VIDEO: Jubilation for Surrey's Central City Breakers after the men's soccer team won a national club championship today in St. RELATED STORY, from 2019: Surrey soccer team wins national title for teammate Bassi, killed in car crash.The team’s former CCB name was dissolved when the Central City Breakers youth soccer association amalgamated with Surrey FC Pegasus last February. When we brought up the idea with them, they were more than honoured to have this happen, to be the team name like this.” First and foremost, we wanted to get the blessing from Brandon’s parents, that was the most important thing to us. “It needed approval from the league (Vancouver Metro Soccer League), and (Surrey FC) Pegasus has been really supportive. “There are a lot of moving parts with something like this,” he added. Hans said “the team loves it, the family loves it and the soccer community as a whole likes what we’ve done here as a gesture. “We love you, miss you and hope to make you proud and continue your legacy as a champion.” “We dedicate everything we do on the pitch to you Brandon,” the team posted to Instagram. Manager/coach Ted Hans said the team wanted to honour the Delta resident in a meaningful way, with a new name and logo that was revealed on social media Sunday (Aug. Following Bassi’s death, the team rallied to win the national title for “BB5,” and celebrated by holding up his #5 jersey during the trophy presentation on the soccer pitch in Newfoundland and Labrador.
John’s last October.īassi, 19, was killed in a single-vehicle crash in Newton the previous May, just a couple weeks after the team won the provincial title and a berth at nationals. The former will return first on April 2, and the latter will follow making its next close approach to Earth a month later on May 3.Īsteroid 2021 VR4 will next pass Earth in October 2023, but the fourth asteroid, 2019 BB5 won't return until December 4, 2024.A Surrey-based men’s soccer team that won the national club championship last fall will move forward with a new name honouring fallen teammate Brandon Bassi.Ĭentral City Breakers (CCB) is now known as BB5 United, the logo of which features a single star representing the club’s very first Challenge Trophy win at the 2019 Toyota National Championships in St. The largest and fastest asteroid, 2009 WB105 will be much farther out passing within 3.6 million miles of Earth.Īccording to NASA, both asteroids 2009 WB1 BB5 will return to the region of space around Earth in the first half of next year. In terms of distances from Earth, 2021 VR4 will come the closest to our planet passing with just half a million miles.
That's still fast enough to cover 48 football fields in the time it takes Brady's undoubtedly impressively rapid thrown ball to traverse one football field. While the smallest of Earth's four Thanksgiving visitors, 2021 VF11, with a diameter of just 23 meters, will pass Earth at a comparatively leisurely pace of 2,930 mph, or 1,310 meters (nearly 4,300 feet) per second. The 27-meter diameter asteroid 2019 BB5 will be traveling at almost 19,000 miles per hour when it passes Earth on November 25. The asteroid 2021 VR4 has an estimated diameter of up to 30 meters (nearly 100 feet) and will pass Earth at around 17,224 miles per hour, about nine times as fast as a bullet fired by a rifle. The three companions of 2009 WB105 won't be as big or traveling quite as fast. In fact, traveling at this speed, in the four seconds it would take Brady's ball to cover the length of the field this hypervelocity ball would have traveled the entire 446,000-meter length of the Grand Canyon and made it half the way back.
If a player could throw a football as fast as 2009 WB105 will be moving it would travel from goal post to goal post in just 0.006 of a second.