Press Release Archive

07.08.10

TCI International Women’s
Football Festival June 16 ­ 20

The Turks and Caicos Islands Annual International Women’s Festival of Football will be held between June 16 and 28, and will feature a Guyana Under 20 and the United States’ Bethesda College.

This year’s tournament expected to generate as much excitement or even more as it did years past, as the best talent in local female football will go on parade, matching skills with their international counterparts. The local teams will include the Turks and Caicos Islands Under 20 Team and a select team from the Women’s Football League.

On the first day of competition ­ Tuesday 16th June – the festival will kick­off with the playing of one game featuring the Turks and Caicos Island Under 20 team, which will match skills with the Women’s Football League select team, beginning at 6:30pm.

On Thursday, June 18, fans will be treated to a double header, when the Turks and Caicos Islands Under 20 team face­off against Bethesda Sporting Club starting at 6pm. The feature game for that day will be the 7:40 encounter between the Women’s Football League Select Team opposing the Guyana Under 20 Team.

The festival continues on Friday, June 19, with another double header. In the curtain­raiser, the Turks and Caicos Islands Under 20 Team will go up against the Guyana Under 20 team at 6pm, then at 7:40, the Women’s Football League Select Team will try to match skills with the Bethesda Sporting Club in the feature.

The competition culminates on Saturday, June 20, with Guyana Under 20 Girls going up against Bethesda Sporting Club beginning at 4pm. Following the game, medals and trophies will be presented to the winning and participating teams.

01.06.10

Digicel to promote FIFA world Cup

Telecommunications company Digicel has announced that it will partner with football’s world governing body – FIFA – to promote the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, this according to Head of Digicel Marketing locally, Ava­Dayne Kerr.

Speaking at the launch of the Digicel’s Blackberry Bold 9700, also know as the Storm 2, Kerr noted also that Digicel has become a big partner in the staging of the FIFA World Cup this summer, as it will the premium sponsor in the Caribbean. And against that background, a number of promotions will be held up to tournament time, including the grand prize of an all expense paid trip to watch the tournament in South Africa.

The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup, the premier international football tournament. It is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa.

The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the culmination of a qualification process that began in August 2007 and involved 204 of the 208 FIFA national teams. As such, it matches the 2008 Summer Olympics as the sports event with the most competing nations. This will be the first time that the tournament has been hosted by an African nation, after South Africa beat Morocco and Egypt in an all­African bidding process. Italy are the defending champions.

"All Digicel markets are participating in the FIFA promotions. We launched the first FIFA promotion on January 27, and that runs through February 10, and that is the Roar to Score that basically is to give someone the opportunity to win a flat screen TV at the end of the promotion.

"All you have to do to qualify is talk on your Blackberry handset for over five minutes. Each week a winner will be chosen, and that winner will get $10 free credit and a FIFA football. At the end of that promotion, the winner will get a 4­inch flat screen TV," Kerr explained.

Kerr said at the end of the promotion June ­ when the World Cup will begin – a winner locally will get the chance to win the all expense paid trip to South Africa to watch one of the games, which could be one of the semifinals or the final. "We are excited about that; we expect to build the momentum. It has just begun and you will see promotions every month running straight to June, when we will send one lucky customer to South Africa," Kerr said.

Digicel, according to Kerr, will be working with the Turks and Caicos Islands Football Association, not only to advance the promotion, but also to further promote and develop football (soccer) among both males and females within the islands.

"We want to build the momentum and get people excited about the sport of football, and about going to South Africa," Kerr said.