New five-a-side league proves to be a success
There is a new way to play football at Christ Church
For many years Christ Church has always had numerous amounts of sports society and sport teams. And this year, there is a new sport society being started up, a society with no restrictions.
CCCU 5’s is a new five-a-side football league started up through the University by three-second year students. Its run as a mini-league, with 12 teams, playing against each other through out the academic year, winner takes all; with everything in-between such as a January transfer window, player of the year award and a top goal scorer award. So far hundreds of students, from all years, have signed up and all is in place for the start of the mini-league season.
In past years at Christ Church football has always been in plentiful supply with eight 11 a-side teams being formed last year. However due to financial difficulties this year the University were only able to allocate four teams in to the sufficient leagues leaving hundreds of hopefuls disappointed.
Ben Braou, President of CCCU 5’s, is confident of success as he is experience in the field “this isn’t actually my first time at running a five-a-side mini league, in college I set one up, I have learnt from my mistakes and put that in to practice this time round”.
However, question marks surround the league’s financial status, "with three students running the whole project, yes, financially we may struggle" continued Braou "we have got in contact with many companies, locally and regionally, for sponsorship but so far we haven’t had much luck". Secretary Stephen Staunton saw the lighter side on the matter "we’re all just hoping for a foreign oil investment company to come and invest in the league then we’ll be fine".
Speaking to the students who will be taking part in CCCU 5’s mini-league there seems to be a strong distinguished sense of excitement about the new football society. Joe Daly said that the diverse ability’s in the mini-league played a strong roll in him getting involved “it allows us to compete in sport in which levels of ability doesn’t matter compared to the 11-a-side football teams where ability is everything”.
By Samuel Francis
Ben Braou, President of CCCU 5’s, is confident of success as he is experience in the field “this isn’t actually my first time at running a five-a-side mini league, in college I set one up, I have learnt from my mistakes and put that in to practice this time round”.
However, question marks surround the league’s financial status, "with three students running the whole project, yes, financially we may struggle" continued Braou "we have got in contact with many companies, locally and regionally, for sponsorship but so far we haven’t had much luck". Secretary Stephen Staunton saw the lighter side on the matter "we’re all just hoping for a foreign oil investment company to come and invest in the league then we’ll be fine".
Speaking to the students who will be taking part in CCCU 5’s mini-league there seems to be a strong distinguished sense of excitement about the new football society. Joe Daly said that the diverse ability’s in the mini-league played a strong roll in him getting involved “it allows us to compete in sport in which levels of ability doesn’t matter compared to the 11-a-side football teams where ability is everything”.
By Samuel Francis
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