{"id":1084,"date":"2023-04-06T13:18:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T11:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football.supersportschools.com\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2023-04-06T13:18:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T11:18:15","slug":"highlights-of-the-victoria-park-soccer-challenge-held-at-the-dave-weinronk-sports-complex-in-gqeberha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"Highlights of the Victoria Park Soccer Challenge held at the Dave Weinronk Sports Complex in Gqeberha"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victoria Park High School hosted a successful soccer tournament at Dave Weinronk Sports Complex that saw schools coming from all over the country to participate in a three-day tournament. The venue was packed with excitement all over the participants and the supporters and some with clear nervous moments written in their faces.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Schools such as the Northwood travelled all the way from the KZN province to Gqeberha\/Port Elizabeth for the tournament. It was the school’s first participation in the tournament, and they won U18 Plate Final, defeating Sanctor by 2 goals to nil. Speaking to Mini Khoza, the director of Soccer at Northwood he could not express how grateful he was for his school to not only be invited to the Victoria Park Soccer Challenge but to actually walk away with something. \u201cAs you can see, the boys are happy that they have come to participate, and I am proud of their achievement. Hopefully, next year we can walk away with everything as champions of the Victoria Soccer Challenge\u201d, he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The home side, Victoria Park High School U16 thumped Hudson Park by 4 goals to nil in the U16 Final Cup. The home side fans packed up the grounds in full support of their team and the side did not disappoint as they took the game under full control in the early stages of the game. By the time it was the 2<\/span>nd<\/span> half, Victoria Park were clear favourites to win the U16 Final Cup. Coming into the 2<\/span>nd<\/span> half of the game, Hudson Park showed signs of competing and making a comeback however, the home side proved to be too much for them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Another final that was entertaining that had everyone in full joy was between Alexandra Road and Vulumzi Senior Secondary School. Anathi Ndorho was the outstanding player for the game as she terrorised Alexandra defenders on the left wing. With jersey number eleven on her, she became a clear fan favourite of the fans in the stands as she showed skills, clean passes and in total control of the game. Anathi Ndorho was the top goal scorer of the tournament with nine goals. Together with her team, they thumped Alexandra Road by 5 goals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

First team winners U18 boys, Urban Academy, played against Selborne College from East London. Both teams held each other to a 1-1 draw, leaving the game to the penalties, where Urban Academy won by 5-4 to walk away as champions of the Victoria Park Soccer Challenge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Victoria Park High School hosted a successful soccer tournament at Dave Weinronk Sports Complex that saw schools coming from all over the country to participate in a three-day tournament. The venue was packed with excitement all over the participants and the supporters and some with clear nervous moments written in their faces.\u00a0\u00a0 Schools such as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_canvas","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}