Transition works well for Tigers SC

The two-year-old partnership between Alex Royal Tigers Sports Club and Transition Football is now paying huge dividends for the Alex soccer club.

This has become apparent on the field of play for the sports club as its various divisions, the U13, U15, U17 and U20, all command top positions in their respective leagues and often demolish their opponents with high score lines.

Just this past Monday (30 April), the U13 side had a league match at the Totalsports Safe Hub at what used to be known as Ground Number One, before its massive revamp more than a year ago, against Linda Stars and clobbered their opponents 10–0 to bag all three league points and accumulate a commanding goal difference.

Team skipper Gomolemo Kekana said his side was in position two of the log from six games with 18 points. “With today’s high scoreline, we’re likely to be at the summit of the log on goal difference, deposing leaders United Stars,” Kekana said.

U13 coach, owner and founder of the sports club, Thembinkosi ‘Tiger’ Matholengwe added, “I am happy with the performance of the boys, including those in other divisions, as we continue to demolish our opponents with high scorelines.”

Tiger, as he is popularly known in Alex football circles, said his U15 and 17 sides were at the top of their respective logs with no losses, while the U20 outfit was in second position. This is good news for the club and also speaks well of their partnership with Transition Football, he said. “I am pleased this partnership is now bearing fruit for all to see, including those who might have been sceptical of our decision to partner with Transition Football.”

Tiger’s U15 side are the defending champions of the of South African Football Association and the Alexandra Northrand Local Football Association (Safa/ANLFA Stream A League, while the U13s were runners-up. Both the U17 and U20 sides came third in the last league championships.

“I urge the boys in all the divisions to keep doing the good job they are currently doing and the results will follow,” Tiger added.

The Bryneven Primary School-based Transition Football is a high-performance development centre for football which has won the commitment of 95 soccer players between the ages of six and 22, mostly from the Alexandra, Bryanston and Sandton areas, whose main tenets of coaching are passing, positioning and possession, and every drill focuses on at least one of these.

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