{"id":46310,"date":"2013-10-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/46310\/thrills-and-spills-at-local-tournament\/"},"modified":"2013-10-22T09:50:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T07:50:55","slug":"thrills-and-spills-at-local-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2013\/10\/14\/thrills-and-spills-at-local-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrills and spills at local tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third annual Elsburg Jomo Cosmos Football Club Tournament took place at the Elspark Sports Grounds, on October 12 and 13.<\/p>\n<p>Teams from u-7 to u-17 from all over came in numbers to showcase their talent, playing top notch football and giving the spectators nail-biting games to watch.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Germiston City FC, Elsburg Jomo Cosmos FC, Zamalek FC and Alex Development were some of the teams who participated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The aim of the tournament was to promote positive behaviour through football and also to expose players to teams they don&#8217;t necessarily play against, while creating a day of fun for all involved,&#8221; said Moonira Ramathula, chairman and communications officer of Elsburg Jomo Cosmos FC.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Players came in full force in every match determined to win.<\/p>\n<p>There was a minor glitch at the tournament, as three teams were disqualified for age cheating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Elsburg Jomo Cosmos FC is very serious about development and encouraging proper channels of development,&#8221; Ramathula added.<\/p>\n<p>The disqualification didn&#8217;t stop the fun, because the rest of the teams carried on with the chase.<\/p>\n<p>The u-7 Germiston FC team was one of the outstanding sides at the tournament, as they not only played extremely well but also had recently won the u-7 Milan League.<\/p>\n<p>They won all their games played in the league and lost no match at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>With their outstanding performance at the tournament, one could see just how they managed to sail through the league.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of it all, the score read as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0u-7 winners: Germiston City FC, runners-up: Brazilian Soccer Schools<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0u-8 winners: Brazilian Soccer Schools, runners up: Sunward Tigers<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0u-9 winners: Elsburg Jomo Cosmos, runners up: Farramere Primary<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0u-10 winners: Zamalek FC, runners up: Brazilian Soccer Schools<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0u-11 winners: Alex Development, runners up: Birch Acres FC<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0u-12 winners: Brazilian Soccer Schools, runners up: Elsburg Jomo Cosmos<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0u-13 winners: Brazilian Soccer Schools, runners up: Real Midrand<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0u-15 winners: Alex Development, runners up: Germiston City FC<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0u-17 winners: Agape International, runners up: Leondale United<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='cde3137a12d0a821fe6657c5a5292bfd'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third annual Elsburg Jomo Cosmos FC tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":46372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Puleng Sekabate","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[1318,1733,1736,1589,979,1163,1724,1734],"class_list":["post-46310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-elsburg","tag-elsburg-jomo-cosmos-fc","tag-elspark-sports-grounds","tag-football","tag-germiston","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-tournament"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["elsburg","Elsburg Jomo Cosmos FC","Elspark Sports Grounds","football","germiston","soccer","sports","tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}