Heartland Soccer Association Announces the Acquisition of the Premiership and Champions League.OVERLAND PARK Overland Park, city (1990 pop. 111,790), Johnson co., NE Kans., a residential suburb of Kansas City; inc. 1960. There is printing and publishing, and the manufacture of apparel, aircraft parts, cement, prepared foods, salt, chemicals, marine accessories, and signs. , Kan. -- Heartland Soccer Association announces the acquisition of the Premiership and Champions Soccer League. In the fall of 2006, Heartland and the Premiership jointly created the Champions League, which formed one of the most competitive soccer leagues in the Midwest. A record number of teams, exceeding 200, played in Kansas City's top premier league. Today, the companies have announced the merging of league operations. Premiership Sports league A sports league is an organization that exists to provide a regulated competition for a number of people to compete in a specific sport. At its simplest, it may be a local group of amateur athletes who form teams among themselves and compete on weekends; at its most complex, it can staff will join Heartland Soccer to administrate ad·min·is·trate tr.v. ad·min·is·trat·ed, ad·min·is·trat·ing, ad·min·is·trates To administer. administrate Verb [-trating, -trated the combined soccer leagues with projected league participation of 700 teams each season. Huw Williams, President of Premiership Sports, will assume the League Director title and oversee all operations of both premier and recreational league play. "This is a great step for youth soccer in Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). . There was a tremendous amount of synergy The enhanced result of two or more people, groups or organizations working together. In other words, one and one equals three! It comes from the Greek "synergia," which means joint work and cooperative action. built between our organizations with the creation of the Champions League. Now, this merger brings highly experienced soccer personnel to help lead our association," said Shane Hackett, Executive Director of Heartland Soccer Association. "There is no doubt the youth soccer community and our kids will benefit with two great soccer organizations coming together." "Having all the teams playing under the same organization makes a lot of sense and we thoroughly enjoyed working with Shane and the Heartland staff over the past season," explained Huw Williams. "We are now looking forward to developing the very best soccer leagues for our youth teams." All soccer league operations will be relocated to the Heartland Soccer offices in Overland Park, Kansas Overland Park is the second most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas. It is located in Johnson County, a satellite city of Kansas City, and is near Olathe, Lenexa, Prairie Village and Leawood. In 2006, the estimated population is 167,500. and will be in place for the upcoming spring soccer season. About Heartland Soccer Association Heartland Soccer Association is a non-profit youth soccer association formed to administer the game of soccer. Heartland represents approximately 700 teams, 12,000 youth players, 2,000 coaches and 350 referees in the Kansas City Metropolitan area. In addition to league play, Heartland conducts the largest soccer tournaments in the state of Kansas and Kansas City including the Toyota Midwest All Girls Tournament, Toyota Heritage Invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. , Kansas City Invitational and Champions Cup. |
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