MLS Real Salt Lake

RSL players visit six local elementary schools for "Welcome Back to School!" program

Published on August 1, 2005 under Major League Soccer (MLS)
Real Salt Lake News Release


SALT LAKE CITY (Monday, August 1, 2005) - Real Salt Lake and the Salt Lake City School District today kicked off the innovative "Welcome Back to School!" incentive program by honoring students who attended the first day of school at six Salt Lake City-area institutions, including Franklin, Rose Park, Whittier, Meadowlark, Bennion and Parkview elementary schools. The RSL players who appeared today in support of the sponsored-ticket program unveiled last week were:

Player School Address

FW Jason Kreis Parkview Elementary 970 South Emery Street

MF Clint Mathis Bennion Elementary 429 South 800 East

MF Brian Kamler Meadowlark Elementary 497 North Morton Drive

DF Nelson Akwari Rose Park Elementary 1105 West 1000 North

DF Brian Dunseth Franklin Elementary 1115 West 300 South

MF Clint Mathis Bennion Elementary 429 South 800 East

Last Tuesday, SLC School District Superintendent Dr. McKell Withers and Real Salt Lake General Manager Steve Pastorino announced the joint "Welcome Back to School!" program, with several Utah-area companies, including SuperCuts, Stevens-Henager College and Dick's Sporting Goods, stepping forward in support of the ticket/attendance initiative, subsidizing the cost of the sponsored tickets for qualifying students.

"SuperCuts is excited to partner with Real Salt Lake and the Salt Lake City School District," said SuperCuts Area Supervisor Margean Hammar. "SuperCuts wants to help kids look their best when they come back to school after the summer. Performance increases when kids look and feel good about themselves. Real Salt Lake is a great asset to the sense of community here in our area, and we are happy to participate in programs like this. "

The "Welcome Back to School!" ticket/attendance program is the first step of many between the two entities, as RSL players will appear in the remaining 30 school campuses on Wednesday, August 24 in support of the program. The Sierra Mist "Dribble, Pass and Score" competition - Major League Soccer's free youth skills contest - will be installed in the physical education curricula of each school, while RSL players will make regular visits to various age groups and discuss a variety of topics throughout the fall on an education/teamwork tour.

"Education is a challenge for many young people in our community," said Stevens-Henager College President Carol Gastiger. "But with our support of the ‘Back to School' program, we hope that the sponsored tickets will encourage students to attend school and to achieve great results."

LENNOX LOOKING TO HEAT UP

NORTH GOAL FANS WITH scoring-related giveaways

Five Lucky Fans to Win Residential Heating/Cooling Makeover Valued at $5,000

or Private Instructional Clinics by Inaugural North-end Goalscorer

SALT LAKE CITY (Monday, August 1, 2005) - Lennox, Inc., distributors of residential and commercial heating and cooling systems and one of 37 Real Salt Lake corporate partners, will reward hundreds of lucky fans in attendance at upcoming Rice-Eccles Stadium Major League Soccer games when the first-ever goal is scored in the stadium's north end.

"The Loyalists, the Jesters, the Rogue Cavaliers Brigade and all the passionate, knowledgeable and incredible fans that have supported professional soccer in Salt Lake City deserve to be rewarded," said Brent Shafer, Lennox Salt Lake District Manager. "With such a quirky and seemingly statistically impossible trend happening between the two goals at Rice-Eccles, one being very HOT, the other being very COLD, we thought this would be a fun promotion which reflects both our business and our enjoyment of professional soccer."

During Real Salt Lake's nine regular-season and one exhibition home games, all 16 of the team's goals have been scored at the "HOT" south goal, with none finding the back of the net at the "COLD" north goal. During the team's last outing, a 3-0 win over Western Conference leaders FC Dallas, Real Salt Lake thrilled the home crowd with three goals in the game's first 30 minutes, courtesy of DF Brian Dunseth (2nd minute), FW Jordan Cila (25th) and MF Clint Mathis, whose 30th-minute blast was named the league's Sierra Mist Goal of the Week, his second such honor during the last three weeks. Amazingly, that Pioneer Day victory constituted the first time in 10 games this season that RSL attacked the south goal during the first half.

