Ocean City FC General Manager Neil Holloway had some new cleats gathering dust at the Barons office, and during a conversation with Jim Taylor (of the Mainland United travel team that he helps train), the topic of conversation got round to Jim’s high school team in Philadelphia.

The inner city high school soccer team has a United Nations feel to it, with players from all over the globe, many of whome have never played a high school soccer game wearing soccer cleats. Holloway immediately thought of the cleats idly sitting around the office and donated them to the Mastbaum High School boys soccer team.

The following boys (and their country) were given the opportunity to use new shoes for the first time in high school: Son Nguyen, Tony Nguyen, Thang Nguyen (all from Vietnam), Rayet Mom (Cambodia), Granfort Rodgers (Jamaica), George Jackson and Emmanuel Juah (both from Liberia), Justin Phann (Thailand), Ahmad Mohamed (Sudan), Anniel Castaneda (Cuba), Jose Almonte and Jose Suchite (Puerto Rico), Abdel Zidan (Arab), and Brian Parker and Dwight Phillips (USA). (Pictured right)