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Good Bernie, good Mornie, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome

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in his time. Now for our
community connection right here on K one,

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the one you trust. And today
we have miss Drew up Brodovich, the

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chairman. How are we doing here, Berica? How are you doing today?

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Doing good? Sir? Thank you
for having me. Well, this

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is great. You're with the Bartlesville
Buffaloes and that is a a semi pro

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soccer team. Correct, yes,
that is correct. You will be funded

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soccer club in Barnsville, Oklahoma.
Uh huh. It is an amateur soccer

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club that competes or will be competing
in the UPSL League, which is an

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amateur national amateur United Premier Soccer league
that consists of a little over four hundred

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teams nationally that is broken down into
regions and then further into conferences. And

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we will be starting our season next
Saturday, April sixth. My goodness sake,

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this is pretty exciting. And of
course you play a pretty good schedule.

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How long did your season last?
Yeah, so the season is going

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to start the first week of April
and last at least the regular season is

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going to last mid June and then
late June. We get the conference playoffs,

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which we hope that we're going to
be part of. Oh, you'll

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be there and moving into July the
regional conference and then the national Championship or

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the Final four is going to be
in August. Tell us a little bit

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about the team and its mission and
competition, just a few things that folks

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really would like to know. Yeah, so this idea of forming a club

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in Bardos will have really been on
our minds for a couple of years now.

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With the four of us that have
established the organization are all Oklahoma Western

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alumnis that came from overseas, and
you know, being removed from playing the

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game for a couple of years really
not necessarily took a toll on us,

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but we really wanted to go back
into it and finally built our own careers,

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establish our families within the Bartersweoll community. And this was a perfect timing

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for us to go on this endeavor
and start something cool, hopefully for the

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community. And you, now I
have a question for you. You believe

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that you were at Wesleyan right now, right, You've got a beautiful facility

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there for soccer, wonderful. You
even had some of the tournaments I guess

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a couple of years ago held out
there at Wesley. But now just right

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up the road over here at the
Daniels Park. That's a beautiful setup.

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It will you be playing there?
Where would you be playing? So our

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practices are going to be at Oklahoma
Western Fields. We have a good relationship

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obviously with the leadership at Oklahoma Esseleyan
being alumnis, so we're going to be

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practicing there, but all of our
games are going to be at the Custer

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Stadium. A wow at the high
school under the lights there you go,

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Yes, sir, the high school
leadership has been very kind and generous to

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us to allow us to play there, and shout out to their leadership.

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We really appreciate that and we can't
wait to start. Well, this is

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great now. The mission is basically
to kind of regroup, get healthy,

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and have fun and have spirited competition, isn't it? Yes, sir,

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and I think primarily we would like
to build just a little better landscape of

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opportunities for younger generations when it comes
to you know, high schoolers aspiring to

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play collegiately or maybe college players aspiring
to play professionally, you know, just

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to have the avenue in Barta as
well to be able to compete at a

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little higher level than what they're used
to. You know, we come,

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like I mentioned, from overseas,
from soccer culture, and you know in

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the neighborhoods you get to play against
people that are twice your age against you

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know, your dad, your grandpa, and you know their friends, and

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just the camaraderie you know, that
is built throughout those opportunities and just I

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think really the toughness and the opportunity
for development in playing against older people,

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you know, at a faster pace. It allows really a huge opportunity and

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we would love to be able to
provide that for kids here in bartiswaw wow,

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this is going to be a great
opportunity. And you call yourself the

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Bartlesviill Buffaloes, which is pretty dark
cool. So I'm looking at this.

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I understand that you're holding some clinics. Is this for all ages or for

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just the children or it is for
ages five to sixteen? Now if you

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are a little under five, you
absolutely can you know, swing by and

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you know, have fun. But
we are trying to do the clinics.

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Each weekend when we have our games, we will play our games I think

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on three Saturdays and two Sundays,
but all of our clinics are going to

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be on Saturdays. Okay. We
have been partnering with Washington County Soccer Club.

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They can allow us to kind of
chime in onto their fields, and

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the slot for all of our clinics
are going to be eleven thirty to twelve

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thirty on Saturdays. And I believe
the first Saturday we're doing is the April

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sixth, Oh Wow, which is
going to be yes, sir, next

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Saturday. And our first home game
is going to be April sixth at five

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point thirty at the Custer Stateium.
Wow. This is great that you're getting

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out there and you're telling folks about
it. Folks are welcome to come out

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and watch, aren't they. Absolutely, it'd be great if you had an

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audience. Yes, I mean,
and I think that's the whole purpose of

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just engaging the community to see if
you know, how many people are going

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to show up to watch soccer.
And I think especially for the kidos and

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you know that are considering playing at
a higher level, just by watching soccer,

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you can also develop a lot and
you know, even if you're you

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know, maybe not up to the
port in a current situation that you want

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to play and commit to the team. Just by coming out and watching in

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itself is going to hopefully provide a
great value to you know, them as

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individuals in their development. Now,
I was telling you off the year that

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my familiarity with soccer became like front
and center. When I went to college.

