Lakewood Soccer Team

Lakewood Elementary Soccer Team
Head Coach	Ed Crosswire
Team Captains	Alan Powers and Francine Frensky
Home Stadium	Lakewood Soccer Field
Largest Win (mentioned)	2-0 vs Mighty Mountain
Largest Loss (mentioned)	0-6 vs Mighty Mountain

 

The Lakewood Elementary Soccer Team represents Lakewood Elementary School in Elwood City in soccer. The team's most skilled players seem to be Francine and Brain, because they are the team captains. Binky may also be rather talented, as in "Binky Rules," he seemed to have a good chance of making the school's "travel team."

Team Strategy

They seem to play in an odd formation, according to shots from The Big Blow-Up. They run what looks like a 17-6-4, which is rarely, if ever, used in real-life. Brain is also the closest forward to Francine, so that they can build up passes together and score goals.

Coaches

Their first coach was either Coach Murphy or Trevor. In the seasons with them as coaches they lost almost every game and did not make it into the playoffs. In Muffy's Soccer Shocker Ed Crosswire becomes coach, and he also became the coach in the chapter book "Arthur and the Best Coach Ever".

Name

They are unofficially known as "Lakewood Soccer". In "Arthur and the Best Coach Ever" (written by Stephen Krensky) the name of the team is the Lakewood Lightning and after Ed Crosswire became the coach they were known as the Crosswire Comets. However, in later books and episodes they have no official name.

Uniforms

The team's uniforms until Season 13.

The team's uniforms were blue with a darker blue circle on the right side and even darker blue sport shorts with a stripe on the side. But in Season 13, it was changed to a green and yellow (picture above).

The "A" Team Chronology of Games

The chronology of the games seen in Arthur has never been revealed. The four episodes that include their soccer

The School Soccer Field, home of the Lakewood Elementary Soccer Team.

games, and they are Arthur's Dummy Disaster, Muffy's Soccer Shocker, Waiting To Go, The Big Blow-Up, The "A" Team, and Nicked by a Name. Ed Crosswire becomes coach in Muffy's Soccer Shocker and is shown as coach in The "A" Team and Waiting To Go, so we can assume that the games from the two later episodes came after the former. Before Muffy's Soccer Shocker, Trevor the head coach. In The Big Blow-Up, no coach is shown. Trevor probably wasn't their coach then because according to Arthur they always lost with him as a coach. In Arthur's Dummy Disaster, Francine recalls a game in a flashback from the past. We can then assume that the order of the episodes is Arthur's Dummy Disaster, Muffy's Soccer Shocker, The A-Team, Waiting To Go, The Big Blow-Up, Nicked by a Name if the team got better after The A-Team. The team plays games in the Spring, rather than the Winter.

Jerseys

In almost all episodes the team has appeared in their jerseys are sky blue. However, in The Pride of Lakewood they get new jerseys after having problems with the old ones. So after rallying, the team got new jerseys and its colors were changed to green & yellow. In the chapter book "Arthur and the Best Coach Ever" Ed Crosswire changed their jerseys.

Current Roster

Name	Position	Jersey Number
Sue Ellen Armstrong	Defender	6
Binky Barnes	Goalkeeper and Forward	1/10
Buster Baxter	Forward	2
Muffy Crosswire	Goalkeeper	1
Prunella Deegan	Unknown	?
Francine Frensky	Forward	11
George Lundgren	Defender and Goalkeeper	12
Jenna Morgan	Midfielder	15/39
The Brain	Forward and Goalkeeper	10/1
Arthur Read	Forward and Goalkeeper	3
Fern Walters	Midfielder	17
Male Aardvark	Midfielder	7
Alex	Midfielder	9
Maria Pappas	Goalkeeper	14
3rd Grade Female Aardvark	Forward	20
3rd Grade Male Rabbit	Defender	13
3rd Grade Male Rat	Guard	30
Jessica (3rd grader)	Midfielder	5
3rd Grade Male Cat	Forward	21

Loss	6-0(1)
Tie	3-3(2)
Win	4-3(3)
Loss	*
Loss	*(4)
Loss	3-1(5)
Loss	1-0
Loss	*
Win	2-0(6)
Win	4-3(7)
Win	3-2
Loss	2-1
Loss	5-2
Win	7-4
Win	11-3
Win	6-1
Win	3-0
Win	4-2
Win	1-0
Win	6-3
Win	3-1
Win	5-0
Win	2-1
Win	5-4
Win	8-3
Win	4-0

• Outcome determined but score never mentioned.
• 1- Team was coached by Trevor
• 2- This is the only episode where Muffy plays a game.
• 3- Lakewood was without Francine or Brain this game.
• 4- Against the Elwood City All-Stars.
• 5- This game clinched the playoffs.