Corporate Football Challenge - World Cup 2010
On Monday 5 July 2010 at Killinghall Moor Community Football Pitches, Harrogate Borough Council’s Sports Development Team held the first ever Corporate World Cup for local organisations in the Harrogate District to have a bit of fun, take part in some physical activity, and celebrate the World Cup here in Harrogate!
In total we had 12 teams enter, of which 5 were HBC, and the others were made up of Asda, Waitrose, Nuffield Health, Harrogate Police and Harrogate Grammar School, some of which entered more than one team. Each team were allocated countries from the World Cup, so we saw matches taking place such as England vs USA, Brazil vs Portugal and Spain vs Italy!
The standard of football was impressive, and on the whole sportsmanship was shown throughout, with a bit of friendly banter! The Grand Final saw Harrogate Police taking the title with an impressive 5-1 win over the Nuffield Health, a strong team themselves. Harrogate Borough Council took 3rd and 4th place, with the Hydro FC and Crescent Garden Offices respectively.
The event co-ordinator, Lindsay Spicer said of the event “the evening was a great success, everybody enjoyed it and it was great fun to organise. I would love to make this kind of thing an annual event. Thanks go to the Killinghall Nomads, the Harrogate Hornets, Stray FM and the Soccer Shop in Harrogate. Thanks also to all those teams who entered and made it a great event.”
Pictured below are the winning team from Harrogate Police
