the seventh annual Carolina Challenge Cup will be Mar 13-20 in Charleston, SC Toronto, DC United and Real Salt Lake make up the round robin tournament http://www.charlestonbattery.com/news.asp?y=2009&page=1&id=489 The Battery supporters are plannign a bunch of off feild events too (tailgates, pubcrawl, watch parties and maybe even have time for a couple pick up games) If anyone wants to come down, get in touch. Open invite for all the events Mikey
Other than tryouts, this may be the first 2010 "matches" advertised by a non-MLS team. Woo-hoo. At least minor league soccer is percolating on some level. Merry Christmas!
havent seen a schedule yet but if it is like years past the first match will start at 5pm and the second match 7:30pm. We will probably start around with tailgating around 2 or 3. (Jim what are you thinking? we've got to think of something good.) Some of us will probably start around 10 at the Madra Rua Pub for the early morning EPL matches.
No official press release yet but someone found this on the Battery website http://www.charlestonbattery.com/matches_season.asp looks like a place to buy tickets and the schedule for the tournament Saturday 3/13/2010 Charleston v Toronto FC / DC United v. RSL (Carolina Challenge Cup) 5:00PM Wednesday 3/17/2010 Charleston v. RSL / DC United v. Toronto (Carolina Challenge Cup) 5:00PM Saturday 3/20/2010 Charleston v. DC United / RSL v. Toronto (Carolina Challenge Cup) 5:00PM
I know RSL will take this (again) serious. Coach Kreis has already said he felt that winning the Carolina Challenge Cup was what got the club in the right mindset to win for 2009. So here's to RSL winning it twice!
As a Battery fan, I would like to win a game during the tournament. while we have drawn a few, I think we have only won two! Of course, most the time our guys have only been together a week or so....
Looks like RSL will be spending more than two weeks in Charleston with a friendly scheduled against the College of Chalreston on Mar 6. RSL preseason schedule to keep up with the all the details and events for the week in this thread https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1242839 Is it Mar yet?
Today is the kickoff of the Carolina Challenge Cup. Tailgate starts at 3pm near the east stand entrance Kickoff for the RSL/DC match is at 5pm TFC take on the Charlesotn Battery at 7:30 TFC looks to have webcast of the matches available at TFC TV for those that want to start the day off right Madra Rua has a full slate of EPL matches starting at 10am! weather is beautiful and looking forward to a day filled with soccer.
First day of the tourney over. weather ended up being pretty nasty. windy with rain and then later cold (although im sure that boosted scarf sales!) First match between RSL and DCU ended with DC winning 2-1 Two goals for Moreno for DC and a PK but Findley Second match between Charleston and Toronto ended 0-0. Over all the Battery looked pretty solid considering they had only been practicing together for about 3 days. Decent crowd too about 3300. here is some press. Charleston optimistic after opening match TFC kick off with draw RSL suffers Defeat DC defeate Salt Lake 2-1 TFC Asstinant coach Davsovic reaction to loss on TFC TV.
here are [ame="http://www.flickr.com/photos/krazyfoto/sets/72157623494670103/show/with/4432889404/"]some photos[/ame] from a Toronto fan that made the trip down to Charleston