01 May Vision View Sports Radio launches Mogale High School Football League
The West Rand now has a school football soccer league where the schools can compete and showcase their soccer talents. Vision View Sports Radio launched the Mogale High School Football League in April at Kagiso Senior Secondary School.
The league initiative seeks to create a competitive high performance opportunity for football players and empower school communities to reposition themselves as centres of sporting activity.
The league was inaugurated by a match between Mosupatsela Secondary and Kagiso Senior Secondary, with Mosupatsela going home victorious after beating Kagiso 2–0.
Mafadi Mpuru, Managing Director of Vision View Sports Radio said, “We saw the importance of opening a high school league because we have seen a decline in school sports in the country. We are trying to revive school sport by bringing the league to West Rand. This league will help students to gain more exposure in working as a team, as soccer is not an individual sport.”
The spin-off from the league will include skills transfer in sports, social media management, coaching clinics conducted by former Premier Soccer League players, coaching development programmes and team management by the leading football luminaries in the country.
A football legend who grew up in Kagiso, Joseph ‘Duku Duku’ Makhanya, said he was honoured to be selected as the ambassador of the league.
Joseph, a former Orlando Pirates, Moroka Swallows and Mpumalanga Black Aces player, said, “As an ambassador, my duty is to help the coaches in terms of how to prepare the teams and making sure that when the teams go to the field to compete, they are well trained and fit. Our aim is to get the best players from Mogale City to play at the highest level of football, thus identifying the best of the best to the national league.”
The league will see weekly U/19 football games being played at 10 schools in Mogale City, namely Kagiso Senior Secondary, Mosupatsela Secondary, Lodirile High, N Diederichs Technical High, Townview High School, Thathulwazi Secondary, Madiba High, Mafesa Secondary, Boipelo Intermediate and Mandisa Shiceka High.
We will be keeping you up to tabs about how the teams do in the next coming weeks.