Beginning with this Saturday's 4:00 p.m. kickoff, televised live nationally on ESPN2 against expansion brethren CD Chivas USA, Lennox will look to reward the thousands of fans who traditionally sell out the north end and "heat up" that goal by randomly giving away a residential heating/cooling makeover, valued at $5,000, or five private instructional clinics conducted by the RSL player that breaks the goalscoring ice in the north end.

After the inaugural north end goal is scored, Lennox will kick five full-size soccer balls into the stands, along with 200 mini-balls. Five prize-winning balls will be distributed in the bunch as part of the promotion, which will run for each remaining RSL regular-season home game. The remaining 2005 RSL home schedule is as follows:

DAY DATE OPPONENT TIME (MT)

Sat. Aug. 6 vs. CD Chivas USA 4:00

Sat. Aug. 13 vs. Kansas City Wizards 7:30

Sat. Aug. 20 vs. San Jose Earthquakes 7:30

Sat. Sept. 3 vs. New England Revolution 7:30

Sat. Sept. 24 vs. Columbus Crew 7:30

Wed. Oct. 5 vs. D.C. United 7:30

Wed. Oct. 12 vs. Colorado Rapids 7:30

REAL SALT LAKE RESERVES TO BATTLE UTAH MEN'S AMATEUR TEAM IN SLC: Real Salt Lake reserves will face a local Utah Men's Amateur Team tomorrow, Tuesday, August 2 at 6:00 p.m. MT at Ute Soccer Field on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City, Utah. RSL's previous in-state reserve exhibition game was a 4-0 victory over the Utah Men's Select Team on June 12 for the second time this season. RSL reserves have a 4-1-0 exhibition record with its only loss coming against the Seattle Sounders in Seattle, Wash., on May 11 in the battle of the Besagno brothers.

The RSL reserves (1-5-1, 4 pts.) picked up its first reserve league win of the season in a 5-2 victory over the Chivas USA reserves (1-6-0, 3 pts.) on July 10 at University Field 1 at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif.

RSL started aggressively with the first goal coming in the 5th minute by FW Dante Washington. Chivas USA tied the game in the 15th minute with a goal from FW Milton Blanco. Just three minutes later, FW Jordan Cila scored his second goal of the season in the 18th minute to put RSL up a goal. DF Michael Lookingland notched his second goal of the season and RSL's third of the game off an assist from MF Leslie Fitzpatrick in the 29th minute. Washington tallied his fourth goal of the season in the 36th minute ending the first half 4-1.

In the second half, RSL started where they finished the first half. Cila added his second assist of the season as he fed MF Luke Kreamalmeyer who fired home RSL's fifth goal of the game in the 50th minute. MF Mike Muñoz scored the second Chivas USA goal in the 84th minute ending the game 5-2.

2005 REAL SALT LAKE RESERVE SEASON SCHEDULE

as of 8/01/05 (dates and times subject to change)

Day Date Matchup Time (MT) Result (scorers) Pts./Place

Sun. Apr. 10 at Los Angeles Galaxy L 2-4 (Cila 10, Watson 73) 0 /

Sat. Apr. 16 vs. Colorado Rapids T 2-2 (Behncke 45, Cutler 55) 1 / 12

Wed. Apr. 27 at Brigham Young University W 3-1 (Kreamalmeyer 29, Knowles 80, Acosta 82)

Sun. Apr. 15 vs. Los Angeles Galaxy L 1-3 (Lookingland 53) 1 / 12

Wed. May 11 at Seattle Sounders L 0-1

Sun. May 22 at Columbus Crew L 2-5 (O'Brien 54, Washington 89) 1 / 12

Tues. May 24 at Utah Men's Select Team W 4-0 (Selolwane (2), Watson, Acosta)

Sun. June 5 vs. FC Dallas L 2-3 (Washington 22, Behncke 37) 1 / 12

Sun. June 12 at Utah Men's Select Team W 4-0 (Kreamalmeyer (2), Watson, Trembly)

Sun. June 19 at San Jose Earthquakes L 1-3 (Watson 28) 1 / 12

Wed. June 29 at Spokane Shadow W 2-0 (Behncke 38, Selolwane 75)

Sun. July 10 at CD Chivas USA W 5-2 (Washington 5, Cila 18, Lookingland 29, Washington 36, Kreamalmeyer 50) 4 / 11

Tues. Aug. 2 vs. Utah Men's Amateur Team 6:00 p.m.

