Football development programmes
Gday dear reader. I hope you had a blessed Easter weekend. This is an important weekend in the lives of Christians as they remember the dying and resurrection of Jesu Christ.
Of course, religion is part of us thus the significance of giving it the respect that it deserves.
In fact, sports, physical exercise, and recreational activity contribute to our development as spiritual beings composed of body and soul.
It is another weekend and it is of paramount importance to take good care of both our body and soul.
Football, the beautiful game has power to take good care of both.
It is for this reason that the EFA urges you to go out there and play the beautiful game or attend a football match.
There are a lot of football events billed for this weekend including grassroots football development programmes, workshops, and elite football competitions.
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The Build it U13 Football Development Programme is back after breaking for two weeks.
This football development programme will be executed at the Manzini Club where eight teams will today compete for the championship. This event will commence with a walk by the players and officials from the Build it Store to the Manzini Club. This walk will commence at 7am.
The eight teams who will be competing are Moneni Pirates FC, School of Excellence FC, Milling Hotspurs FC, Wonderful Touch FC, Mpholi Celtics FC, Gd’s Property FC, Manzini Wanderers FC, and Two Sticks Comrades FC. These teams are in two groups and the winners and runners-up per group will advance to the semi-finals.
The winners of the semi-finals will play in the finals. During these matches, the EFA youth coaches will select the pick team players for the Manzini Build it store that will compete against the other Build it Pick Teams in the national championship.
The EFA and Build it cordially invite the parents, relatives of the participants of this programme and the public at large to come to the Manzini Club to support the Eswatini children as they showcase their football artistry.
From Monday, April 17 to 19 this year, the EFA will host a Match Commissioners’ Workshop at the Manzini Caritas. The selected participants of this workshop will be officiating matches in the Womens Football League. The main objective of this workshop is to capacitate the participants on their roles and key deliverables in as far as the implementation of a football match is concerned. The topics to be discussed during this workshop are the code of conduct, duties of a match commissioner and report writing to mention but a few. In all these three days, the sessions will commence at 8:30am.
The Technical Development Scheme (TDS) is still ongoing where the Eswatini talented child’s football skills are being nurtured by the EFA’s Youth Coaches.
This programme is targeted to the U13s, U15s and U17s boys and girls. The participants were selected from the other football development programmes. With the schools currently closed, the TDS is implemented twice per week (Wednesdays and Saturdays)
Until next week, football for all and safe life for all.