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For a start, your 500D is fine, as long as you can live with the frame rate.
The lens will probably cause some problems as it's very slow focusing so I'd prefer something like a 70-200 f4 IS. It's relatively affordable and is THE sharpest zoom canon make. Sharper than a lot of primes even and it focuses nice and fast.
The only cross-type focusing point is the centre one so just track carefully using that.
The basic AF is going to make you work pretty hard though but it should be fine. Having something like a 1D just guarantees more in-focus shots.
Use continuous firing mode with ai-servo which tracks moving subjects. There's a custom setting for adjusting the shutter and focus bias which some people play around with but just leave it and see what your keeper rate is like.
Maybe keep the camera in shutter priority mode too and set it something that freezes action.
Tl;dr - its all about the lens and ai-servo mode.