Edgewater Castle Football Club

Stone by Stone | An Edgewater Castle Soccer Talker A podcast dedicated to connecting the players, the club and the community. Take a listen to discover stories of triumph, hardship and plenty of good ol' fun! Episodes 1 - 3 are available now! 🎧 on Spotify https://lnkd.in/e995P6CF 🎦 on YouTube https://lnkd.in/eceFaYW4

end of one era and details on the next 🌊 🏰 🫶 . . . ft. Club President Andrew Swanson

Nice turnout on Saturday! Chicago Footy is alive and well! ⚽ #GoRooks 🌊 🏰

Wanna be a Rook? 🌊🏰 Tryouts for our 2025 squads are officially scheduled. Spots are limited. Request a trial here: https://lnkd.in/gXw3sHMv #WelcomeToEdgewater 🌊🏰

Wanna be a Rook? 🌊🏰 Tryouts for our 2025 squads are officially scheduled. Spots are limited. Request a trial here: https://lnkd.in/gTCqbxJC #WelcomeToEdgewater 🌊🏰

The global diversity of our community is one of the cornerstones of our organization, and celebrating the many components of our mutual identity is extremely important to us at Edgewater Castle FC. This is why we were so honored to be invited to join the Tanzanian Community Association-Midwest USA for the 63rd Anniversary of Tanzanian Independence. Congratulations to the current and former leadership of this great local organization for re-establishing your annual Independence Day event. We are lucky to be surrounded by so many passionate and hard working neighbors and wish you nothing but the best and 63 more years of freedom. "Asante sana, majirani na marafiki zetu."

The global diversity of our community is one of the cornerstones of our organization, and celebrating the many components of our mutual identity is extremely important to us at Edgewater Castle FC. This is why we were so honored to be invited to join the Tanzanian Community Association-Midwest USA for the 63rd Anniversary of Tanzanian Independence. Congratulations to the current and former leadership of this great local organization for re-establishing your annual Independence Day event. We are lucky to be surrounded by so many passionate and hard working neighbors and wish you nothing but the best and 63 more years of freedom. "Asante sana, majirani na marafiki zetu."

I know that this information may shock and surprise you... but it's Giving Tuesday! Obviously there are an enormous amount of newsletters, posts and emails going out across all mediums of digital communication today sharing that very same exclamation, but I can't help but mention just how deserving Edgewater Castle Football Club is of your support. For the last 7 years, we have build an organic grassroots community soccer club on the foundational pillars of volunteerism, community engagement, creativity and sustainably accessible programming. Through our strong partnerships with civic and private organizations of like-minded values, we have been able to not only sustain ourselves, but grow dramatically year over year, all while not charging a single player a single cent to participate in any of these programs - from youth after-school soccer camps to our elite adult teams - none of our players pay to play. This means that every dollar we have ever received has gone directly toward providing more opportunities to more players in our neighborhoods. A large part of our success has been the support of individuals in our community and abroad who are willing to chip in and help. Our club is changing a great deal in the next few months (all for the better & more on that soon), yet our foundations and our values are set in stone, and the people who have helped build our castle - stone by stone - have had an enormously important hand in making that the case. If you'd like to contribute a donation to support our work, you can do so through the following link: "We are the Strength Against the Storm. We are the Rooks!" #GOROOKS 🌊 🏰 🙏

I've been reminded by this site that we've been running Edgewater Castle Football Club for over 7 years. While those first days of the club's existence do feel like a long time ago in some ways, it also feels like just yesterday. If there's one phrase that pops into my head when I set my mind back to those early days, it's one that we've bean repeating every so often since - "Good things take time. Great things take longer." I'm proud of how far we've come, and proud to know that our ambition has only grown since James Kitia and I first discussed the idea over a cup of coffee at the neighborhood diner in 2017. We've got a massive amount more to accomplish in the next few years, and if I were you, I'd stay tuned in... exciting things to come. Go Rooks! Onward & Upward! Forever & Ever! #gorooks #vamosrooks #welcometoedgewater

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