{"id":36550,"date":"2014-02-03T16:14:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T16:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/?p=36550"},"modified":"2016-10-18T14:02:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:02:22","slug":"premier-league-schools-football-tournament-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/2014\/02\/premier-league-schools-football-tournament-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League Schools Football Tournament 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday the 31st January saw the launch of the Premier League schools tournament in South Wales at the House of Sport in Cardiff. The tournament is being \u00a0held in conjunction with Cardiff City Football club and New Directions Education and will feature schools across South Wales.<\/p>\n<p>The mixed competition this year is being run as part of the Premier League Schools Tournament after Cardiff City\u2019s stunning promotion to the Premier League last season. The winner of the tournament goes forward to compete for a place in a UK national final which will be played at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>Rogerstone Primary the 2013 winners of the tournament will be returning to defend their title.\u00a0 Steve Lewis year six teacher from Rogerstone Primary commented &#8220;It is\u00a0definitely a proud feeling that we have, to hand back the Trophy as 2013\u00a0Tournament winners.\u00a0 However, we do feel a sense of anticipation and expectation this year. The boys are eager to experience the Cardiff City Academy training facility as\u00a0last year\u2019s team couldn&#8217;t stop talking about their\u00a0Trophy run.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Friday saw the first teams battle it out to reach the next stages with\u00a0Ysgol Gymraeg Melin Gruffydd,\u00a0Langstone Primary School,\u00a0Gwauncelyn Primary School,\u00a0YGG Sant Baruc,Evenlode Primary School,\u00a0Penygawsi Primary School,\u00a0St Bernadette&#8217;s Catholic School and\u00a0Trowbridge Primary School taking part.<\/p>\n<p>Each school played extremely well however \u00a0Ysgol Gymraeg Melin Gruffydd and\u00a0Evenlode Primary School went through to the next stage. the next group stage will be held on the 6th and 7th of February 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to both teams for getting through and a big well done for all the teams that took part.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday the 31st January saw the launch of the Premier League schools tournament in South Wales at the House of Sport in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":36556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardiff-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Premier League Schools Football Tournament 2014 - ND Education<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Friday the 31st January saw the launch of the Premier League schools tournament in South Wales at the House of Sport in Cardiff. 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