For nearly three years, a group of Edmonton children have hustled to raise tens of thousands of dollars to attend a once-in-a-lifetime soccer tournament in the United States.
But now, just days before the U-11 team was set to leave, most of that money is gone and so is the coach.
“These kids, nine and 10-year-old kids, for the last two-and-a-half years have done hundreds of bottle drives and sold thousands of boxes of World’s Finest chocolates,” said father Adam Scorgie. “We’ve done pub nights. We’ve done all these things.
“They raised close to $60,000 and we were supposed to leave Friday morning to go to Vegas.”
The Selects Football Club U11 tier 1 boy’s soccer team was set to participate in the Las…