Gemma Stephens

Gemma Stephens

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Monday, 10 March 2014

One World Futbol Launch



Recently the entire Academy travelled into Freetown for the Launch of One World Futbol in Sierra Leone. Several thousand indestructible footballs have been donated to Sierra Leone and the government has allocated 7000 to CBF. This is fantastic news for the CBF League and the footballs will shortly be distributed out to the teams.
As part of the Launch a presentation day was held at the National Stadium. As usual the first several hours were taken up with a parade, a lot of waiting around and what felt like severe hundred speeches but eventually the football games began.

There were adult teams, premier league teams, the CBF boys, disabled teams and particularly impressively the Ladies police team played the Ladies army team.


The CBF boys played for about 30 minutes and actually lost 1-0 but it was great for them to play at the National Stadium.