Rietvale High School takes home R100 000 as Northern Cape
Sanlam Kay Motsepe School Cup - For the third consecuitve year!
Rietvale High School is from the small town of Ritchie,
50km outside Kimberley, and is making a name for itself as a football
powerhouse in the Sanlam Kay Motspe Schools Cup competition. The school has won
the Northern Cape Provincial finals in the tournament three years in a row.
Winning this round means the school gets R100 000 which,
according to team manager, Barry Kammies, will be used, together with the
winnings from 2012, to purchase a school bus to transport players to sports
events. The R100 000 funds won in 2011
were used to build a fence around the property.
Kammies believes that the win is due to hard work and
focus. “We believe in consistency, and
that comes from working hard together,” Kammies says. “We try to balance the
equation of new players and old players in the team and we have one vision in
the team – winning our matches.”
Kammies says they have analysed their strengths and
believe they have a solid defence and strong captain and striker Angelo van
Rooi. “He is good and very fast on the field, he has ball control, discipline
and a great attitude towards soccer,” Kammies said. “We will be building on
those strengths in preparation of the national finals.”
The team has the support of the entire school. Busses have been hired for supporters to go
to the national finals.
In the mean time they are hard at work preparing for the
national finals. “For the next two weeks we will focus on fitness, tactics -
formation, spacing and passing the ball – and concentration on the field,”
Kammies says. “Our central midfielders need to work hand in hand with helping
the defence to make sure that their opponents don’t play on their weaknesses.
Hard work is the reason why we have managed to win this competition three
times, now we have to be committed to the game and every player must give all
for his team mates if we want to go further.”
