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Digicel Schools Football Tournament Record number of entries anticipated since tournament’s conception
Its organizational expertise is unrivalled and sponsor Digicel is promising that this year’s Schools Football Competition will easily surpass the number of entries witnessed since the event’s conception in 2011.
According to Co-ordinator Lavern Fraser-Thomas, the number of schools to have already submitted their registration forms hover in the vicinity of last year’s total, while there is still a large number who’ve expressed interest outstanding and expected to submit their registration forms in the coming week.
Speaking at a meeting of members of the Organising Committee recently, Fraser-Thomas revealed the Company’s desire to have games played at new locations thereby offering communities the opportunity to showcase their culture, geography and diversity to participants in the competition.
When it all started in 2011.
“We’ve started our work very early, visiting several new locations and doing inspections of their facilities to verify their capability and readiness to host matches,” Fraser-Thomas said.
The experienced Co-ordinator, who has held the responsibility since the event was conceptualized, said that in addition to highlighting and developing the skills of the students, another aspect of the tournament is to showcase the diverse culture and geography of the country to the participants.
“Schools are basically getting an opportunity to benefit two-fold by participating in the biggest junior football tournament locally,” she stated.
Among the new places that they’ve visited with the hope of staging matches are Santa Rose in Region 1; Wowetta in Region 9; Siparuta and Orealla in Region 6 and Hauraruni and St. Cuthbert Mission in Region 4.
Fraser-Thomas also disclosed that Digicel has already begun to host Workshops for teachers and coaches with the first held at Wowetta in Region 9 and more are scheduled to be staged before the commencement of competition.
Meanwhile, Sponsorship and Events Manager of Digicel Gavin Hope said he is elated with the positive growth of the tournament which according to him has evolved into the premier schools football tournament in three short years.
This he attributed to a well put together Organising Committee and the Company’s careful review after each edition which has allowed it to remedy any evident imperfections.
“ I think I can safely say from a Company’s perspective that the growth of the tournament over the past three years have been positive and we’ve managed to improve the organizational capability each time, especially taking all the feedback be it positive or negative into our discussions during our review,” Hope pointed out.
He said just as the Company’s motto states ‘Bigger better network’ they’ve consistently strived to apply a similar quality to the tournament.
The Launch is scheduled for June 6 and according to a member of the Organising Committee the plan is to have it done outside of Georgetown which has hosted it since the start.
Christianburg/Wismar Secondary School have been the defending champions for the past two years, having defeated Waramadong on both occasions in the final.
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