Day 2 - Our First Day of Training as a Team

Back on the bus for another ride. They say this one to the ranch will be an hour or so. Guess we're not eating lunch for two. See you there.


Some of the flags of the nations being represented at the Maccabi Games. There's Israel, Mexico, Argentina and England.

These are some of the buildings at the Sports Complex Nautica Hacoaj. This is all of our games are being played as well as basketball, volleyball, tennis, field hockey and futsol (mini-soccer).

This is my teammate Shaun Rootenberg. We played on the college soccer team at UWO 25 years ago and several leagues both indoors and outdoors before I moved to Arizona. It's great to be playing with Shaun again. He is a rock at center full-back and a sharp goal scorer when he takes his forays into the offensive zone. If Shaun played for Payson FC, both CJ and Richie could play forward with no worries.

At the field getting our gear on. That's Steve L in the black, a teammate of mine from Team Canada 1989 Maccabi team that played in Israel. The rest are getting their pads and old man medicine on their achy muscles.

Scott Cohen and Elliott Koolik (Kool) both defenders that guard our goal fiercely.

Down in the lobby of the hotel after at 6:30 breakfast loosening up and waiting for the bus to take us to the Nautica Hacoaj sports complex for our first team training session since Florida in September and New Jersey in April. From L to R, Greg, Brian, David (sitting), Bryan (back to us), Adrian (bid dude in the white T) and Shaun R.