YDP European Cup Football Tournament

A team of boys from Year 4, 5 and 6 took part in the Annual Youth Dreams Project European Cup Tournament on Thursday, 19 May at The Grange, Netherton.  16 Primary Schools from across the city took part each representing a different European country, we chose Germany. There were 4 groups. We were placed in Group 2 along with Fourfields Primary, The Beeches and Gunthorpe.

 

We played our first match against Spain (Fourfields Primary). They won  2-0.

In our second game against Portugal (The Beeches)  we drew 1-1. Tyran scored our goal.

The third game was England (Gunthorpe) vs Germany (Bishop Creighton). Again we drew 1-1.

 

We came third in our group and as such played the fourth placed team from Group 1 for our place in the semi-finals. We played against Croatia (Abbotsmede Primary) and won 2-0! Magnificent goals were scored again by Tyran and Rigo.

 

In the semi’s we again played against England (Gunthorpe). Despite a dominant performance by Germany (Bishop Creighton) we lost the match 1-0.

Mr Gibbons (Team Coach) said “The boys behaviour was exceptional! The showed real team spirit and determination. They were fantastic to watch and it is a real pleasure to be their coach!”

 

Our team were: Adrian (Captain), Aksels (Goal keeper), Lisandro, Samuel, Rigo, david, Ari, Tyran and Awat.

 

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