PrintYoungsters from Tanzania played soccer with NIRAS as sponsor
NIRAS-sponsored MTWARA’S youth soccer team, FC Vito, from Tanzania competed
in the 33rd Helsinki U-11 tournament in Finland in the first week of July.
The 11-years old youngsters were positioned third in their group with two
wins, one draw and two losses. Teams' top scorer has been Yusufu Hamidu
with five goals. Altogether FC Vito has scored 14 goals and allowed 12.
FC Vito Nanyumbu is part of a sports development project jointly run by
LiiKE Finland and Sports Development Aid (SDA) in Mtwara. More than 830
youth teams from 28 different countries across the world, including Brazil,
Spain, Turkey, Russia and Korea, competed in the championship opening in
Helsinki.
The team is popularly known as Nanyumbu Boys and its 13 players had been
training for the past eight months in preparations for the week-long
event.
FC Vito has participated in the Helsinki tournament since 2000. In 2000 and
2006, the team won bronze medals.
The team’s trip is sponsored by Abbasi Exports, CEAL Ltd, Orange
Technologies, the Finish Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Finland’s Ministry of
Education and Amer Sports, and NIRAS among others.
