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THE Western Cape Handball Association of South Africa, have officially extended an invitation to Zimbabwean teams who they would like to participate in the inaugural Young Masters Cup tournament that will take place in the Mother City from August 14-16.
The tournament, which is designed for the Under-16 and 18 age-groups for both boys and girls, is being organised by GeBe Education and Sports Foundation of Germany in partnership with Cape Town’s Young Masters Handball Club and the Western Cape Handball Association.
Nikelo Xayiya, the development officer of the Western Cape Handball Association, yesterday said they were inviting junior handball teams from Zimbabwe to take part in this tournament which they are organising as part of their efforts to develop the sport in the Southern African region.
“The Western Cape Handball Association (WCHA) would like to extend the warmest welcome to all Zimbabwean handball teams who are interested in participating in the first annual multi-national handball tournament to be held at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology from August 14 –16,” said Xayiya in a letter sent yesterday to the president of the Zimbabwe Handball Federation, Amon Madzvamuse.
He also said his association and the GeBe Education and Sports Foundation will also be holding a coaching course that will be conducted by a top coach from the German Handball Federation during this tournament.
“Interested Zimbabwean coaches are also invited to take part in this coaching course but they will have to apply through the ZHF’’.
Apart from Zimbabwe, Xayiya said they have also invited teams from Mozambique, Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana, Namibia and Zambia to take part in the Young Masters Cup tournament where they will be joined by a number of handball sides drawn from Cape Town and throughout South Africa.
Bernd Wulffen, the founder and director of the GeBe Education and Sports Foundation, also said they decided to help the Western Cape Handball Association in organising this tournament in their efforts to promote the development of handball at grassroots level in the Southern African region.
“On behalf of GeBe Foundation it is my great pleasure to extend our warmest welcome to all the participants, guests and friends to the annual Young Masters Cup International Handball Tournament to be held for the first time in Cape Town, South Africa, from August 14–16.
“We wish all the teams and supporters the best of luck and much success. We hope that the participation, camaraderie, friendly competition and fair play remain the guiding principles of this historical tournament,” Wulffen said from Cape Town yesterday.
Madzvamuse said they are already in the process of identifying teams and the coaches who will attend both the inaugural Young Masters Cup tournament and the coaching course in Cape Town in August.
The ZHF president said the teams that will take part in this tournament will be selected from the NASH game
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