Ramblers Stadium was a hive of activity on Saturday when the first-ever Instant Futures Football Tournament was hosted.
The organisers say about 1 500 people turned up for the day-long event, while 372 players competed in various age group categories from under-7 to under-11.
The tournament falls under the new Top Score Instant umbrella called Instant Futures, and was inspired by a girl at Okalongo who used an Instant Porridge bag as a school bag.
Top Score brand manager Diego Talaya says the company sponsored the girl as well as her fellow pupils at Naiti Combined School with school bags, stationery, and instant porridge.
“The whole tournament comes from a beautiful but heart-breaking story. We saw a girl on social media a few months ago who was using a Top Score Instant bag as a school bag, so we decided to do something different for children under the Top Score umbrella,” he says.
“We then decided to sponsor the girl with her schoolmates at Naite Combined School with bags, and we also decided to bring children into the Top Score culture by hosting a tournament,” he says.
Talaya says the turn-out was great.
“We have a lot of academies and schools playing today, and just children who came together and formed teams to come and play. There was no structure on how the children turned out, but we are very happy that they turned out in numbers,” he said at the event.
“We are aiming to organise a league competition next year, so today was just to test the waters, and to see what we would get in terms of turn-out. It looks as if the turn-out was good, so we will go back and deliberate and see what we can do for the children next year,” he said.
The various medallists were as follows:
Under-7:
Gold: Julinho Athletic Football Club
Silver: Ramblers Lions
Bronze: Ramblers Warriors
Under-8:
Gold: SKW B
Silver: Ramblers A
Bronze: SKW A
Under-9:
Gold: Julinho Athletic Football Club
Silver: DTS A
Bronze: SKW
Under-11:
Gold: Julinho Athletic Football Club
Silver: MH Greeff
Bronze: Kasaona FA.
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