A “return” for some of the 2023 participants to visit and reconnect with players they met in the summer soccer exchange program in a 1 week trip during their school’s Spring vacation. This is still “an idea” coming from a core group of the 2023 participants on the girls’ team

Inaugural homestay pilot for 4-6 students (split in half by gender) to come for a week’s homestay in Foster City. This will happen in August of 2025.

Our goal is to match interested youth participants in both Inagi and Foster City with each other and allow them to correspond and share their interests and experiences.  We will partner with the San Mateo Foster City School District and the San Mateo Unified High School District to move this program forward. This will happen in the Fall of 2024.

Single FC based baseball team traveling with families to Tokyo to engage in a 3 game series with a team/teams from Inagi City Little League.  Trip leaders are Sanjay Gehani and Jimmy Atkinson, both serving on the current FCLL Board.

Inaugural youth sports exchange program with 12 girls and 15 boys journeyed from Foster City to Tokyo and participated in cultural activities/exchanges at Komazawa Women’s School, school visits at middle and elementary schools in Inagi City, soccer matches at the Inagi Soccer grounds against various club and school groups, a soccer training session with the Verdy Academy, a Verdy Soccer match, and other in Tokyo activities.  

The red carpet rolled out by the City, the School District and the Association for the delegation lead by Mayor Takahashi and Chairman Ando helped firmly set a high bar for what we should and could do for a program of this size.  Both the formal and informal receptions and programming help build a sold 24 hours of where we were able to really help both city’s leaders see what we could offer each other in terms of cultural exchange possibilities.  The association members who helped get everything stood up and executed were invaluable in the networking, planning and execution of these events in just 3 months.

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