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Dear GOAL Indoor, My town has a healthy youth soccer organization. Although we are only 60,000 people, there are over 300,000 within a 30minute drive. There is no indoor soccer facility at this time. I have been talking with several people about the possibility of opening one. I grew up playing in Memphis, TN, and we saw several soccer only facilities close within the first few years due to financial troubles. I played at one facility in Jackson, MS, that also had a gym, pool and workout facility. It has done well. What do you think are the keys to success for such a facility. Population, expenses, rates to charge, size, amenities, etc.? Thank you, Ben, AR Dear Ben, The $1 million question! We suggest your completing USIndoor's online request for information, located on our "Facilities" page and marking the box for a consultant. Before embarking on any venture of such magnitude, it makes good business sense to conduct a feasibility study and to glean as much as possible from the experts who have walked down the path you are steering for. Dear GOAL Indoor, Wow! What a great site! My husband and I are looking into starting an indoor soccer club in North Carolina. I am a huge soccer fan indoors and out. I was first introduced to indoor soccer when the Athletic Clubhouse opened in Maryland several years ago. (That is where I grew up.) Mr. Bill Cassidy, a wonderful role model for any child, was my ref co-ordinator. He taught the classes and administered the classes where I earned my first reffing badge and job. I started reffing indoors soon after, but noticed that not all facilities had the same rules, I am so glad that things are starting to change! I have been out of the soccer loop since I got married 5 years ago, followed soon by 3 children. I would really like to jump back in, hopefully landing on two feet! Would you all have any ideas on where to start looking for information on how to open an indoor soccer arena? I am definitely going to order your book of rules and get together with the local reffing association here. If we ever get up and running... do you all send folks down here to train or do we send our folks to you? I know so many questions! Thank you so much for any advise! Kriston, NC Dear Kriston, Thank you for your compliments. If you could complete the online request for information, located on USIndoorʼs online "Facilities" page, we can begin to guide you In this s a reader of GOAL Indoor, you are used Indoor to getting a wide variety of news and information about indoor soccer from a single source. You get updates on the MISL and national youth and amateur tournaments, tips on how to start a facility or improve the one you've got, lessons on refereeing, advice on making you more physically fit, and news and debates about interesting variations on the game, to name a few. In this issue, we present an indoor facility that has taken a similar approach. It does not merely offer indoor soccer, although RexPlex maintains that with its four boarded fields, it remains its core activity. RexPlex offers something for everyone–and then some: from basketball, to football, hockey, Paint Ball, corporate meetings, A e trust that you think of GOAL Indoor also as doing a lot of things right–and that you will let us know how we can serve you even better during 2003. 2002 has been a great year for USIndoor, for GOAL Indoor and for the indoor soccer industry as a whole. We expect 2003 to be even better. If you have been reading USIndoor's bi-monthly reports contained within these pages, you know what I mean. Thank you for your support. Have a safe, healthy, and happy holiday season . . . from all of us at the United States boxing, concerts, a skate park, Indoor Soccer Association and amusements, to name a and a GOAL Indoor. Indoor Faithfully yours, few. While beyond the grasp of many of the "wannabe" facility operators out there, we regarded Rexplex still as an interesting story in how to do a lot of Don Shapero things right–if you have the President, USIndoor resources. W GOAL INDOOR SUBSCRIPTION RATES $15.00 - ONE YEAR; $25 - TWO YEARS. SUBSCRIBE ON-LINE AT USINDOOR.COM GOAL Indoor (ISSN -1540-5400) is a bi-monthly publication of the US INDOOR SOCCER ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 6569, Arlington, VA, 22206 E-Mail: pr@usindoor.com Fax: (509) 357-7096 www.usindoor.com Application to mail at periodical rate is pending at Arlington, VA, and additional post offices. POSTMASTER, PLEASE SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO GOAL INTERNATIONAL, 1510 11th Street, #203, SANTA MONICA, CA 90401. Phone: (310) 451-3803 COLUMNISTS: Rudi Bianchi. Arianna Criscione, Frances Hambidge, Carol Jago, Des Jamieson, Charlie Kadupski, Benoît d'Oloron, Bruno Spalazzi, Sydney Nusinov, Sylvie Green, Dave Litterer, Don Shapero ARTIST: John Shaver CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS: Kurt Norton, JandC Imaging, Phil Stephens ADVERTISING RATES NATIONAL ADVERTISING: G O A L I n d o o r • Dec.-Jan. 2002 • 5

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