The Botswana Football Association (BFA) and Diamond Trading Company Botswana (DTCB) will on Friday 22nd April 2022 kickstart their grassroots Girls Specific Festivals in Jwaneng.
The festivals which were aimed at promoting the women’s games through girls between the ages of 6-12 years by affording them and opportunity to play, have fun and learn life skills through football will commence at the Jwaneng Galaxy Stadium.
The festivals are also a means of developing girls’ specific grassroots centers that will feed youth teams at regional level and increase girls mass production in football.
After Jwaneng the festival will head to Phikwe Regional Football Association on the 22-21 May 2022 before concluding in the Francistown Regional Football Association between 12-13 August 2022
Each region will have a maximum of 80 participants being monitored by 12 trained coaches. 40 girls will be in the Under8 category while 20 will be in the Under10 and Under12 respectively.
BFA Women’s Football Manager Ms. Tsholofelo Setlhoko said the idea came about after an expression of interest by schools
“This is the first of its kind, initially we had visited schools and they were interested in the idea that’s when we partnered with DTCB who sponsored us with P150,000.00 over the three (3) festivals”, concluded Ms. Setlhoko
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