Cloetesville
Primary School emerged as Provincial Champions at the sixth provincial final of
the 2012 Nestlé MILO Champions Tournament this past weekend at Steenberg High
School in Cape Town, Western Cape. Cloetesville Primary School beat five other
schools from across the province on Saturday, 28 July and will go on to
represent the Western Cape at the National Final in September.
Nestlé
MILO in conjunction with the South African Schools’ Football Association
(SASFA) has been hosting the U13 schools soccer tournament for the past five
years.
The
Nestlé MILO Champions Tournament is not just about developing the soccer skills
of these young stars. It is our goal to educate the youth during their
formative years about the benefits of leading healthy and active
lifestyles. We are extremely proud of
how seriously these children take the sport and the tournament itself, and the
positive impact it is having on their lives,” says Kelly Wainwright, Nestlé
South Africa’s Marketing Manager for Beverages.
Cloetesville
Primary School will receive R10 000 to invest in an initiative which is in line
with Nestlé MILO’s values of Nutrition, Health and Wellness. They will be able
to use these funds to improve the sporting facilities or buy sporting equipment
for their school.
At
the end of the season, the school that is crowned the overall tournament
champions in September will receive an additional R150 000 to invest in a
similar initiative around their school’s sports and wellness infrastructures.
“Youth
development, through sports is one of the biggest means of positively impacting
and inspiring the lives of young South Africans in this country. It is a dream
come true for all of us at SASFA and at Nestlé MILO, to see how far the
tournament has come as we commemorate its fifth year of existence” says Mandla
‘Shoes’ Mazibuko, President of SASFA.
In
an exciting development for the 2012 tournament, former Bafana Bafana and
Charlton Athletic player, Shaun Bartlett has come on board as the new
Tournament Ambassador. Bartlett, who
enjoyed a successful local and international football career for 15 years,
remains dedicated to his passion for the beautiful game by running his own
children’s football academy in Johannesburg.
The nine provincial champions can look forward to meeting Shaun Bartlett
at the National Final in September.
