Rolfe House host national 5-a-side tournament
Rolfe House Foyer hosted a 5-a-side tournament for Foyers around the UK in November. 20 Foyers competed, with Birmingham Focus Foyer (top left) retaining the title they won in Chester in 2005. SHYPP (top right) were runners-up, and below one of their players writes about their route to the final:
By Richard Russell, Ross Foyer
We’re SHYPP football team and we’ve been playing as a team for just a bit more than a year. We have played in a few tournaments and a league with nine other foyer teams from within the Midlands.
We dropped out of the league because of arguments within the team mates and I thought we played crap as a team - no passing and no teamwork.
Fortunately, we recently received a grant of £4,500 from the FA to work with our football team. An FA coach came in and taught us to play Footcel - the Brazilian game that Ronhaldinho and Robinho grew up playing.
I’ve got to admit that some of the training we had to do was a load of crap, but now I have seen how it has affected us as a team. The last couple of training sessions I have that we play completely differently and much better.
So we went to the tournament with this training behind us. I was very impressed by how many teams were there - 20 from as far away as Brighton, Torbay and Scarborough. We just went out there and have some fun and we would be happy to get to the quarter finals. We started off with six in our group. We won five and drew one - the training had really paid off!
The quarter finals were much tougher and more physical, but we managed to win 2-1. It was the same in score in the semi-final. So we were in the final, up against Focus Foyer, the holders of the cup. We were pretty knackered and bruised by then, and they were an excellent team, and worth winners of the competition. We were very proud of how we played, and I think that SHYPP could be a force in future!
Laura Parker
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