Mumbles Rangers Girls Football

The tournament was set up with a league of 4 teams & a league 3 teams - albeit we turned up with 17 - yes 17 players from which I had to pick a squad of 10 players. We asked if we could enter two teams (just for the matches) but the league officials refused (even though the other teams agreed for us to play in the tournament with 2 sides).

There was obvious disappointment for the 7 left out - but they played 4 matches in friendlies winning 1, drawing 1, & losing 2. They did extremely well with Laura & Lotti scoring our goals.

As for the tournament, we were drawn in the hardest league with Dafen, Garden Village & Llangyfelach. Matches were 7 mins each way. Pontlliw, Landore & Bancffosfelin were in the other division.

We won our first match V Dafen (the first time we have beaten them & only the second game they have lost in 22 matches this season). Katie Davies scored the winner early in the first half.

In game 2, we played Garden Village to whom we lost 2-0. As much as we tried to convince the girls the tournament was won by beating Dafen, they never really got going.

We knew we had to win the last game to stand a chance of going to the semi's & the girls really stepped up their performance. We beat Llangyfelach 4-0 with Katie Davies scoring 3 & Lauren Nash scoring her first ever goal.

With all the matches played in the league section, we got through to the semi's on goal difference with Garden Village - with Dafen the favourites missing out.

We played Pontlliw in the semi achieving a 0-0 result. It then went into golden goal situation in a 3 min each way extra time. We scored 2 minutes into the game only to find the the ball had already gone out for a goal kick!

The game therefore continued & with 1 min left Becky Hughes hit a rasper for Mumbles to win 1-0 with the golden goal.

We met Garden Village again in the final, in a close encounter. We gave everything we had & more but it wasn't enough to beat them as they scored to win 1-0. I think after 5 matches we were a little more drained then they were.

The girls were delighted to get to be runners up in the competition & were duly awarded their medals at the end of the game.

Thanks go to Richard in but in particular all the parents who understood the difficult position of choosing a squad of 10 & helping soften the blow for the 7 who couldn't play in the squad.

The girls who missed selection have been promised to play as the first team next week in our first game.

Dave Nash U10 Manager

Girls football training (all ages) every Sunday 10-11.30, if you are interested in playing or want to know more then please turn up with a parent/guardian by 10.00am. Meet in Billy Johns Clubhouse

Additionally we are looking for ladies who would like to manage a team and possibly undertake the Welsh FA Football Leaders Award.

Pictures from the recent Underhill 2000 Girls Soccer Tournament held on 24th September 2005

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