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I was a baseball player. But
one of my friends, one of

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my classmates from another class he was
from from Europe. He says, you

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ought to try this football And I
said, well, I don't think they

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have that in physical education. He
said, no, no, no real

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football. He met soccer and I
tried it. I'm going to tell you,

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wow, got in shape in a
hurry, had to to keep up

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with it. That's a fast game, it really is, and it's an

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endurance if nothing else too. Absolutely, absolutely, I mean he can be

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it. Really. It depends also
on what level you play, you know,

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in the pace that you play with. But every sport obviously has a

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skill set its skill sets, absolutely, especially when it comes to fitness as

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well. But now as an adult, I watch it on TV and I

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really enjoy it and I kind of
pulled for a team every now and then.

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I really don't know the teams except
for the ones in the United Kingdom,

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but the World teams not all that
familiar with them. But you find

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yourself watching a game with two teams
you don't have any knowledge of, and

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suddenly you're pulling for one or the
other because it started to get exciting.

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And I think the World Cup has
a lot to do with that and the

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highlight that has been put on that
on TV and media as well, certainly,

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And like we mentioned off air,
I mean the momentum that has you

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know, that soccer has had for
you a few decades now in the United

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States is huge, and especially now
with huge competitions being played at the United

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in the United States across the United
States and a lot of these huge European

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stars coming into the game here to
you know, show their talents, and

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you know, it's been a huge, I think, huge momentum for US

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soccer and hopefully we can be a
small part of it as well. Well.

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I think he came to the right
place. You can't go past the

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soccer fields on the weekend here in
this town without just seeing it shoulder to

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shoulder, moms and dads and kids
and just trying to find a good spot

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to see the game and trying to
find a place to park. And it

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just really looks like a nice fun
out for everyone, not only the participants

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but also the spectators. They get
a kick out of it. There did

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they get a kick out of it. But it's it's really good. It's

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really good. Now, do you
have a Facebook page or maybe a a

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website where folks can learn more about
you? We do have Facebook page,

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Instagram page, and a website as
well, all over the place. We

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tried to be. You know,
the the website is f bars will uh

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dot com, se barterswell dot com. And you know what, I forgot

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our Facebook page? Well just put
it into Google. It'll be there.

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It'll be there. And but yeah, we'll try to be you know,

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many places as we can be,
especially in you know, today's social media

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environment. And uh, but yeah, I mean, if you're interested in

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playing, if you're interested in just
coming and supporting, obviously everybody's invited.

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Uh you know you said you may
possibly be trying out as well. I

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have pounds first, but yeah,
sure, but yeah, it is,

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it is truly for everybody. Doesn't
really matter the age as long as you're

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over fifteen, you can be part
of the team and we would love to

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have you. Like I said,
it brings at least a little bit of

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value to you to play against more
experienced players that have you know, some

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of our players have played professionally overseas. I bet they could, And you

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know, it's just I think it's
a great opportunity for younger generations. And

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you know, I think ultimately we
joke around, but ultimately, ultimately,

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if we can build this and being
able to sustain it, hopefully we can

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get to play with our kids someday. That would be awesome. That would

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really be awesome, and I hope
that day comes. Hopefully. I'd like

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to see it. Yeah, I
really would, because you start seeing that

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kind of handed down generation to generation. It's a beautiful thing. It is.

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It absolutely is. And you also
mentioned, I mean, the culture

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of soccer hasn't been you know,
for very long compared to especially European cultures

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and countries there. And I think
maybe if you that gets down the road,

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you know, United States can be
or soccer can be truly infiltrated into

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the culture of every community in the
United States. I'll give it. I

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give it five to ten years,
and it'll be everywhere because I know how

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prevalent it is here in Oklahoma,
and I know how it is in the

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Midwest. There are still a few
places it hasn't caught on, but it

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will, but it will. I
want to thank you for being with us

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today. This is good. Thank
you very much. We appreciate you having

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us here. And you know,
if, like I said, if you

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don't have anything to do on Saturdays, hey, gedually come out and watch.

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You know, if you can't be
an athlete, you can still be

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an athletic supporter. There you go, take care. Thank you very much.

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