Day 77

Day 77

  Today we were told to be at the learning centre for 10:00, so that we could make our way to Ajax Cape Town's training facilities for a tour held by Rihad aka Rio. Ajax Cape town are the only Cape Town based team in the PSL (South Africa's highest level of football) however in the past there has been teams such as Vasco de Gama in the mix also. Vasco De Gama are literally a stone throws away from Ajax Cape Town and I can't stress the word 'literally' enough. Rihad even said that they were thinking of contacting guinness world book of records about seeing if they were the closest neighbouring teams in the world. Rihad showed us the whole facilities including the pitches, changing rooms, gym, offices and the club shop. I bought an Ajax Cape Town jersey which looks pretty smart. I'm going to get CAWDERY 44 on the back. The number 44 comes from the number of the place we are staying at.. Berghof! Thought it was quite a cool idea by me. Jeff bought an Ajax Cape town jumper which looks very decent! The tour lasted from 11-12:45 and it was time to move on to our next appointment.

We were called by Aaron this morning to arrange a session with his Africa Passions group. Which you can be read about at http://www.africanpassions.net/aboutus.php. Aaron actually works for a company called Fives Futbol here but he was actually born in London, before moving out to Cape Town two years ago. The session was pretty short notice but it was nice to visit somewhere different once again and coach another set of boys. Aaron treated us to lunch and even picked us up from the station. The session started at 2:30 and finished at 4:00. Both Jeff and I told Aaron we were gutted that we didn't get put in contact earlier because the session went really well! We had to make do with two balls and two cones which made the session even more of a challenge but that's what it's all about! We managed to come with a great session with a game which is similar to numbers and then we finished off with a 1v1 attacking vs defending drill. To end the session we did a little round robin tournament. Both Jeff and I are so grateful we were given the opportunity by Aaron and he's a really top guy.

The evening's events that we had planned was a spot night at Joe's. Braai time! Jeff and I bought some chicken wings, pork chops and some steak! It was the nicest meat i've ever had in my life, no joke. It tasted soooooo nice! A really nice evening in the end.

Safari tomorrow!!

All the best

Luke