{"id":29,"date":"2017-07-21T23:15:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T20:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/?p=29"},"modified":"2017-07-22T03:15:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T00:15:37","slug":"hamtramck-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/hamtramck-warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamtramck Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Omar Thabet<\/strong>
\nThe Yemeni American News<\/p>\n

For those of you don\u2019t know, there is a new youth soccer club in town, and they are ready to take over your city.
\nThe Hamtramck Warriors soccer club was established in 2015. They have been a part of the Michigan Association for two years now.<\/p>\n

The Hamtramck Warriors Soccer Club consists of a U-8 team (will be added this year), U-13 team, U-15 team, and a U-18 team. They play in the Midwest region, which includes teams from Michigan, Indiana, and Canada. The Hamtramck Warriors are a part of the State Premiere League.
\nTheir founder, Hesham Arobye, is also the coach for all the teams in the club.
\nHesham graduated out of Hamtramck High School in 2008. After high school, he played semi-pro ball for two-and-a-half years. While playing soccer for his semi-pro team, he started seeing all of these other clubs that were growing from ages 8-10 years old. So he thought to himself, \u2018Why don\u2019t I start a club of my own?\u2019
\nHesham said, \u201cI started strolling the streets of Hamtramck, going to all the parks and I would see kids play soccer but have no team to play on. So I figured this would be a great opportunity to start something new in Hamtramck.\u201d
\nAfter that, the rest was all history.
\nLast year, the Hamtramck Warriors U-18 team went undefeated and won the State Premiere championship, while his U-15 team finished the season with a 7-1-3 record.
\nThis year, his U-15 team finished their season undefeated, while his U-13 team finished their season with a 14-4-4 record.
\nThe clubs\u2019 success didn\u2019t just happen overnight. As Hesham would tell you, most of the clubs struggles happened off of the field rather than on it.
\nOne of the team\u2019s struggles was transportation.
\nWhen the club first started, Hesham used three cars to get his players to games. One of them was his dads, the other two were his. He knew this method wasn\u2019t going to work, so he decided to come up with a new method of transportation, that method being the Hamtramck Warriors Bus.
\n\u201cI spent all summer of 2015 looking for a bus on Ebay and Criagslist,\u201d Hesham said. \u201cOnce I found the right bus, it took me three-and-a-half months to remodel it. It\u2019s safe to say that getting the bus was the biggest accomplishment for me.\u201d
\nGetting the bright yellow 4-wheeler was definitely an accomplishment to say the least. According to Hesham, the number of players grew ever since he purchased the bus. The program started with only 10 kids. Now the program has up to 70 kids and is still growing.
\nPaying the small required fee won\u2019t just get you in the club, though. There is a contract players have to sign before Hesham accepts them on the team. In that contract, there are two pages of requirements listed that all players on the Hamtramck Warriors Soccer club have to follow. Some of those requirements are:
\nMaintaining a GPA no lower than a 2.9
\nMust sit in the front of the classroom during the entire school year
\nMaintain perfect attendance and good citizenship in the classroom
\nMust arrive 10 minutes before practice time because 5 minutes before practice time is considered late
\nMust bring 100% effort to all practices and games and not arrive without interest
\nA failure to follow any of the requirements can result to a 2-4 week suspension; all depending on the severity of the failed requirement.
\nKids love playing for the Hamtramck Warriors, as well as for Coach Hesham.
\nHanley International Academy sixth grader Moatasem Fadhel plays center defender for the U-13 and U-15 Hamtramck Warriors team. He said the best part about the team is playing for Coach Hesham.
\n\u201cCoach Hesham really does care about his players,\u201d Moatasem said. \u201cHe\u2019s also a very smart coach. We are always learning something new every day at practice.\u201d
\nHesham\u2019s long term goal for the team is to establish a youth soccer program in Hamtramck that is going to be going on for many years to come and for many different generations.
\nHe wants to give the kids something he wasn\u2019t fortunate enough to have when he was growing up.
\nThe Hamtramck Warriors Soccer Club has been approved to be a Non-profit organization for more than a year now.
\nThere are a number of businesses in Hamtramck who have sponsored the club.
\nWhen I asked Hesham how much of his own money has he put in to keep the club going, he smiled and said, \u201cYou don\u2019t want to know.\u201d
\nIf you are looking to donate to a Non-Profit Organization, look no further to the Hamtramck Warriors Soccer Club.
\nYou can find out how to donate to the team by emailing Hesham at Hamtramckwarriorsfc@gmail.com.<\/p>\n

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