Sun. Sept. 21 vs. San Jose Earthquake 10:00 a.m.

Sun. Oct. 4 vs. New England Revolutions 10:00 a.m.

Sun. 0ct. 18 at FC Dallas 2:30 p.m.

Sun. Oct. 25 vs. Columbus Crew 10:00 a.m.

Sun. Nov. 2 at Colorado Rapids 10:00 a.m.

REVISED TRAINING SCHEDULE FOR WEEK OF July 31, 2005:

**All practices are open to Media members. All times and locations are subject to change. Please contact the Real Salt Lake Media Relations Department at 801.924.8584 to confirm times and venues.

DAY/DATE SITE TIME (MT)

Tuesday, August 2 Rice-Eccles Stadium 9:00 a.m.

Wednesday, August 3 Rice-Eccles Stadium 9:00 a.m.

Thursday, August 4 Rice-Eccles Stadium 4:00 p.m.

Friday, August 5 Rice-Eccles Stadium 10:00 a.m.

Saturday, August 6 GAME vs. Chivas USA 4:00 p.m.

@ Rice-Eccles Stadium

CABRERA & RAMIREZ TO PERFORM POST-GAME AUTOGRAPH SESSION ON AUGUST 6: RSL fans who purchase 10 corner flag tickets at $15 each to the next home game against Chivas USA on Saturday, August 6 will receive a special invitation to a post-game autograph session featuring Chivas USA MF Ramon Ramirez and RSL's Guatemalan addition DF Gustavo Cabrera as part of the day's Budweiser Hispanic Heritage Night celebration. To purchase tickets to the post-game autograph session, please call Real Salt Lake at (866) 9-SOCCER or log onto https://secure.mlsnet.com/MLS/rsl/tickets/2005/autograph/ for more details.

JOIN THE JUNIOR LOYALISTS: RSL invites local youth fans ages 14 and under to join the RSL Kids Club, known as the Chevron Junior Loyalists! The next replica giveaway will be on Saturday, August 13 where registered Jr. Loyalist members will receive FREE replica Real Salt Lake socks and shinguards! Kids 14 and under can sign-up to be a Jr. Loyalist at more than 90 participating Chevron locations along the Wasatch Front. The Kansas City Wizards game represents the third of five Junior Loyalist "build-a-uniform" dates, with the other RSL memorabilia nights as follows:

DAY/DATE OPPONENT GIVEAWAY

Saturday, Aug. 13 Kansas City Replica socks / shinguards

Saturday, Sept. 3 New England RSL soccer ball

Saturday, Sept. 24 Columbus RSL uniform bag

Pick up a registration form at any of the more than 90 Wasatch Front Chevron locations!

RSL'S FLEX PLAN SEASON TICKET OPTION STILL AVAILABLE: To add more options for fans, RSL continues to offer the Flex Season Ticket Package, which is comprised of twenty vouchers of the same price category (North Goal, Corner Flag, Premium and VIP) that allows the purchaser to determine which games they would like to see in the regular season and how many tickets needed for that game. Prices for the 2005 Flex Package are $260 for the North Goal, $320 for the Corner Flag, $440 for the East Sideline and $560 for the VIP seats. Tickets can be redeemed in the following way: one could use all the vouchers and bring 20 people to one game or 4 people could attend five games. Flex vouchers are discounted from the day of game pricing making it an even greater value. Vouchers can be redeemed in advance through the Real Salt Lake Front Office by mail or in person or on the day of the game at the Real Salt Lake Customer Service Window. Seating is best available per price category at the time of redemption.

ACCESS REAL: Real fans can now receive up-to-date information on the team by signing up for the RSL Weekly Newsletter on our website at http://real.saltlake.mlsnet.com/MLS/rsl/fans/.

MLS CAMPS: MLS Camps, the Official Camp and Clinic of Major League Soccer, has partnered with Real Salt Lake to provide Packaged Camps, Clinic & Training Services and Supply Opportunities to the Greater Utah Community. To host a Program in your community, call (800) 680-6272 or by logging onto www.MLScamps.com and register for a program near you.

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