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THE
& ORMSKIRK & SOUTHPORT 6 A SIDE FOOTBALL LEAGUES
TOP quality
football kits are to be given to all the new teams that enter the
new league starting at Ormskirk School in Ormskirk and Greenbank
High School in Southport in a sponsorship deal arranged by league
organisers, Football Mundial.
The league that
starts in April & May will be held every Tuesday evening and will
have 16 teams participating, and there are still spaces available.
Matt Smart from Football Mundial said:- "We are extremely
pleased to have secured a sponsorship deal to enable all our teams
to have kits for the league. It means that when teams join they will
get a kit that they can not only play in our league with but also
take home and do what they want with it! The league will
provide each team with a kit. The league will have a state of
the art website where teams can look at there league tables,
fixtures & results. The website will be updated daily, the website
is
www.footballmundial.com."
There is a small
registration fee of £40 to play in the new Football Mundial league
that includes a free kit and affiliation to the F.A. The
league will be refereed by F.A. Qualified officials and all
equipment such as balls, kits, bibs and everything will be provided.
Any standard of teams are welcome to the league as there will now be
two divisions of eight teams with a promotion and relegation system
in operation.
Teams that win there
division or finish runners up will be invited to Football Mundial
national tournament which will have the top 100 teams from our 150
leagues throughout the country competing at a venue in the Yorkshire
to determine the top team in our network of leagues. The team
that wins the tournament will then go through to an international
tournament in Ibiza and will be fully sponsored all expenses paid by
Football Mundial!
National Tournament
organiser Jon Sykes expressed his delight at taking a team to Ibiza
to play in the international event:- ‘‘We will be taking our
best team from our network of leagues next year to the international
tournament. It will be an all expenses paid holiday and is a great
tournament that we have been running in Ibiza for over 10 years
now’’.
Registrations are
being taken for the league at
www.footballmundial.com and registration online
guarantees your team a place in the league.
New teams wishing
to join the league and get a free kit when they join or for further
information can contact Football Mundial on 01937 841440. |
Dive in to new Liverpool Aquatics Centre
THE BRAND new
£17 million Liverpool Aquatics Centre opened its doors last weekend.
The Olympic sized pool, which will be used as a training camp by
some of the world’s best swimmers in the run up to the 2012 games,
opened at 9:30am on Saturday, 15 March 2008.
The state-of-the-art facility in Wavertree is 3 pools in 1, with the
main pool able to be divided in 2, plus another 20 metre training
pool. It has a unique moveable floor which allows the depth to
be varied and can even be raised above the water line for it to be
used for dry sports such as aerobics.
It’s the biggest investment in the city’s swimming facility for
decades, and will benefit the local community and the city’s team of
elite swimmers, putting an end to the 70 mile round trips they have
had to make to Manchester and Wigan for training. The team includes
2 of Britain’s best Olympic hopefuls: Commonwealth Games silver
medallist Francesca Halsall and European Youth Olympic champion
Michael Rock.
Council leader Warren Bradley said:- “This is a major new
investment in community facilities, not just for local people and
schoolchildren, but also our team of brilliant elite Commonwealth
and Olympic swimmers. We already have first class athletics,
football, gymnastics and tennis facilities in Liverpool, and the
pool will allow us to bid to host national swimming championships so
that people can cheer on our athletes in their home city.
There has been a great deal of anticipation ahead of the opening and
I know people will be queuing up to use the new pools and gym.
This is a major part of our drive to improve the health of the local
community by giving them access to affordable, top quality leisure
centres - and all children under 17 will be able to use it at no
cost using their free council leisure passes. It is another
great boost for Liverpool in our year in the spotlight as European
Capital of Culture.”
Spectators will be able to watch the swimmers in a 400 seat arena,
and it is expected the centre will also host major championships.
The project includes
additional investment to improve the adjoining Lifestyles leisure
centre, which has seen a large expansion of the gym which now
contains more than 100 pieces of state-of-the-art equipment.
The entire sports complex, which also includes the Indoor Tennis
Centre, Athletics Centre and extensive synthetic and grass sports
pitches has been re-named Wavertree Sports Park.
The majority of funding - £13 million - is coming from the city
council, with a further £4m of Lottery cash from Sport England.
The Aquatics Centre replaces the original 80 year old Picton Baths
which had to close because of structural problems.
Stewart Kellett, Regional Director of Sport England North West,
said:- “We are extremely pleased to be able to invest such a
substantial amount into the development of a 50m pool for Liverpool.
We are committed to increasing participation in physical activity
and sport across the North West and the likes of Wavertree Sports
Park and the Liverpool Aquatics Centre will play a huge part in
helping us to achieve this.
Not only will it be a world-class
training and competition facility, but also a place to nurture our
young talent and somewhere for the local community to enjoy.” |
