Dallas Trinity FC<\/a> players helped coach the girls during the\u00a0showcase.<\/p>\n\u201cThe better footing and better foundation at the ISD with young players, benefits Trinity,\u201d said Dallas Trinity FC founder and president Charlie Neil. \u201cWe are trying to grow the game, we’re trying to help improve the game, but also those who are leaning in and learning and loving the game will hopefully become fans of our\u00a0team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Neither\u00a0Pinkston\u00a0nor\u00a0Bryan\u00a0Adams had\u00a0players this year who traveled abroad as part of the Dallas Athletics Club,\u00a0but their\u00a0success\u00a0and fan support last season\u00a0demonstrate\u00a0how\u00a0the\u00a0environment around soccer\u00a0within the district has changed, boosted by\u00a0a vibrant yet\u00a0often overlooked majority demographic.<\/p>\n
Dallas ISD often gets typecast\u00a0as a\u00a0predominantly Black\u00a0school district.\u00a0Its\u00a0best sports\u00a0\u2014\u00a0football,\u00a0basketball and track\u00a0and\u00a0field\u00a0\u2014\u00a0are spearheaded by some of the top Black athletes\u00a0in\u00a0Texas.\u00a0The\u00a0teams are of course open to all students, but the\u00a0district is\u00a071.2%\u00a0Hispanic,\u00a0and\u00a0both\u00a0varsity soccer teams that played deep into the playoffs were majority Hispanic as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause\u00a0of\u00a0the role that soccer plays in in the Latino community, and when we say Latino community in Dallas, we’re\u00a0talking\u00a0Mexico, Honduras, Salvador, Panama, Guatemala,\u201d Reyes said. \u201cWe are well represented as far as Latin America is\u00a0concerned, and we we’re proud of that and so because of the cultural significance of football in the Latino community, now we just needed to provide an opportunity for the kids to embrace it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The district is proud of the platform that its success in football and basketball\u00a0has\u00a0given the entire\u00a0Dallas area,\u00a0but now players and coaches alike are embracing the potential role that soccer could play in that as well.\u00a0Basketball is a sport a lot of students\u00a0casually play in their spare time outside of school and,\u00a0for a lot of\u00a0students, soccer exists on that same recreational plane.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat’s the reason I came to this school,\u201d Pinkston head boys soccer coach Daniel Cruz said. \u201cThe main reason was to represent my Latino community, my Hispanic community and\u00a0show\u00a0that we also compete at the\u00a0high level.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lopez says her eventual goal is\u00a0obviously\u00a0a state championship\u00a0for the district, in girls or boys, but to also eventually see local teams like Trinity and, soon-to-be Atletico Dallas, pull talent from the schools as well that eventually creates a potential pipeline\u00a0to the national team.<\/p>\n
For Reyes, he hopes to see the district\u2019s reputation grow similarly to that of basketball.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you’re\u00a0going to win state championship basketball,\u00a0you’re\u00a0gonna\u00a0have to go through a Dallas ISD school,\u201d Reyes said. \u201cThat’s\u00a0what I want for\u00a0all\u00a0our sports in this\u00a0particular case.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you look at the\u00a0playoff bracket and you see you got a Dallas ISD school, you\u00a0go \u2018God, it’s\u00a0gonna\u00a0be tough,\u00a0and more than likely, I’m\u00a0gonna\u00a0be out one and done because I’m playing the Dallas ISD school.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lincoln graduate Joe Gonzalez also became the first Dallas ISD student\u00a0to receive an international soccer scholarship to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[732,44100,102,104,103,81711,133303,90420,133302,88816,87906],"class_list":["post-377104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-article","tag-boys-soccer","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-girls-soccer","tag-high-school-sports-soccer","tag-tp-pinkston-school","tag-tp-bryan-adams-school","tag-tp-dallas-trinity-fc","tag-tp-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}