The World Cup final is Sunday .
and a couple kids from our area can't help but feel
a connection to the host country.
That's because their coach .
is from Brazil.
Elton Mota coaches the
Coulee Region United Soccer Assocation's U-17 team.
It's part of a program called Tetra Brazil.
Mota travels around the world .
teaching kids soccer.
He says it's an important initiative to help grow
ELTON: They can see a staff that had a lot of experience
and people that have been into the game.
ZIMMERMAN: Some times kids around here grow up with
coaches that dont necessarily play soccer .
their just a parent or whatever and they play football
or whatever they might not know the game as much
ELTON: Sometimes I think you guys are developing better
better than other countries .
even brazil you guys really really going to the right