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The club is seeking boys age 13-14 for a soccer team to compete in the annual European Youth Maccabi Games scheduled July 11-18, 1991, in Marseilles. If such a team is formed, it will be the first Detroit Mac- cabi team ever to be invited to the European Games and the only team from the Western Hemisphere par- ticipating. A soccer team tryout has been scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Jan. 13 at the Maple-Drake Jewish Community Center. Candidates will be tested on kicking, passing, scrimmag- ing and general ball- handling skills, according to Alan Horowitz, Detroit Mac- cabi sports coordinator. The Detroit team also would spend five days in London as guests of the British Maccabi Club, who arranged the invitation for the Detroit club. The Detroit youngsters would stay with, and play against, the Eng- lish team and also would tour London, Horowitz said. The two teams then would travel to Marseilles, Horowitz added. The trip would be July 4-20 at a cost of about $1,500 per athlete. Horowitz didn't know whether any Detroit Mac- cabi scholarships would be available. "This is the first time we've been invited to send any kind of team overseas," he said. Jay Robinson, general chairman of the Detroit Club, was ecstatic. "This is unbelievable," he said. "If we don't get a team together, it'll be criminal. I'm afraid people won't understand what a great trip this is." Robinson said the Euro- pean Games will have teams from "every European coun- try — teams from the Soviet Union, England, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Greece — all Jewish kids from all over Europe." The invitation resulted from Detroit's hosting of last summer's JCC-North American Maccabi Youth Games, in which England participated. When Henry Minkoff and Stuart Lustigman, the British team's manager and delegation head, asked Robinson in August about the likelihood of Detroit's sending a team to the Euro- pean Games next summer, "I said we weren't entitled to go, and they said 'Well, what if we got you a special invitation?' " recalled Robin- son. "Special invitation? Are you kidding? We'd jump at that," Robinson responded. So Minkoff and Lustignian got permission to invite Detroit. Parents or players seeking additional information can call Horowitz, 737-0639. ❑ Dates, Costs Told For Other Trips Here are the approx- imate dates and costs of two other proposed trips announced earlier for Detroit Maccabi Club athletes: A 12-to-14-day trip to England and Scotland for a high school-age boys' soccer team (up to 18- year-olds) would be from about the last week in June through the first week in July and cost about $1,500 per player, according to Alan Horowitz, Detroit Mac- cabi sports coordinator. A proposed 7-to-10-day East Coast bus trip for Detroit girls' softball and boys' basketball teams to Washington, D.C., New Jersey, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and possibly Toronto would cost about $750 per player. They could be scheduled anytime during the summer, except for the Aug. 18-22 regional JCC- Maccabi Games to be played simultaneously in Wayne, N.J., Cleveland and Omaha. In both trips, Detroit teams would play against, and be hosted by, their Maccabi counterparts in those cities, Horowitz said. A Detroit volleyball team and the soccer team might join the East Coast trip, particularly if the latter doesn't go to England and Scotland. Horowitz said a meeting is being set up for parents and athletes Jan. 13 to discuss these trips. — R.P.