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Know your score In 2010, TransCape held an 8-month event called the ‘TransCape Rural Soccer Challenge 2010 (TRSC10)’. This event included 15 soccer tournaments consisting of 60 South African soccer teams and 1 international soccer club called ‘Kensington Dragons’ from London, England. The purpose of these tournaments was to share HIV awareness messages to each community and provide voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) beside the soccer field. During these amazing 8-months over 1,200 people took part in VCT and got involved in TransCape’s larger HIV program.
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Rural soccer: be prepared for the unexpected
Being a rural area the challenges are also very real on the field with holes, hills, long-grass, animals and rocks as regular objects of distraction. Barbed-wire and electrical cables have also been known to feature at one of the venues close-by. In one of our matches, as the game was reaching 2 to 1, it was abruptly interrupted by a cow who was in distress and stormed on the pitch. Players and supporters alike stopped the game momentarily to help the cow give birth to a calf and then resumed the game.
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When the excitement of this event was still fresh, the ‘Tshani Soccer League (TSL)’ launched its first official season in July 2010. This league consisted of 7 local teams and now in its second season consists of 12 men’s teams, which includes over 300 active players. |
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Sports Education
TransCape have used the tangible structure of the league to support several courses run by a local voluntary teacher throughout season 1 and 2. These courses are designed to encourage players, coaches and officials to improve their knowledge of the rules of the game as well as improve their literacy, management and communication skills.
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