Children's Soccer Clubs: On week nights, the field is permitted to the Toronto Eagles Soccer Club on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday nights from 6 to 9, and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3p.m. They are a huge club: they have 74 house league teams and 15 Rep/All-star teams. Co-ordinator Joe Silva told us that one of their Rep (competitive) teams is an adult women's team. He said that as of the last day of March they had almost 1000 kids registered for the Eagles. Another 200 spaces were still available with the warm weather arriving. The cost is $95 for house league. Most of the coaches are also volunteers (mainly parents). Registration for the remaining spaces continues on Wednesdays from 6 to 9 p.m. and Saturdays from 9a.m. to 12 noon, at the Eagles' clubhouse at 779 Crawford Street (the old rink change house, the building right beside the rink just north of Alex Duff Pool). Contact information On Thursdays the Portugal 2004 Soccer Club has the field permit from 6 to 10. "Portugal 2004" is so named because the Euro Cup tournament is taking place in Portugal next year. Nataly Barros-Vilela, their co-ordinator, told us that their soccer club started very small in 2000 but now they have 10 house league teams and 5 competitive teams. Their players range in age from 4 to 16, and this year there will be two girls' teams too. In the cold weather they play at the St.Raymond's School gym (on Barton just at the north of Christie Pits), and that's also where kids can go to sign up - Friday nights between 7 and 9p.m. For $90 kids also get shorts, a jersey, and socks. The coaches are all volunteers. Some are parents and some are older high school students who are putting in their mandatory 40 hours of community service, and learning how to referee or coach at the same time. To get in touch with the Portugal 2004 soccer club, call 416 537-2233.   Back