{"id":53259,"date":"2024-07-23T10:35:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T08:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=53259"},"modified":"2024-07-23T10:35:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T08:35:48","slug":"countdown-on-to-carter-high-schools-inaugural-soccer-super-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=53259","title":{"rendered":"Countdown on to Carter High School&#8217;s inaugural Soccer Super Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_53278\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53278\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53278 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/football-carter-230724-400x274.jpg\" alt=\"The hosts, Carter High School, will be one of the favourites to lift the Soccer Super Cup title.\" width=\"400\" height=\"274\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The hosts, Carter High School, will be one of the favourites to lift the Soccer Super Cup title.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Carter High School<\/strong> is set to host its inaugural <strong>Soccer Super Cup <\/strong>on 27 July. The event brings together eight schools from Pietermaritzburg and its surrounds.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts have earned themselves a reputation as one of the top football-playing schools in the region and are the team to beat.<\/p>\n<p>In the second term, they proved their pedigree by beating Maritzburg College to be <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/ntuthuko-mngunis-goal-wins-carter-the-kzn-inland-championship\/\">crowned the champions of the KZN High Schools Football Association&#8217;s Inland League.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Their run to the title also included an impressive win over the <strong>Red, Black and White<\/strong> in the round robin stage of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>After back-to-back defeats to Carter, however, College beat them 2-1 in the most recent meeting of the sides, on 20 July, with <strong>Malachi Momple<\/strong> striking twice for the winners.<\/p>\n<p>Maritzburg College, though, won&#8217;t be in action in the Soccer Super Cup. They&#8217;ll be participating in the <strong>Primo Big 10<\/strong> at Hilton College, which brings together 10 of the top teams from traditional boys&#8217; school in KZN.<\/p>\n<p>Carter will be led by <strong>Ntuthuko Mnguni<\/strong>, whose influence includes as a leader and a top performer. They&#8217;re, arguably, the odds-on favourites to win the event.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll be challenged by <strong>Linpark, Haythorne, ML Sultan, St Nicholas, Heritage, Wartburg<\/strong> and <strong>Ixopo High School<\/strong>. The latter, among the challengers, will bear close watching. They caught the eye during the KZN High Schools Football Association&#8217;s Inland League during the second term.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alexandra High<\/strong>, though, achieved one of the most notable recent results, handing Maritzburg College a big 4-1 defeat just over a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>With a busy schedule and a short amount of time to recover between games, fitness is sure to be a crucial factor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>u19 Super Cup fixtures\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>09:00 &#8211; 09:30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Field 1 &#8211; Carter vs Wartburg<br \/>\nField 2 &#8211; Heritage vs Linpark<br \/>\nField 3 &#8211; Ixopo vs Alexandra High School<br \/>\nField 4 &#8211; ML Sultan vs Haythorne<\/p>\n<p><strong>09:45 &#8211; 10:15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Field 1 &#8211; Carter High School vs Heritage<br \/>\nField 2 &#8211; Linpark vs Wartburg<br \/>\nField 3 &#8211; Ixopo vs ML Sultan<br \/>\nField 4 &#8211; Haythorne vs Alexandra High School<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:30 &#8211; 11:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Field 1 &#8211; Carter vs Linpark<br \/>\nField 2 &#8211; Wartburg vs Heritage<br \/>\nField 3 &#8211; Ixopo vs Haythorne<br \/>\nField4 &#8211; Alexandra High School vs ML Sultan<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:30 &#8211; 12:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Field 1 &#8211; Winner Pool A vs 2nd Pool B<br \/>\nField 2 &#8211; Winner Pool B vs 2nd Pool A<br \/>\nField 3 &#8211; Winner Pool A u16 vs 2nd Pool B u16<br \/>\nField 4 &#8211; Winner Pool B u16 vs 2nd Pool A u16<\/p>\n<p><strong>u16 fixtures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>09:00 &#8211; 09:20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Field 5 &#8211; Carter vs Kokstad<br \/>\nField 6 &#8211; Alexandra vs ML Sultan<\/p>\n<p><strong>09:25- 09:45<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Field 5 &#8211; Ixopo vs St Nicholas<br \/>\nField 6 &#8211; Haythorne vs Wartburg<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00- 10:20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Field 5 &#8211; Carter vs St Nicholas<br \/>\nField 6 &#8211; Alexandra vs Haythorne<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:25 &#8211; 10:45<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Field 5 &#8211; Kokstad vs Ixopo<br \/>\nField 6 &#8211; ML Sultan vs Wartburg<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:05- 11:25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Field 1 &#8211; Carter vs Ixopo<br \/>\nField 2 &#8211; Kokstad vs St Nicholas<br \/>\nField 3 &#8211; Alexandra vs Wartburg<br \/>\nField 4 &#8211; ML Sultan vs Haythorne<\/p>\n<p><strong>12:15 &#8211; 12:50<\/strong><br \/>\nu16 Final<\/p>\n<p><strong>13:00 &#8211; 13:45<\/strong><br \/>\nu19 Final<\/p>\n<p><strong>13:45 &#8211; 14:00<\/strong><br \/>\nPrize Giving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carter High School is set to host its inaugural Soccer Super Cup on 27 July. The event brings together eight schools from Pietermaritzburg and its surrounds. The hosts have earned themselves a reputation as one of the top football-playing schools in the region and are the team to beat. In the second term, they proved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":53278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53259","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\/53259","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=53259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}