On Wednesday 24th May, the college, along with Sainsbury’s held a five a-side tournament on the AstroTurf in aid of Gordon Bank’s charity. Each player participating, paid 2 pound and all proceeds went to his charity, the Alzheimer’s Society.
The day was based around the 2012 European Championships, and each squad got allocated a team from the European championships.
Each game was 8 minutes long, and 16 teams each team played in a group stage with the top 2 teams going through to the knockout stages.
The teams that progressed to the knock out stages were, from group A, Russia and Czech Republic. From group B, Germany and Portugal. From group C, Spain and Croatia and group D France and England. These games were again 8 minutes each way, with the winning team progressing through.
The 2 teams that made it through to the final were Spain and Croatia. This game was changed to 5 minutes each way increasing the game by 2minutes. It was a nervy finish to the game with Croatia leading 3-2. However, Spain pulled a goal back to make it 3-3 and the game was then taken to penalties. Each team had 5 penalties with each team member taking one each. Spain ended up winning the resulting penalty shootout 4-2 to win the trophy.
Overall, the day was a huge success with over 100 students taking part, partly granted to the fine weather. We raised a lot of money for Gordon Bank’s charity and the standard of football was brilliant.
Thanks to everyone that took part.
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