on a team. If you’ve ever considered coaching or helping to coach, we’d love you to attend Train-the-Trainer sessions on September 4. Please join us! E-mail info@abfsport.nl to RSVP. What’s the difference between playing for the KNVB team and the recreational program? The KNVB league is a 9 month season. It runs from September to May of each year with a winter holiday break. The ABF KNVB teams meet 3 times per week: two trainings (Sunday and Wednesday) and one game (Saturday). Games are at home on the ABF fields and away at other fields usually within a 20 minute drive. KNVB league play begins at the F division (girls and boys with birthdays in 2002 or 2003 and older). Athletes playing on KNVB teams are expected to be on-time for practice and games, as well as attend at least 80% of training sessions and games. The recreational soccer program is an intramural program that takes place on Saturdays and Sundays at ABF in the spring and fall, and an indoor program in the winter. It starts at Tykes (4 year-olds) and runs through E division. Tykes and Pee Wees (5-6 year-olds) are Saturdays only while the E’s and F’s play both days of the weekend. Girls and boys play together on mixed teams through the F division. Children falling into the D divisions and older are encouraged to sign up for KNVB soccer due to the numbers of athletes participating. ABF also runs an intra-mural all-girls division in the recreational league on Saturdays and Sundays in the fall and spring for girls from approximately 8-12. If you need more information for the KNVB program, click the “KNVB” button on the right side of the page. The “soccer” button will direct you to the recreational program specifics. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER KNVB Soccer Update First Training of the ABF KNVB teams 2010-2011 : 1st September 2010 Please make sure you have checked the schedule and know when and where your game is! Results, Match Schedules, and Training Schedules are updated, when there is new information. in urgent KNVB cases please mail to: "ABF KNVB Soccer" soccer@abfsport.nl CLICK FOR MORE KNVB INFORMATION....INCLUDING UPDATED TRAINING TIMES AND GAME SCHEDULES     BASEBALL News The 2010 Season will continue this August. Registration for the fall camp will be open soon.     CLUB NEWS Welcome to the New Board! President: Kerry Cooper (until December 5) Transitional VP: Open Treasurer: Peter Jorgensen Secretary/ASH Liaison: Carolyn Thompson VP of Publicity: Jennifer Lowe VP of Baseball: Joe Young VP of Basketball: Open VP of Soccer: Abraham Serbertsoglou Member-at-Large: Open Registrar: Matt Palmer WANTED: Volunteers Your club is an all-volunteer run, private, non-profit organization. Have you been thinking about how you can get involved to make ABF an even better club? We need some motivated people to help us provide great services for our membership community for the upcoming year. Besides volunteer positions on the pitch, field or court, ABF need lots of volunteers to fill positions. In particular, the board is still searching for volunteers for several specific positions including: Assistant Treasurer Vice President of Basketball Volunteer Coordinator(s) for Recreational Soccer , Baseball and Basketball Scheduler Uniforms If you are interested in volunteering, or have any questions, please send us an e-mail: info@abfsport.nl. We want to hear from you! ABF offers English-speaking soccer and baseball programs where kids learn technical skills, rules and teamwork and have fun playing the game. More than 30 nationalities are represented at our club.

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