{"id":24962,"date":"2013-03-13T13:56:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T13:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/?p=24962"},"modified":"2016-10-18T14:03:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:03:57","slug":"new-directions-support-for-wirral-girls-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/2013\/03\/new-directions-support-for-wirral-girls-football\/","title":{"rendered":"New Directions Liverpool Support Wirral Girl\u2019s Football Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Directions Education were delighted to be able to support Tranmere Rovers Football Club in the Community scheme recently by sponsoring their primary schools girls soccer tournament.\u00a0 The\u00a0 Football League Division 1 club were seeking a sponsor for their highly successful competition and New Directions Education\u00a0were pleased to come to their aid.\u00a0 The company have a long tradition of supporting primary school soccer in Wales where they have their headquarters, and wanted \u00a0to extend the scheme to their other branches which are situated throughout the UK.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Steve Williams, Tranmere\u2019s Community Manager said &#8220;\u2019We were delighted when New Directions approached us to see if they could help support primary school sports, and football in particular, on the Wirral. Everyone hopes this will be the start of a long partnership between the club and community scheme and New Directions.\u00a0 I know their team really enjoyed coming along to watch the games, which were very competitive.\u2019\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The qualifying \u00a0matches were played at Pensby High School over two nights before the 20 teams were\u00a0whittled down to four. The finalists were\u00a0New Brighton, Riverside, Somerville and Liscard.\u00a0 These four schools then fought it out at the same venue on March 8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0 for the honour of representing Wirral Borough and the club at the Merseyside Youth\u00a0 Games later this year.\u00a0 After some extremely competitive \u00a0football in dreadful conditions Somerville\u00a0emerged as winners, seeing off local rivals Liscard in a pulsating final. New Directions Education\u00a0funding meant the finalists were able to receive medals and trophies, and nobody went away empty handed as there\u00a0were\u00a0certificates for all who took part.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lisa Harper, the New Directions Liverpool branch manager, was delighted at the success of the tournament \u2018\u2019 This is the first time we have been able to get involved with primary school sport in the Wirral and with Tranmere Rovers FC. We hope that it is the start of a long term relationship with the club and community scheme.\u2019\u2019\u00a0\u00a0Jen Morrison, who is the account manager for Wirral primary schools said \u2018\u2019 I really enjoyed the opportunity to see some of our schools battling it out in the qualifiers, and it was a real pleasure to meet some of the headteachers, teachers and parents pitch side cheering on their teams.\u2019\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/files\/Liscard_Runner-Up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25055 alignright\" alt=\"Liscard_Runner Up\" src=\"https:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/files\/Liscard_Runner-Up-300x138.jpg\" width=\"305\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/files\/Somerville_Winners-web-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25056 alignleft\" alt=\"Somerville_Winners 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