Fabulous prizes in Zama-Zama Soccer Challenge

The preliminary-round matches for this year’s edition of the annual Zama-Zama Soccer Challenge will be played at the Homu 14 B grounds tomorrow. This year’s tournament will be the biggest in terms of the number of participating teams and the prizes at stake.

According to the founder and sponsor, Mr Victor Hlungwani, 36 teams will take part in this year’s event. Hlungwani said that eight of the teams would take part in the preliminary-round matches to determine the teams that will battle it out in the last-32 stage of the prestigious tournament.

The preliminary-round fixtures are: Hammy FC vs Gimbo FC, Ngove Maspala vs Gezani United, Homu 14C United vs Emmanuel FC and Xikombelo FC vs Ngove Leeds. The semi-finals and final are scheduled for Tuesday, 31 December.

This year’s champions will take home R40 000, a floating trophy and gold medals. The runners-up will receive R20 000 and silver medals. Teams booted out of the tournament in the semi-final stage will each receive R10 000.

More information regarding the tournament can be obtained by phoning the tournament director, Mr Joel Baloyi, on 078 885 1112 or Mr Victor Hlungwani on 083 592 7305.

Date:13 December 2019

By: Frank Mavhungu

Frank is a Human Resources Manager at the Department of Public Works in Limpopo. He is the longest serving correspondent of the Mirror, having joined us at the end of 1990.  He mainly writes sports reports and resides at Tsianda Village. In 2004, Frank won the National Castle League Award, an award for the best reporter in the SAB league in South Africa.

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