Club Soccer

BALTIMORE KICKERS SOCCER PROGRAM

     Since its founding in 1953, soccer has been the heart of the Baltimore

Kickers. The mission statement of the club was to promote fellowship and the

German Culture through the playing of soccer. Today, the Kickers still offer an

adult male unlimited team and an adult male Over 40 team, but we are about to

embark on a sponsorship with a girls’ team that plays in the Soccer Without

Borders program. This is a very new and exciting development in the Kickers

Soccer Program.

Soccer Without Borders is a program which has been around since 2010

and have chapters in various cities throughout the United States where there are

large populations of legal immigrants to this country. They use soccer as a

means of assimilating the children of these immigrants into American Society.

The children attend American schools, learn to speak English, learn American

customs and are mentored by the coaches of the teams organized by the Soccer

Without Borders program. They are a 501C3 organization that relies on

donations to run their business. The team the Kickers will sponsor are made of

young women from African and Latin countries and most attend the school,

Vanguard Academy, which is right down the street from our clubhouse. The girls

will be of senior high school age.

We will still have our men’s unlimited team which will now play at Spring

Grove State Hospital grounds on Sunday nights at 8:30 PM and our Over 40

men’s team which plays on Tuesday nights in Anne Arundel County. One notion

I want to clarify to our members and others is that the youth team will be

supported by Kickers Club funds while the men’s teams are self-supported.

Since the COVID days of 2020, to relieve some financial burden on the Club, the

men’s program has been funded by the players and private donations.

If anyone is interested in watching our teams play, the schedules and other

soccer related information will continue to be posted on the website. If anyone

is interested in trying out or has a question on soccer, please contact the Club

Soccer Manager, Fran McGrath at mcgrath494@aol.com or at 410-530-2018.

History of Baltimore Kicker's Soccer Program