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Edmonton U-11 soccer team’s $40K tournament fund vanishes — along with coach | Globalnews.ca

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The Selects Football Club U11 tier 1 boy's soccer team was set to participate in the Las Vegas Mayor’s Cup International Showcase this upcoming weekend, Feb. 15-17 .

The team had raised around $60,000 to attend the tournament, plus some parents had put extra money into the bank account to cover extra the cost of flights for extra family members.

It's not known for sure what happened to the money but the coach, who had been with the team for a few years , is now nowhere to be found.

Edmonton Selects Football Club has launched a GoFundMe to try and raise new funds to attend a tournament in the future.

As of Wednesday evening , it had raised over $ 19,000 .

The president of the Mayor’s Cup has already told the Selects their entry fee will be waived for the 2026 tournament.

Global News attempted to track down the coach to hear his side of the story, but have been unable to reach him.

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