As our Year 6 football stars almost come to the close of their season and football journey with VPFC, they recently took up the challenge of a friendly tournament to celebrate all those techniques and goal scoring prowess they’ve developed over their formative years with our club.
There were three VPFC teams – VPFC City coached by Ralph Fernando, VPFC Saints coached by Andy Roughton and VPFC Rovers coached by Dave Buckley – and to complete the line up , a visiting team from Harvesters FC coached by Pearse Broderick for a morning of play in the June sunshine. Great fun and team spirit was had by all including fantastic support from families and friends of all the players, spectating with huge encouragement from the sidelines.
Head coach Tim Pointer commented on the tournament, “Having coached this group for six years, it was wonderful to organise ‘Le Tournoi’ for them as their time with VPFC draws to a close; and to see our girls and boys apply themselves to these matches with skill and purpose.”
All four teams played their three round-robin group games, with Harvesters FC and VPFC Saints then progressing through to the Final as the top two teams. In the final, Akeem scored for VPFC Saints in the first half, with Harvesters FC equalising in the second half.
So then it was onto the usual nail biting penalties just like those fine games in the Euros this Summer. Harvesters took the tournament with a 3-2 win – a dramatic end to a fantastic event staged in some glorious Summer sunshine and much fun was had by all.
The winning team of the ‘Le Tournoi’ tournament was proudly crowned as Harvesters FC with a prize giving ceremony as well as key prizes for star players on the pitch.
In true good sport VPFC would like to congratulate Harvesters FC on their win and a huge thanks to everyone for some great play and spirit on the field.
The club would like to give special thanks to our coaches of Year 6 – head coach Tim Pointer, Andy Roughton, Ralph Fernando alongside Dave Buckley, a former VPFC coach from previous years who came to lead one of the teams and another returner in Craig Learoyd who rejoined as a referee and our Duke of Edinburgh Award student, Erin who all made the day so special.
