LaGrange Soccer Program Special Stars Lets All Children Shine Bright

Welcome Hudson Valley! This is Conor Walsh, host of In Touch, Townsquare Media of the Hudson Valley’s Award-Winning Public Affairs and Issues program.   

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This week on In Touch, we speak with Jeff Feldman and Andrew Moroney from Special Stars Soccer Program. The goal of Special Stars and the LaGrange Soccer Club is to afford all children the opportunity to learn the Game of soccer, to interact with other children, make new friends, and to enjoy the spirit of comPetition.  

We invite you to join us and listen to a previously recorded conversation between Jeff, Drew and myself here on In Touch.  

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This has been this week’s edition of IN TOUCH, the award-winning public affairs and issues program that runs across Townsquare Media of the Hudson Valley radio stations. We want to thank Jeff Feldman and Drew Moroney. For more information, please visit https://www.lagrangesoccer.org/page/show/4732515-topsoccer 

 The LaGrange Soccer Club and Special Stars

The LaGrange Soccer Club has successfully established youth soccer teams for children with special needs. Organized soccer is now available to children with developmental or other disabilities in Dutchess, Putnam, and Northern Westchester Counties. Children with developmental or other disabilities between 5 and 21 years of age are invited to participate. Residency in the Town of LaGrange is not required. The goal of the LaGrange Soccer Club is to afford all children the opportunity to learn the Game of soccer, to interact with other children, make new friends, and to enjoy the spirit of comPetition.

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The TOPSoccer program is a community-based training and team placement program for young athletes with disabilities, organized by youth soccer association volunteers. The program is designed to bring the opportunity of learning and playing soccer to any boy or girl, who has a mental or physical disability. The goal is to enable the thousands of young athletes with disabilities to become valued and successful members of the US Youth Soccer family.

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I’ve been your host, Conor Walsh. Until next time, stay curious, keep an open mind, and as always, I’m glad we get to Spend Some Time.