Game on for school soccer Jordaan
South African Football Association president Danny Jordaan says SAFA will take over the running of school football.
Jordaan was speaking at the SAFA Development Programme graduation ceremony in Grahamstown last Saturday where he said it was SAFA's vision to stay true to their word of offering life skills, mass participation and produce the talent needed to make South African football a force to be reckoned with.
Jordaan said it was essential that each and every school play school football.
“The running of school football will be controlled by the LFA (Local Football Association) and we will ensure that schools play league games.
“It will be LFA responsibility to know how many schools there are under their LFA,” said Jordaan.
He also said they will do away with knockout competitions at school level as this kills the morale of the kids by not offering too much competition.
His plan is also to increase the number of soccer players in South Africa to raise the level of competition.
“Currently we have a 55-million population and only 2.5million soccer members.
“Countries that win world cups are at 10% population soccer players,” he said.
Grahamstown schools in particular have been starved of school soccer competition. Only one Grahamstown school participated in a soccer competition this year.
Fikizolo Primary School were the losing regional finalists in the Under-14 MacDonald’s schools league tournament at the beginning of September.
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