Barça Moved up to Select 'B'

After 3 months of research, conversation, discussion (heated at times), and lots of thought & reflection, Alfredo Valente (CMFSC head coach), Peter Price (CMFSC Director of select boys and President of Lower Mainland Select League), Ken Roughead (Westminster District 5 District representative), and the Barça coaching staff have decided to move our Coquitlam Metro-Ford SC Barca ‘96 team up into the U14 Select ‘B’ division that will participate in the second tier of U14 Select or "Metro" level. We firmly believe that this is the right level that will challenge our team to meet their potential now and in the future.

Barça was to stay in their own age group for the first time but with other '96 teams hoping to catch up with Barça developmental theology and taking advantage of pulling players up and down from the A and B divisions, it would be detrimental to play in the U13 Gold division with the strongest '96 teams playing up.

Barça will be one of three Coquitlam Metro-Ford teams representing the Westminster District in the U14 Select divisions. Coquitlam Metro-Ford Sparta '95 is the top team and play in the Select 'A' division while Barça '96 and Bayern '95 will both play in the Select 'B' division. Sparta '95 can pull players from both Bayern '95 and Barça to help fill their team roster throughout the season.

Barça will play in the U14 Select 'A' division next year as the representative from the Westminster District and compete for the chance to represent BC at the Canadian National.