Sandton-based college celebrate its run in the 2022 USSA tournament
Noxolo Tshuma from the IIE Varsity College Sandton ladies soccer team shares her highlights of playing in the annual University Sports South Africa tournament.
The women’s team of IIE Varsity College Sandton campus concluded their run in the prestige soccer tournament, University Sport South Africa (USSA), with a bang.
With more than 20 universities competing for gold in Secunda, Mpumalanga, the majority of the matches were not a stroll in the park.
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Varsity College who are no strangers to the annual tournament played from December 5 to 9, managed to finish in eighth place.
Despite not reaching the semi-finals, the soccer squad and coaching staff of Varsity College took the experience and battles on the pitch as a solid victory.
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“Regardless of the weird weather, I would like to say we gave USSA 2022 our best. My highlights included giving our best competitor, Walter Sisulu University, regardless of the 2–0 defeat, a run for their money. How we put everything we had on the field when we played all our matches, we would have loved to have won many more games, but overall, the tournament was well played,” said defender Noxolo Tshuma.
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