The Tri-City Walking Soccer Club gets together for pick-up matches every Tuesday at Gates Park in Port Coquitlam.
The Tri-City Walking Soccer Club is proof in the pudding: you can take the players out of soccer, but you’ll never take the soccer out of the players.
The club started several years ago as an adjunct to the Dartmen, an affiliation of weekend warriors who’ve grown old together playing sports like traditional running soccer as well as baseball and hockey.
As members started to hit their mid-50s, many realized they were losing their stride. But instead of giving up sport altogether, they just decided to slow it down.
Walking soccer is just like it sounds, a modified version of “the beautiful game” without contact and played at a pace more comfortable for aging knees and joints.
It’s also played seven-aside on a smaller pitch — about half the size of a regular soccer field — at Port Coquitlam’s Gates Park…
If you’re interested in joining the Tri-City Walking Soccer Club, you can email Swelander directly jimswelander@hotmail.com
Full story and interviews: https://www.tricitynews.com/local-news/photos-even-at-a-slower-pace-these-tri-city-soccer-players-still-have-love-for-the-game-7869662
Author: The Walking Football
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