Tanzania has won three of the four categories in the just-ended East Africa Cup tournament.
The competition running under the theme ‘Learning through Sports’, attracted 80 soccer and volleyball teams from the East African Community as well as South Sudan, which participated for the first time this year.
It involved the Under-16 and Under-13 youth teams in both girls and boys categories. Dar es Salaam-based teams displayed the best performances with the Msimamo Youth Centre emerging champions in the Under-16 girls’ championship after beating Yes Tanzania of Arusha 3-0 in the final.
The Buguruni Youth Centre also topped the Under-13 girls category having thrashed CHRISC combined 1-0 while the Under-13 boys category was again won by Msimamo Youth Centre by beating Dar es Salaam’s Mikadini Youth Centre 3-0.
Kenya clinched the Under-16 boys’ games through the Nairobi-based KPL Select who thrashed CHRISC of Zanzibar 4-3.
Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan left empty handed. The events, according to coordinator Aaron Lomunyaki, have been taking place in Moshi, Kilimanjaro region for over a decade now because the municipality features a number of conducive playgrounds, including Magereza, Mawenzi and Memorial Stadium, plus the fact that the area also happens to be central and features low population.
The games were organized by Krik Norway, CHRISC East Africa and MYSA Kenya and had brought over 1,500 participants from the region.
Taking place in Kilimanjaro for the tenth year in a row, the 2014 tournament brought together nearly 80 football teams in both boys and girls categories, from Kenya, Uganda, and South Sudan and as well as from all Tanzania Mainland regions and Zanzibar.
There were two types of volleyball games – ordinary and sitting events — played at the week-long tournament.
CHRISC Nairobi topped the ordinary volleyball after beating CHRISC Arusha in the Under-16 category. CHRISC Moshi beat CHRISC Nairobi in the Under-16 version of Paralympic ‘sitting volleyball’.
Source Tanzania Daily News