Courtesy: Swazi Observer


Futsal schools’ tournament starts today

21 March, 2012

by Bodwa Mbingo

THE pilot Futsal schools’ tournament featuring 12 schools around the Mbabane/ Manzini corridor will begin today at 1pm.

Futsal is a five-aside indoor soccer game. The games will be played at Zakhele and Coronation Park Courts, announced National Football Association of Swaziland (NFAS)’ Technical Director Bhekisisa ‘Bizzah’ Mkhonta yesterday.

Expensive
Mkhonta explained that they decided to play the games in outside courts instead of indoors because they found it quite expensive to secure indoor venues for the schools.

The participating schools in Group A are Mbabane Central, St Francis, St Mark’s, Lobamba National, St Mary’s and Somnjalose High Schools. These schools will be playing at the Coronation Park. In group B there will be Hillside, Ngwane Park, St Paul’s, St John Bosco, Swazi National and the School for the Deaf and they will play at the Zakhele courts.

Establish
He explained that they chose to pilot the game in schools before they could establish a national league.
“This is a pilot tournament as we want to introduce the sport in the country.
The above schools sent their representatives to attend a course, where we taught them extensively about the game. We will be adding more schools into the programme as time goes on because our main aim is to have the sport running extensively,” he explained.

Tournament
Mkhonta added that the girls’ tournament would also start as soon as the boys enter the second round of their tournament.
“We urge even more schools to get ready to play the game, especially the girls,” he added.


THE FIXTURE:

Group A
Today at Coronation Park Courts
Mbabane Central vs St Francis 1pm
St Marks vs Lobamba National 2pm
St Mary’s vs Somnjalose 3pm

Group B
Today at Zakhele Courts
Hillside vs Ngwane Park 1pm
St Paul’s vs St John Bosco 2pm
Swazi National vs School for the Deaf 3pm




Posted by Luca Ranocchiari --> luca.ranocchiari@futsalplanet.com