Detroit's
Maccabi soccer
team has
performed well
this year,
inside and out

Andy Dennison closes in for a shot on goal.

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'Jeff Rosenbloom tellies a drink.

Dennison (13) battles for the ball.

MIKE ROSENBAUM

Special to The Jewish News

Jeff Levine and Dave Stone take a breather.

he 1985 Maccabiah
Youth Games in Toronto
are history, but friend-
ships have kept Detroit's
Maccabi Club spccer team together.
Thirteen of those 16 players wrap-
ped up an eight-week indoor soccer
league season last month, and the
team will compete in at least two
outdoor tournaments this spring
and summer.
The soccer team that traveled
to the Toronto Games last year was
coached by Ed Raykhinshteyn, a
Russian emigre and political sci-.
ence major at Oakland University.
"Before they played in Toronto,"

said Raykhinshteyn, "I asked them
if they wanted to play indoors after
the Maccabi Games. All of them
said `no.' But after the Toronto
games they all said they wanted to
play together. So they became
friends."
The team's closeness helped
them post a surprisingly strong 3-2
record in Toronto. They lost in the
playoffs to a Bogota, Columbia
squad. Detroit beat teams from San
Diego, Los Angeles and Cleveland.
"They really did well," said their
coach. "They did a helluva lot bet-
ter than anybody expected us to
do."
The team's indoor season was
played at Total Soccer East in
Royal Oak, in the 19-and-under A

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