the event started at 9am with prayer (following a manic time for the organising team, of daz, lisa, maz, arron, reagan, tim and sandra before hand to ensure all the children arrived on time) and then the ‘tournament’ started, this was which was a round robin affair with all teams (hillside, pineview, iraq, roooidakke, elgin timbers) playing each other to decide the overall winner.
4 teams contested the under 15 soccer league, all 5 entered the under 13 soccer league and lisa ran 3 teams for the netball. Each of the soccer teams were made up of 5 boys, with up to 4 substitues and the netball was obviously seven with again a few subs...it was great to see over 100 children come together from townships and squatter camps to enjoy themselves on a saturday morning and this is defiantly something we will be repeating throught the year, leading up to the 2010 world cup next year.
the everynation church from baxter congregation in cape town came to help ref the games and oversee the teams, they also provided the refreshments for the children after the prize giving. we were also joined by ross and the team from aylesbury who took loads of photos and also had a great time interacting with the children that we work with.
for the record arron’s roooidakke soccer teams were the winners of both age groups, with a 3 way penalty shootout decided the under 13 league and the under 15’s won with a last minute penalty both against tim’s Iraq sides.....not a lot was said by tim following those defeats! (he writes!)....the netball was won by the hillside girls who receive their training from reagan and tim on a monday afternoon....maybe that says something about tim and reagan's soccer v netball skills!please visit tim’s flickr site for some photos.
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