‘My 2010 School Adventure' campaign hots up
For thousands of South African school pupils, being a part of - and participating in - the FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 is becoming more and more real after a weekend of provincial schools football action - all under the auspices of the ‘My 2010 School Adventure' campaign, an initiative of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee South Africa, Department of Education and Sport and Recreation South Africa.
As part of the ‘Adopt a Nation' element of the schools campaign, all South Africa's provincial schools two weeks ago symbolically ‘adopted' the competing FIFA Confederations Cup teams, namely the champions of FIFA's six Confederations Brazil, Egypt, Spain, the SA, Iraq and New Zealand, as well as reigning world champions Italy and 2010 hosts South Africa.
Each province will now learn more about the culture, football, geography and music etc of the countries they adopted. Another element of the 2010 schools campaign is thousands of schools participating in provincial Confederations Cup football tournament, with the winners qualifying for next year's national Confederations Cup schools tournament, to be held in March next year.
To date, 7957 schools from 81 districts across SA's nine provinces have already registered for the schools Confederations Cup football competition, with a chance to participate on a national scale and also the incentive of winning match tickets to the FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 in June next year. Five provincial schools football finals took place in Gauteng, Limpopo, Eastern Cape, Kwazulu-Natal and Northern Cape this past weekend.
For more information on ‘My 2010 School Adventure', go to www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=890677.html#sa+pupils+adopt+confederations+cup+countries.
