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There can be a Minnesota high school senior all-star soccer sport in all star football game spite of everything.

Within the wake of the annual game being canceled, a grass-roots effort of mother and father has spawned a game that may take place Saturday at noon at Clemens Stadium on the campus of St. John's University in Collegeville.

In early May, the Minnesota Football Coaches Association (MFCA) introduced it was cancelling its annual all-star recreation, citing the pressures and restraints imposed by COVID-19.

The game, which had been performed in various incarnations since 1974, had most lately been played in December in U.S. Bank Stadium, reflecting excessive-profile sponsorship and promotion from the Minnesota Vikings.

The 2020 game, initially scheduled for December, was postponed, coming in the course of the pause on youth sports imposed by Gov. Tim Walz at the time. Efforts to reschedule it for June were unsuccessful.

But some parents weren't about to let the sport go. Invitations to the sport, a coveted prize amongst senior highschool football players, had already been introduced. Rosters have been set.

The trouble was led by Crystal Ziebarth of Cambridge, whose son Gaven was an all-state operating again and had dedicated to North Dakota. In response to the St. Cloud Times, she and a few other determined dad and mom raised $33,000 to reschedule the game. St. John's stepped in and agreed to allow them to hold the sport at vaunted Clemens Stadium.

"If I have realized anything over the past yr, it's that we DO have the power and innovation to work collectively for these youngsters and make things happen,'' Crystal Ziebarth wrote in a post on the Let them Play MN Facebook web page. "It just didn't really feel right to take this experience from the boys in spite of everything that they had already misplaced.''

The sport shall be performed in its typical North vs. South format. Pequot Lakes coach Bill Magnuson will coach the South workforce. Rocori assistant coach Shannon Humbert will coach the North.

Tickets are available upfront or at the stadium. The game will probably be livestreamed by PrepSpotlight.Tv.