Comets Weekly

July 15, 2004 - Major Indoor Soccer League 2 (MISL 2)
Kansas City Comets News Release

American Pro Sports, LLC and the Major Indoor Soccer League announced on Saturday that the California Cougars will join the league in play begining in the 2005-2006 season. The Cougars will call Stockton Events Center home, where they will be the first professional team to play. The indoor arena is currently being constructed and will seat 10,000 people. For more information on the California Cougars, please visit www.californiacougars.net.

While playing for the U.S. National Futsal team last weekend, Comets Matt Tanzini and Brian Soell helped the stars & stripes continue its unbeaten streak against CONCACAF rival Mexico at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif.

Soell scored the third goal on Friday, June 9, as the United States cruised to a 3-1 win. The next night, Tanzini brought the team back as he scored the equalizer in the second half. The game ended in a 3-3 tie. The U.S. National Futsal team has not lost to Mexico in six international matches.

Both the United States and Mexico will compete at the 2004 CONCACAF Futsal Championship from July 23-31 at the Palacio de los Deportes in Heredia, Costa Rica. In the tournament, the USA will be placed in Group B with Cuba, Guyana, and Panama. The eight-team CONCACAF Final Round will qualify two nations to the 2004 FIFA Futsal World Championship, to be held in Chinese Taipei from Nov. 21- Dec. 5. To see the United States' 12-man roster, visit the Milwaukee Wave's Web site.

Comets Vlatko Andonovski and Miki Djerisilo will be attending a screening of the film "Shaolin Soccer" on Saturday, July 17 at the Screenland Theatre in Kansas City, Mo. The theater is located just minutes away from Kemper Arena at 1656 Washington St. Click here for a map to Screenland. The movie begins at 3 p.m., but the players will be available starting at 2 p.m. to sign autographs and meet and greet fans.

Here's a review of the movie from Amazon's Bret Fetzer: "Computer generated special effects have seldom been so giddy as in Shaolin Soccer, a gleeful fusion of kung fu and a classic Bad News Bears sports story. A former soccer star--whose "golden leg" was broken by a hired mob--assembles a team of former students of Shaolin martial arts, whose assorted skills (indicated by their nicknames, like Mighty Steel Leg and Iron Head) lend themselves to the swift interplay of the world's most popular game. Along the way, the team's leader (Hong Kong comic superstar Stephen Chow) meets a sticky bun baker (Vicki Zhao) whose kung fu is the equal of any of his teammates. Shaolin Soccer is supremely silly--in the final match, their opponents are called Team Evil--but that's part of the fun. American movies rarely achieve this perfect balance of the absurd and the sincere."

The movie is rated PG-13 for action violence and thematic elements. For more information on Screenland Theatre, visit Screenland's Web site. To see a movie trailer of "Shaolin Soccer," visit the movie's Web site.

Read Robert Butler's review in the Kansas City Star. Click here.

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