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[Annual Review 2019]
2019 has been a
success with so many great memories. Big thanks to
everyone's continuing support to the club and let’s
review what we did in this year!
[The 3rd 06 Lunar New Year Cup]
- February 9, 2019 - |
The 3rd "06 Lunar New Year Cup" was held on Pier 40 in an
extreme cold evening. This event is modeled on the
"Guangdong – Hong Kong Cup" held by Hong Kong and China
every year during the Lunar New Year. Members who are not
from these two places will be listed as foreign aid players
and assigned to one of the teams. This event is held once a
year during the Lunar New Year. This year, the Hong Kong
team defeated the Guangdong team by 3-2 and regained the
last lost championship.
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[06 Official Soccer Balls and Membership
Rewards Card]
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February 25, 2019 - |
For the first time, 06UFC cooperated with foreign
ball manufacturer to produce a total of 500 official
training soccer balls for our training purposes. In
addition, 06UFC also cooperated with a number of
business partners to produce and issue "06 Rewards
Card". The concept and purpose of this plan is to
promote our business partners’ business in various
industries while offering special discounts and
promotions to hundreds of our members and staff.
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[The Youth Training Program]
- March 23, 2019 - |
After a long winter break, our Youth Soccer Training
Program was re-launched in the Spring and continued
training in Queens and Brooklyn every weekend. In
addition, we also regularly organize free tryouts
opportunities for children in the community. This
year, three selection courses were held to attract a
total of about 300 young players. However, only
about 40 children were finally accepted as new youth
members due to the limited spots.
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[Official Youth Partnership with NYCFC]
- April 18, 2019 - |
The 06UFC Soccer Academy was honored to become an
official partner with the New York City Football
Club (NYCFC), a professional league of the MLS. We
are the first Asian soccer club to be officially
recognized by the NYCFC. Because of the partnership,
activities such as watching live professional
matches and visiting NYCFC's home Yankee Stadium had
been arranged. Our youth coaches also regularly
participate in the coaching courses provided by
NYCFC in order to obtain more professional license
qualifications.
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[The 2019 NE Cup]
- May 25, 2019 - |
The 06UFC Adult Team went to Pennsylvania to
participate in the 2019 NE Cup. We were drawn to
Group A of the Open Group. We played 4 group matches
in a day with 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.
Unfortunately, we failed to qualify for the knockout
stage to the team who had 7 points and ranked second
in the same group. In the end, the champion of NE
Cup open group 2019 was won by NJ Newport-UIUC team
from Group A.
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[The 06 Soccer Summer Camp]
- July 1, 2019 - |
This year, we started “06 Soccer Summer Camp”
training class program to provide more children and
young people with the opportunity to learn basic
soccer skills. Our aim was trying to discover their
soccer potential during the summer vacation. The
training classes last for 9 weeks with 2 lessons per
week. Training sessions were held in New York City's
four major Chinese communities (Flushing, Chinatown,
Sunset Park, and Maspeth) from Monday to Friday.
This summer camp activity attracted a total of 70
young soccer players to participate.
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[The Summer Classico 7v7 Tournament]
- July 20, 2019 -
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The annual "Summer Classico 7v7 Tournament " was
held on Randall's Island on the day with the New
York City Government's hot weather warning. We were
able to score a total of 22 goals in the first 5
rounds in order to reach the final. Unfortunately,
our players were physically overdrawn under the high
temperature of 105 degrees Fahrenheit and ended up
the first runner-up of this competition.
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[Farewell to Ryan Guo]
- August 17, 2019
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Since 2016, Ryan Guo has been our number one
goalkeeper. Ryan, nicknamed "06 De Gea", returned to
the Mainland China for good at the end of August. In
order to tribute Ryan, we hosted a simple farewell
ceremony at Pier 40, our home field, on the evening
of August 17. We thank him for his contribution to
our team for the past three years. We wish him a
bright future and will definitely see him again at
the soccer field!
