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More soccer fields would pay off for Myrtle Beach


North Myrtle Beach City League coach Marty Slapnik talks to the "Crew" team after their match on opening day of the North Myrtle Beach Park & Sports Complex in March 2014. The 160-acre complex includes two dog parks, a meadow, amphitheater, six ballfields and eight soccer/lacrosse fields, picnic areas, a fishing lake and trails.
North Myrtle Beach City League coach Marty Slapnik talks to the "Crew" team after their match on opening day of the North Myrtle Beach Park & Sports Complex in March 2014. The 160-acre complex includes two dog parks, a meadow, amphitheater, six ballfields and eight soccer/lacrosse fields, picnic areas, a fishing lake and trails. The Sun News

I am a soccer player and I have noticed that the city continues to build all other fields but very few soccer fields. The ones they have built we have to share with lacrosse or football or baseball and often the fields have so many lines it gets very confusing.

I think the city should build a soccer complex similar to the one in North Myrtle Beach. Not only would this bring in more tournaments to the city it would also allow those already are hosted here to be larger because more fields allows them to have more games. The city needs to tap into the sports tourism dollars that soccer would bring in if they added a soccer complex.

Thomas Shuler, Myrtle Beach

This story was originally published August 31, 2015 at 3:31 PM with the headline "More soccer fields would pay off for Myrtle Beach."

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