{"id":82340,"date":"2015-03-02T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/82340\/city-comes-out-tops-during-round-robin\/"},"modified":"2015-03-02T14:05:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T12:05:45","slug":"city-comes-out-tops-during-round-robin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/03\/02\/city-comes-out-tops-during-round-robin\/","title":{"rendered":"City comes out tops during round robin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston City Football Club Super League and Super League Reserve sides completed the pre-season by not losing a game.<\/p>\n<p>Germiston City, Kempton, Edenvale and Olympia played a round robin over the weekend, with City&#8217;s first squad drawing to Edenvale 1 -1, beating Kempton Park 4-2 and beating Olympia 3-0.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Germiston topped the standings with seven points, with Kempton Park coming second.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a great moral booster for City with the new Super League One starting on March 7,&#8221; said the club&#8217;s communications officer, Peter Oliver.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Our opening game is away to Old Bens, winners of the Super League Two last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Senior coaches, Len van Rooyen and Sreten Pavlovich, are very excited, saying that during the warm-up tournaments, the players showed they are up to holding their own against tough opposition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is still room for improvement and as the season unfolds, the test will become tougher.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oliver said City&#8217;s reserves side also performed well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reserves won their tournament without dropping a point, beating all three opponents and scoring ten goals and conceding two,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coach Pavlovich has been happy with the team&#8217;s performance throughout the tournament, he is happy with the preparation, but also acknowledges room for improvement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other news, the City&#8217;s juniors have already started with training.<\/p>\n<p>Training takes place every Tuesday and Thursday from 5pm to 7pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be an open day on Sunday, March 8, specifically aimed at the parents to discuss taking the club forward,&#8221; explained Oliver.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are still looking for coaches and players, and any interested parties are welcome to join us at the open day, from 9am to noon, at the Delville Sports Ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact Oliver on 076 431 2391.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Related articles: \u00a0http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/81861\/germiston-city-fc-ready-for-the-season\/<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/80509\/tournament-to-test-local-sides-skills\/<\/p>\n<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='43c2872b929f4e64e31828b133b59105'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston City FC&#8217;s senior teams conquer warm-up tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":82347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[1589,1106,979,1791,2649,969,6247,6603,6040,6604,2749,1163,1119,1724,1792],"class_list":["post-82340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-football","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-fc","tag-germiston-city-football-club","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-local-sport-news","tag-local-sport-stories","tag-local-sports-news","tag-local-sports-stories","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-soccer","tag-sport-2","tag-sports","tag-super-league"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["football","GCN","germiston","Germiston City FC","Germiston City Football Club","germiston city news","local sport news","Local sport stories","Local Sports News","Local sports stories","Puleng Sekabate","soccer","sport","sports","Super League"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82340","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=82340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}