St Wilfrid's make another National Football Achievement

 

We sent two 5-a-side football teams to K2 to try their hand at futebal de salou which is a style of indoor football that the Brazilian's learn from when they are young. It uses a size two weighted football and requires better control of the ball throughout a game at a fast pace. 

Both the 'A' team and the 'B' teams began well in the tournament winning their opening games. 'A' beating Haywards Heath 5-0 (Rivers 4, Wood 1) whilst the 'B' team beat Central Sussex 1-0 (Benton). The 'A' team then drew with the Weald and with Central Sussex 'A' in heavily contested encounters 0-0 meaning they had to win their final two games to go through. The 'B' team drew with Central Sussex 'A' and beat Haywards Heath 4-1.

St Wilfrid's 'A' team had to play the 'B' team and convincingly beat them 3-0 (Cardon, White, Rivers) meaning that both teams had to win their final game to finish 1st and 2nd in the league and contest the final. Unfortunately the 'B's' lost 1-0 to the Weald but the 'A' team beat Central Sussex 'B' 1-0 to go through.

A heated final against Central Sussex 'A' was on the cards with St Wilfrid's only needing a draw to go through because they had finished top of the league. Tim Rivers however scored towards the end of the game to give us a 1-0 win meaning that we had qualified for the National Finals to be held in Leeds.

A fantastic achievement in their first outing at this format without Jordan Hall conceding a goal.

Team

Tim Rivers (c)

Carl Cardon

Jordan Bird

Jon Wood

Jordan Hall

Joe Aquilina

Stephen White

Reece Abbott

 

The student's named above (with the exception of Jordan Hall) have all been part of a successful squad throughout the years at St Wilfrid's winning the Area cup on three occasions (2005/2006/2007) and The County Cup (2005). The majority were part of a winning District Team Cup Side (2006). The team also qualified from a regional Playstation 5-a-side tournament to come joint 5th in the National Finals (2007). In 2009 they made the 11-a-side Schools National Quarter Finals and have now qualified for another National Tournament in 2010.