Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Facts about the US women deaf national team

Women’s US deaf national team

Who people think we are?
Scam
Participators in Special Olympics
Players with no future
Unable to communicate with the hearing world


Who we really are??

Soccer fanatics
USNT supporters
Former, Current, and Future College athletes
50% fluent in sign language, 50% fluent in communication (lip read & speech)
2x Gold Medalists


Over the last three months we have decided to connect with Columbus Crew about a Deaf Event.  We are going to Ankara, Turkey for the World Championships in July of 2012.  Fortunately, the MLS organization is allowing the women’s team to participate in an exhibition match at noon on April 28th, 2012 against Otterbein, a D2 school from Ohio and the men’s to participate in an exhibition game as well at 3pm.  Then afterwards the Crew will take on the Vancouver Whitecaps at 7:30pm.

For all 3 games tickets are on sale for as little as $25 dollars.   A percentage will go to the US deaf national team funds for Ankara, Turkey.  This event will include a tailgate booth, ASL club, and many other sponsors.

I can’t even begin to explain the improvement I have seen within the team from Taipei, Taiwan (2009 deaflympics gold medalist team).  Ever since then, we have been able to acquire more athletes from all over the country.

On our roster for Columbus, Ohio for the weekend of April 26th, there is a professional soccer player who currently plays in Sweden that is a member of the team, 6 current and former D1 soccer players, and many future D1 soccer players.

People often misunderstand us because in the previous years we have not advertised our organization very well, unfortunately people are uneducated about the deaf culture and doubt our capabilities of competing and being able to succeed in the hearing world.

These women really take a pride in being able to represent their own country.  Americans are known to be true patriots and big supporters.  So please come out and support the US deaf national teams in Columbus.  Here is the link of ticket sales with the special code, deafsoccer, which expires April 13thhttp://www.thecrew.com/deafsoccer/.  Also, if you are unable to make the event due to long distance please feel free to make a donation on the bottom of the US deaf soccer website! http://usdeafsoccer.com/

Please comment if you have any questions and I will get back to you asap. 

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