Friday 04 / April / 2025
Muscat: Arsenal Soccer School Oman clinched the under-14 title at the first leg of the Arsenal Soccer Schools GCC League in Dubai.
According to a press statement issued by the school, Arsenal Soccer Schools Oman travelled to Dubai on Friday with the under-12 and under-14 squads to take part in the first leg of the Arsenal Soccer Schools GCC League.
Matches were played over two days at the Emirates Sevens Ground, the home of Arsenal Soccer School Dubai
Along with Arsenal Soccer School Dubai the other participating teams were Arsenal Soccer School Bahrain and Arsenal Soccer School Kuwait.
Each team played a total of eight matches with each team playing one another twice.
The Oman U-12 team had a very hard first day narrowly losing all four of their games but it certainly wasn’t due to lack of effort.
The boys feeling slightly down were soon given a lift by coach Davis Rizzolo who praised their work rate and quickly picked them up ready for day two.
The U-14 team started slowly but soon found their feet and ended day one with two wins a draw and one loss.
That loss was to be their only one of the weekend as they turned on the style on day two picking up another three wins and a draw which was enough to see them lift the trophy and crowned winners of the first leg of the League.
Coach Jermaine Wynter was delighted with his boys as they lost two players due to injury and had to use some under-12 players for much of the matches.
He said the boys showed great spirit and determination which enabled them to come out on top.
The under-12 certainly improved on day two but could do little to stop the strong team from Kuwait who dominated from the start of the weekend, finished unbeaten and deservedly lifted the trophy.
Coach Davis praised his young squads attitude and said they will certainly learn from the experience.
The next leg of the ASS GCC League will be for under-8 and will take place in Oman at the end of November.
