Twin towns host soccer tournament

Football players under the age of eighteen from the Cayo District will get an opportunity to take part in an international soccer tournament. Organisers of the annual San Ignacio/Santa Elena Municipal fair have included a quadrangular tournament as part of the event scheduled for next weekend. According to sports coordinator for the Town Council, Earl Trapp, juvenile teams from Honduras, Guatemala and Los Angeles, California, will visit the Norman Broaster Stadium in San Ignacio to take on a team of under eighteen players from around the district.

Earl Trapp, Sports Coordinator
?The people can expect good football. And as well from the exchange what the people can expect is that the team, especially the team from Los Angeles, they are bringing twelve set of jerseys that they will be donating to schools in the immediate area. So we have identified twelve schools that will be getting uniforms that they can use for their upcoming football tournaments.?

Patrick Jones
?What will something like this do for the sport of football and for the country on a whole??

Earl Trapp
?For the country and for sports it will help develop youths in Belize. As well, it will expose our youths internationally and I hope that at the end of this tournament some of our youths will be pointed out as potential players to go and play internationally and at the same time they will be able to get scholarships.?

The visiting teams will start arriving in the country on Monday, with team U.S.A. being the first to arrive. Trapp says the tournament will open next Thursday evening with Guatemala playing Honduras, followed by team U.S.A. taking on the Belize selection. Admission to the stadium for the games is set at seven dollars general admission. High School students pay five dollars and children two dollars. Boys and girls under the age of eleven years enter for free.