Masters sponsor yet another Alex tournament

HOT on the heels of the successful U15 Spring Championships, the Alexandra Master Soccer League will be sponsoring yet another soccer tournament, this time for the U13 teams.

Chairperson of the Alexandra Northrand Local Football Association, Maisha Molepo, said the masters league had agreed to sponsor The Year-End Tournament, whose preliminary games start on 8 November, with the last 16 matches held the following day.

Molepo said both the qualifying games and the last 16 will take place at Three Square Sports Facility, with the final provisional set for 5 December at the Altrek Sports Ground.

“I am so delighted to have yet another tournament for the children. These tournaments auger well for our development plans, as you have just witnessed the abundance of talent in the just ended Discovery Alex Schools Football League,” said a visibly delighted Molepo, who added that the proof of the pudding was in the success the township was enjoying in the inter-local football association and Safa regional league tournaments.

With the help of the masters league, Molepo said, Alex football will go a long way towards restoring the glory days when the township was on top of all sports and creative industry activities in Johannesburg and the country at large.

In yester-years, Alexandra was the incubator of all forms of talent, be it in the music industry – such as the Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens – or the theatre space, the dance arena, the boxing ring or the football pitch. In as much as people had to trek to Jozi for fame in those years, the epicentre of that fame was ‘Dark City’, as Alex was known before the advent of electricity.

Molepo appealed to the community to again come in their numbers to support their children “as we endeavour to bring back the glory years of Alexandra and put the township back where it belongs – the epicentre of all things good”.