IKF Africa Year of Youth Event Finished
Saturday 28 September is the IKF Year of Youth 2013 event in IKF AFrica finished with the last clinics.
A whole week several korfball activities were held in Harare (Zimbabwe).
The week started with clinics for coaches and referees, conducted by Mr Riko Kruit and Mr Theo van der Linde. The 23 participants were coming from Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It was a group with mixed experiences and skills, some are involved in korfball in their country for some time yet, and others had no experience at all. It was a challenge for the instructors to keep the clinics for all participants and they succeeded.
Thursday and Friday was the IKF Africa Year of Youth U19 tournament. Unfortunately both Botswana and Mozambique could not realize to send a representative team and had to withdraw. Because of this the U19 teams of Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa played a full competition these two days. The most experienced South African Under 19 squad finished tops at the first ever regional Zone Six Youth Korfball Tournament, making a clean sweep of victory in all their four matches.
As side event during the International Tournament a school korfball tournament outside the sports hall was held. Here could be seen the future for Africa (e.g. Zimbabwe) is sunny, the young players were very enthusiastic, but also showed having already good korfball skills.
As said on Saturday the last clinics were conducted and all teams were going home in knowledge they were part of a historic event.
The press attended the clinics as well the tournament. Friday evening Zimbabwean Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) did spend about 10 minutes at prime time to show korfball nationwide.
Also national newspapers reported and were lyric in their reaction.
We strongly believe this event will show to be a big step in development on the African continent.
| Results IKF Africa Year of Youth U19 Tournament | ||||
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26-sep |
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| Zimbabwe | Zambia | 9 – 3 | ||
| Zambia | South Africa | 5 – 15 | ||
| Zimbabwe | South Africa | 5 – 17 | ||
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27-sep |
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| South Africa | Zimbabwe | 13 – 4 | ||
| South Africa | Zambia | 18 – 0 | ||
| Zambia | Zimbabwe | 5 – 9 | ||
| Ranking | ||||
| # matches | points | scored | against | |
| South Africa |
4 |
12 |
63 |
14 |
| Zimbabwe |
4 |
6 |
27 |
38 |
| Zambia |
4 |
0 |
13 |
51 |
