Finally the big day came, this past Sunday. Our street soccer project Phumelela was officially opened with a big tournament for 200 young Scouts aged 11-14 years. On request of the
GTZ (German Technical Co-operation, our sponsor of this year’s street soccer project) and on occasion of the Confederations Cup we put the whole tournament together, in only one month time. The first teams already arrived at 8 o’clock in the morning and after their team was registered at my desk they were provided with hot soup and bread. After registration all teams were presented with jerseys and base-caps from this year’s
street soccer project. In the morning all teams rotated between different bases from
Altus Sport, Green Feet and
Karos & Kambro. The bases contained Talk Life (Bring the youth back to start talking again. Sharing problems and delights), Life Skills (Active games connected to problems of HIV/Aids), dance (Expression, body control and team development) and recycling (How can I produce a soccer ball with plastic bottles?). The GTZ team from Pretoria was especially surprised about the intellectual curiosity and the high organization capability of our young players, which was reflected in the form of good listeners and systematic rotations. The first games started around midday. Every
game lasted 10 minutes, with four field players per team on the field and without a goal keeper, on a 25yrd x 15yrd field with a 3yrd goal. At the end of the day every team was rewarded with t-shirts and medals. The big winner of the day was the team of the two Rovers Thokozani Phangisa and Mbongeni Mokoena from Nkomazi, which entered the DJ stage with deafening noise from the Vuvuzelas (trumpet like team spirit creators) and a victory dance. With winning the tournament the team won, besides glory and envy from the other teams, a trip to Pretoria. Accompanied by their fieldworker Chris Mthembu t
he team spend four whole days in South Africa’s capital city. Their program consisted of further life skills activities, sightseeing tours, drama, art productions, Confederations Cup public viewing and a soccer tournament. Representing Mpumalanga the young team played against the winning teams of the provinces Gauteng, Eastern and Western Cape as well as against the winning teams from their neighboring African countries Mozambique, Botswana, Lesotho, Zambia, Ghana, Rwanda and Namibia. On the first day of the tournament they won every game fabulously and on the second day they merely lost against the team Africa United, which they’ve already beaten on the first day. In the end they obtained a bright third place.
Finally the big day came, this past Sunday. Our street soccer project Phumelela was officially opened with a big tournament for 200 young Scouts aged 11-14 years. On request of the GTZ (German Technical Co-operation, our sponsor of this year’s street soccer project) and on occasion of the Confederations Cup we put the whole tournament together, in only one month time. The first teams already arrived at 8 o’clock in the morning and after their team was registered at my desk they were provided with hot soup and bread. After registration all teams were presented with jerseys and base-caps from this year’s 
street soccer project. In the morning all teams rotated between different bases from Altus Sport, Green Feet and Karos & Kambro. The bases contained Talk Life (Bring the youth back to start talking again. Sharing problems and delights), Life Skills (Active games connected to problems of HIV/Aids), dance (Expression, body control and team development) and recycling (How can I produce a soccer ball with plastic bottles?). The GTZ team from Pretoria was especially surprised about the intellectual curiosity and the high organization capability of our young players, which was reflected in the form of good listeners and systematic rotations. The first games started around midday. Every 
game lasted 10 minutes, with four field players per team on the field and without a goal keeper, on a 25yrd x 15yrd field with a 3yrd goal. At the end of the day every team was rewarded with t-shirts and medals. The big winner of the day was the team of the two Rovers Thokozani Phangisa and Mbongeni Mokoena from Nkomazi, which entered the DJ stage with deafening noise from the Vuvuzelas (trumpet like team spirit creators) and a victory dance. With winning the tournament the team won, besides glory and envy from the other teams, a trip to Pretoria. Accompanied by their fieldworker Chris Mthembu t
he team spend four whole days in South Africa’s capital city. Their program consisted of further life skills activities, sightseeing tours, drama, art productions, Confederations Cup public viewing and a soccer tournament. Representing Mpumalanga the young team played against the winning teams of the provinces Gauteng, Eastern and Western Cape as well as against the winning teams from their neighboring African countries Mozambique, Botswana, Lesotho, Zambia, Ghana, Rwanda and Namibia. On the first day of the tournament they won every game fabulously and on the second day they merely lost against the team Africa United, which they’ve already beaten on the first day. In the end they obtained a bright third place.
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