28 teams gear up for tournament

TWENTY-eight school soccer teams are heading to Botha’s Hill for the inaugural Kearsney Soccer Tournament which kicks off this Friday, July 14.

Almost 500 enthusiastic and talented soccer players from around South Africa, with boys and girls from high schools and primary schools, will participate in the three-day event.

Twelve teams from boys’ high schools, nine from girls’ high schools and eight primary schools’ teams will gather to showcase their skills at this new tournament.

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The senior boys’ teams which will participate are Durban High School and Clifton College (both Durban), Maqhutshane Secondary and Siyajabula High (both KwaNyuswa), Curro Grantleigh (Richard’s Bay), Ashton Ballito, Port Shepstone High, Paul Roos (Stellenbosch), Urban Academy (Gqeberha), Tuks Sport High School (Pretoria), Lebone ll College (Rustenburg) and hosts Kearsney College.

The teams from girls’ high schools are Durban Girls’ High, Danville Park Girls’ and SAFA eThekwini (all Durban), Ashton Ballito, Curro Hillcrest, St Mary’s DSG (Kloof), Edendale Technical High (Pietermaritzburg), St Anne’s Diocesan College (Hilton) and Lebone II College (Rustenburg).

They will be joined by seven local primary school teams from Hillcrest Primary, Kloof Senior Primary, Highbury, Atholl Heights, John Wesley, Ashton Ballito and Merchiston.

Kearsney headmaster Patrick Lees said the school was extremely proud to be a catalyst in ensuring the development and growth of soccer at schoolboy level in this country.

Games will be live-streamed on the SuperSport Schools app. Fixtures, team lists and results will be on the Kearsney Events App, which is available on Google Play and iStore.

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