Toledo youth football team gears up for National Championship in Atlanta

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) – After a outstanding season, the Toledo Mid-Metropolis Steelers are making ready to move to Atlanta, Georgia for the convention’s nationwide championship subsequent week.

The group, which is a part of the Toledo Elite Scholar Athletes group, has labored exhausting on and off the sector making ready the boys and educating them life expertise.

“One of many issues that we wish to construct is respectful younger males. Certainly one of our core values is integrity, there are some issues that you would be able to’t take away integrity and being respectful and being form,” stated Head Coach Thomas Walker.

Walker stated iron sharpens iron, and it’s essential to provide the gamers optimistic position fashions.

“Some have each mother and father, and a few of them don’t. A few of them dwell with their granny, and a few of them dwell in foster care. It simply relies upon. We’re right here to deal with them equally and assist them out, some children want extra assist than others. My ardour, my obsession is to provide me again to the younger males simply in order that they know that they may have a useful resource,” Walker stated.

Walker stated the group has offered a way of household for the gamers.

”I feel soccer is simply a type of assets that pull collectively as a household, it’s unity, it’s educating them accountability, and dedication. Something in life that you just do, whether or not it’s changing into a lawyer or a physician or a banker no matter it’s, you’re gonna need to put the exhausting work in to do it,” Walker stated.

In contrast to a few of their opponents, the Mid-Metropolis Steelers have been exhausting at work all year long. ”We’ve been working basically since march having 7 on 7′s, going out of city, having preseason video games, and having scrimmages,” Walker stated.

The group has been fundraising to pay for the journey to Atlanta, and are virtually at their aim, click on right here to assist the Mid-Metropolis Steelers’ journey to Atlanta.

The group’s middle Larry Morris stated the sport plan is straightforward.

” Simply go down there and win each sport, we hope for that,” Morris stated.

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