Leisure Leagues has collaborated with Happy Homes School and is organizing Leisure Leagues â€" Happy Home six-a-side football league at the schoolâ€(tm)s Society Campus.
A total of eight teams from the school are featuring in the tournament and each team with play two games with every other team in the league.
Top Leisure Leagues official Shahroze Rizvi said that they were now reaching out to schools and providing their students to play at their own turfs.
“It is difficult for youngsters especially from schools and other academic institutions to first form a team and then come to play at a ground that may be difficult for them to reach. So we have now taken the game of small-sided football to their own backyard,†Shahroze said.
So far Leisure Leagues has signed six MoUs with different educational institutions â€" namely IBA, Sir Syed University, Kiran Foundation, Haque Academy, Delsol and Happy Home. The mini-sided football organizers are optimistic that several more schools would come on board soon as well.
Meanwhile at Happy Home School, the first round matches of the league have started. Patriots thrashed Saints by 7-1 score with Anas scoring a hat-trick for the winners.
The match between Jaguars and Tigers ended in a 1-1 draw; Falcons defeated Elite 2-1 with Hammad bracing for the winners; Panthers got a walkover against Cobras after the latter didnâ€(tm)t turned up for the match.
Leisure Leagues will also be starting other eight-team leagues at three other branches of Happy Homes schools.
About Leisure Leagues:
Leisure Leagues is a company of World Group, which is owned by The Trunkwala Family. It is the largest global organizer of 5, 6 and 7-a-side football events. Leisure Leagues has considerably large footprints, having organized leagues in Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Leisure has also been operational in United States. Leisure Leagues set foot in Pakistan in 2016. Trunkwala Family brought former football super star Brazilian Ronaldinho and Friends â€" including former Manchester United stalwart Ryan Giggs, former England goalkeeper David James, Dutch star George Boateng, former French players Robert Pires and Nicolas Anelka and Portuguese player Luis Boa Morte in 2017. Two high-voltage matches were played in Lahore and Karachi when foreign players of other sports including cricket were reluctant to visit Pakistan due to security apprehensions. Leisure Leagues is now organizing different small-sided football events throughout Pakistan. Leisure Leagues is also organizing small-sided football events in schools and colleges as well. Leisure Leagues has also played an important role in establishing International Socca Federation (ISF) and also played an important part in organizing first ever Socca World Cup in Portugal and second edition in Greece. Leisure Leagues has also been the force behind establishing Pakistan Socca teams and made their participation in ISF Socca World Cups possible in both editions of the tournament so far. Leisure Leagues now has a significant presence in Pakistan, with its leagues being played in 78 cities across the country.