you chose to leave your school based recreational team to form a new team that represents san francisco vikings and this great city. you wear -- you proudly wear your club crest and the name san francisco on your jersey. as you know, the club system allows soccer players from all parts of the city to come together and work as a team. this is similar to how these supervisors represent different neighborhoods, but work together as a team to make the great city this place is. if my family and i were granted a wish, it would be to continue to build and convert unused space to active places where adults and families and elders can come together and play. we wish for school yards and gyms to be open and accessible for everyone to use. build it and they will come and play and enjoy it. girls, crocker amazon in south sunset are examples of this. and this is where we get to play. we look forward to the completion of the beach chalet into an all-weather soccer complex. the viking courage girls would like to end with our cheer. we have learned that great work is a team effort and is done together. we have

we are going to be honoring our viking soccer club here in san francisco and they're under 9 girls team. so, girls, why don't you come on up. (applause) >> so, colleagues, why we're honoring them today, this is the vikings under 9 years girls team called courage, and we're honoring them because they not only won the san francisco ccsl prep tournament, but just a few weeks ago they also won the norcal state cup. (applause) >> as we can all see, and this is done over the weekend of november 16th. the courage under 9 team is comprised of girls from six different supervisor districts throughout the city of san francisco, and the name courage encourages those girls and these girls to do their best and challenge their fears and work together as a team which they've obviously done. over two weekends, courage won six straight game. their team, coaches and family came together as a group and were tested not only on the field , but as a parent of three young children i can empathize with this. came together in their transportation process, driving back and forth between manteca and san francisco