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[The New York Chinese Soccer League]
- September
7, 2019 - |
06UFC and three other local Chinese teams (Aurora
FC, New Power FC, and NYU-Metrotech 08) began to
jointly organize and trial operate the "New York
Chinese Soccer League" in June this year. On
September 7th, the first round of the league began.
After more than two months of home-and-away games,
the 06UFC adult team won the first championship of
the league.
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[The 4th 06 Internal
Youth Tournament]
- September
15, 2019 - |
The 4th “06 Internal Youth Tournament” Soccer
Championship was held on September 15th in Sunset
Park, Brooklyn! This year, we had a record-breaking
total of more than 170 youth members from Queens and
Brooklyn registered to participate. The purpose of
this internal championship is to review what our
youth members have learned in the past and enjoy
playing soccer within a competitive environment. The
competition was divided into 6 different age groups.
As a result, the beginner division U7, U9, U11 and
advanced division U16 championship were won by the
Queens groups, and the beginner division U14 and
advanced division U13 championship were won by the
Brooklyn groups.
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[The 2nd Machine Cup
Tournament]
- October 13, 2019
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One of the most popular Chinese soccer events in New
York City, "Machine Cup" hosted by 06UFC was held on
October 13th at Flushing Meadows Corona Park Soccer
Field 8 and 9. Six Chinese soccer teams from New
York and New Jersey participated in this one-day
tournament, including 06UFC, Aurora FC, Columbia
University Chinese Soccer Team, New Bee Brothers FC,
New Jersey Star FC and New Power FC. About 180
players competed for the championship in this
tournament. After several fierce matches, both 06UFC
and Aurora FC reached the final. With goalless
within the standard time, the championship was
decided by penalty shootouts. Aurora FC won the
Machine Cup 2019 by scoring 4 to 3 in the penalty
shootouts against 06UFC.
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[The 1st Machine Youth Cup Tournament]
- November 3, 2019 -
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In addition to adult soccer, we are also actively
promoting the development of soccer for local
children. Our first "Machine Youth Cup" tournament
was held in Brooklyn Sunset Park on November 3rd.
Five Chinese soccer clubs from the Greater New York
area, including 06UFC, Aurora FC, FC Chinatown,
UCODA United Community Oriented Development
Association, and UEAA United East Athletics
Association participated. The children were divided
into two age groups, U11 and U14. Nine teams played
a total of 18 intense matches. The "Machine Youth
Cup" is regarded as the unprecedented and the first
large-scale children and youth soccer tournament in
the history of Chinese soccer in the Greater New
York area. Our aim is to promote soccer to the local
Chinese culture across levels and to provide
platform for youth soccer players to communicate.
After many games, 06UFC won the championship of U11
division, FC Chinatown won the championship of U14
division, and UEAA won the runner-up awards in both
the U11 and U14 divisions.
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[The 7th 06 Internal Cup]
- November 23, 2019 - |
The 7th "06 Internal Cup" was the last competition
of this year. This year, there were more than 40
adult members, divided into five teams to play in
the tournament. The two teams with the highest
points in the tournament played in the final to
compete for the championship. The surprise of this
year's tournament was overwhelming. Team A, which
has a number of main players in our first team, lost
all four games, while Team E won the "06 Internal
Cup" championship this year! As usual, the names of
all the championship team members will be engraved
on the trophy of the "06 Internal Cup" as a
memorial.
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[Outstanding Community Service Award]
- December 31, 2019 - |
On the New Year's Eve, 06UFC is honored to receive
the "Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Community
Service" award from the New York City Council, affirming our
contribution and effort to actively promote soccer in the
Chinese community in the New York City. We will continue to
do our best to contribute to the local Chinese community in
the future.
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Finally, we would like to thank the sponsors for their full
support in the 2019 season and the full cooperation
of all team members, coaches, volunteers, and
parents of our youth players! In 2020, it will be
06UFC’s 14th anniversary. We will continue to host
more different types of soccer activities and
persist our belief of developing soccer for our
local Chinese community here in New York City.
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