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Hmm Agegroup is 13 to 19, I wonder if we could also send an all manning and all dacosta cup team?
Essex Valley boys reach final of Norway Cup
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Members of the Alpart/Essex Valley schoolboy football team shortly after arrival at the Norman Manley Airport. With hands on trophy are coach Andrew Bennet (right) and team captain Kaneil Harrison (centre).
The Alpart/Essex Valley schoolboy footballers returned home on Monday, August 4, with a silver trophy for second place in the 12-14-year-old category of the 2008 Norway Cup tournament.
The team scored 22 goals for and eight against in clinching the runner-up spot out of 256 junior club teams, and worked their way through the preliminary rounds into the rounds of 128, 64, 32, 16, and eight teams before bowing 0-4 to Pequeninos of Brazil in the final.
In doing so, they achieved a first for Essex Valley teams which on previous attempts managed to reach the quarter-finals once in 1999.
An elated coach, Andrew Bent, attributed the performance to determination, sticking to the game plan, and maintaining a disciplined approach.
Additionally, he feels that some good talent has been unearthed and that his boys will form the bedrock of daCosta Cup and parish teams, and will "provide a nursery for Jamaica's football as earlier Essex teams did with Lovell Palmer and a number of other senior players".
The Norway Cup takes place in Oslo in the northern European country each July and is an invitational junior club tournament.
Said to be the world's largest football tournament, it attracted a record 1,500 teams (most from Norway) from 50 countries this year.
Matches are played on 28 football fields laid out at Ekeberg just outside Oslo, with thousands following the match schedules from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm each day for the tournament week from July 27 to August 2.
The participants were placed in 12 categories, boys and girls, aged 13 to 19 years.
The Jamaican team is selected from communities and schools in the St Elizabeth Essex Valley of Alpart's operations, stretching to Malvern and South Manchester.
The boys, sponsored by Alpart and one of its partner/owners Hydro Aluminium of Norway, are hosted by Hydro along with three other teams associated with Hydro's operations at Alunorte, Yara in Brazil and from Slovakia.
Hydro's vice-president, Jon Larsen, says that the Jamaican team captured the imagination of the football crowd and was very popular in Norway.
They performed a cultural reggae item during the Concert Hour at Ekeberg which went down well with the international audience.
Alpart's managing director, Alberto Fabrini, was scheduled to host a reception for the players and their parents at the Alpart Sports Club yesterday.
Essex Valley boys reach final of Norway Cup
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Members of the Alpart/Essex Valley schoolboy football team shortly after arrival at the Norman Manley Airport. With hands on trophy are coach Andrew Bennet (right) and team captain Kaneil Harrison (centre).The Alpart/Essex Valley schoolboy footballers returned home on Monday, August 4, with a silver trophy for second place in the 12-14-year-old category of the 2008 Norway Cup tournament.
The team scored 22 goals for and eight against in clinching the runner-up spot out of 256 junior club teams, and worked their way through the preliminary rounds into the rounds of 128, 64, 32, 16, and eight teams before bowing 0-4 to Pequeninos of Brazil in the final.
In doing so, they achieved a first for Essex Valley teams which on previous attempts managed to reach the quarter-finals once in 1999.
An elated coach, Andrew Bent, attributed the performance to determination, sticking to the game plan, and maintaining a disciplined approach.
Additionally, he feels that some good talent has been unearthed and that his boys will form the bedrock of daCosta Cup and parish teams, and will "provide a nursery for Jamaica's football as earlier Essex teams did with Lovell Palmer and a number of other senior players".
The Norway Cup takes place in Oslo in the northern European country each July and is an invitational junior club tournament.
Said to be the world's largest football tournament, it attracted a record 1,500 teams (most from Norway) from 50 countries this year.
Matches are played on 28 football fields laid out at Ekeberg just outside Oslo, with thousands following the match schedules from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm each day for the tournament week from July 27 to August 2.
The participants were placed in 12 categories, boys and girls, aged 13 to 19 years.
The Jamaican team is selected from communities and schools in the St Elizabeth Essex Valley of Alpart's operations, stretching to Malvern and South Manchester.
The boys, sponsored by Alpart and one of its partner/owners Hydro Aluminium of Norway, are hosted by Hydro along with three other teams associated with Hydro's operations at Alunorte, Yara in Brazil and from Slovakia.
Hydro's vice-president, Jon Larsen, says that the Jamaican team captured the imagination of the football crowd and was very popular in Norway.
They performed a cultural reggae item during the Concert Hour at Ekeberg which went down well with the international audience.
Alpart's managing director, Alberto Fabrini, was scheduled to host a reception for the players and their parents at the Alpart Sports Club yesterday.
Paul Marin -19 is one thing, 20 is a whole other matter. It gets even worse if they win the UCL. *groan*. 
05/18/2011.MU fans naah cough, but all a unuh a vomit?-Lazie 1/11/2015
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