Soccer festival ready to go

TWELVE local primary school boys soccer teams will compete in the annual U13 Built It soccer festival at Empangeni Preparatory School on Saturday.

The schools will be divided into four pools and play three 20 minute matches each to qualify for the knockout stages.

Felixton College, KwaMbonambi, Empangeni Christian School, Empangeni Preparatory, Grantham Park, St Catherine’s, Grantleigh, Madlankala, Wood & Row, uFsimba, Ingweni and Shashweni will be competing for a trophy, full soccer kit, practice balls and individual player trophies.

The runners-up will receive a trophy, medals and full player kit sponsored by Old Mutual.

Action is scheduled to get underway from 7.30am, with prize giving set for 3pm. Empangeni Preparatory coach and sport co-ordinator Thokozani Sikhosana and Tim Mpanza (right) receive the winners’ prizes sponsored by Zululand Build It on Monday. Build It North Coast Co-ordinator Ngcebo Zulu and Zululand Build It representative Sibusiso Cele (left) handed over the prizes Richard Springorum