Local soccer players win league championship with Calgary club

By Lethbridge Herald on November 7, 2022.

From left, Luca Tams, Charley Indzeoski and Dasha Tuckova celebrated their U15 league champoinship win with their Calgary Foothills soccer club teammates at a special event last week.

By Justin Seward

Lethbridge Herald

Local soccer players Dasha Tuckova, Charley Indzeoski and Luca Tams along with their teammates from the Calgary Foothills U15 girls team finally got the opportunity to celebrate the championship trophy last Thursday after winning the league last month.

The championship was won because Foothills boasted a record of 15-1.

“It felt pretty great,” said Tuckova.

Five of the six Foothills teams won their respective championships in the 2022 outdoor season.

“Apparently before I went to Foothills, they weren’t winning that many games, like at all,” said Tuckova, who arrived in 2021 to Foothills from the Calgary Blizzard.

“So it was a pretty big surprise when we started winning all those games. I think it started in a tournament last November in Edmonton, and we won all of them but one. So we got second, and then  I think our confidence built from there. So when the (2022)outdoor season started, we were pumped.”

Tuckova credits the Foothills coaching change to Colin MacKay, who is an assistant coach with Mount Royal Cougars women’s team, for the successful season.

“I mean I didn’t know the other one that well, but they said he wasn’t that strict and he wasn’t that hard on the girls to practice more,” said Tuckova.

“And then this guy came and they (the players) weren’t really  like scared of him, they were just kind of intimidated. So they went in to practice more and (tried) harder, I guess. They just liked his coaching style a lot more and his tactics.”

The club is a part of the Alberta Youth Soccer League, who places a focus on creating a competitive development environment and  provides opportunities for players to develop at the highest level of youth soccer in Alberta.

AYSL consists of nine clubs between Calgary and Edmonton at the U14 to U16 level.

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