Golden chance passes Pholosho soccer team
ALEXANDRA – Pholosho misses golden opportunity to play against overseas teams.
Pholosho Junior Secondary School’s soccer team missed a golden opportunity to play against overseas teams in the 2017 Future Champions Gauteng International Tournament when they were bundled out in the group stages of the Gauteng Future Champions Schools Cup.
The cup is the qualifying tournament for the international leg and those schools that top the four groups automatically get to participate at the upcoming Future Champions Gauteng Cup.
The Future Champions Gauteng Cup is a precursor to the international leg and qualifying schools get one step closer to achieving their dream of competing with some of the best U17 sides in the world.
Esokwazi Secondary School, Bophelo Impilo Community School, KwaDukathole Comprehensive and Kingsway High School have all booked their place in the Gauteng Cup that will be staged on 11 March where the four qualifiers for the Future Champions Gauteng International Tournament will be revealed.
The international leg of the tournament will be staged from 20 to 25 March at the Football Training Centre in Pimville, Soweto and will feature 12 teams all vying for the right to be crowned champions, including some top names from overseas.
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Pholosho were clobbered 5–0 in their opening game of the Schools Cup by one of the giants of schools football in Gauteng, Esokwazi Secondary School and then they went on to draw 2–2 with minnows New Model Private College, before being bundled out of contention by Chipa-Tabane Secondary School 1–0.
Esokwazi were eventually crowned champions of the schools’ tournament after a comprehensive 4–0 humiliation of Boipelo Impilo Community School in the final played at the George Thabe Stadium in Sharpeville.
Returning for the third year in a row will be Italian club Torino FC whose senior side campaign in Serie A . They first appeared at the tournament in 2015 when they claimed the title, defeating local Gauteng side SuperSport United 5–4 in a penalty shoot-out in the final
following a 0–0 stalemate.
They were back last year but this time finished in fifth place, though a number of their players caught the eye, including the free-scoring Alessandro Iacuaniello.
The second European team to compete this year will be Belgian side Club Brugge which finished seventh last year.
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