St Michael schools to benefit from Soccer Fest

Hundreds of primary school footballers will have an ideal warm up for the upcoming BICO National Sports Council Football competition, during the St Michael Inter-Primary School Soccer Fest.

Coordinated by the Empire Club, the one-day event which caters to schools in St Michael, gets underway on Friday at the club’s Bank Hall playing field.

According to member of the organising committee Dale Greenidge, the inaugural event will cater to ten schools, with an expansion planned for future editions.

“Well we know that the [BICO] Primary School football tournament starts sometime next week, so we decided to put on a tournament for schools from St Michael, probably not all, but ten of them, because it is the first time they will be playing in a preseason one day tournament.

“It’s just after the Common Entrance exam and just before the start of the BICO tournament, so you know the boys that normally play and are in Class 3 or 4 might not be doing that much at school right now,” Greenidge pointed out.

According to Greenidge, the response from schools has been excellent.

“We started with ten schools so we can manage the time frame of a school day. A lot more schools would like to get involved in it, so next year we hope it can be bigger and better. 

“We are likely to put the teams in two zones in an effort to get everything completed on time in one day, so parents can still collect their children on time,” Greenidge said.

(KH)