August 2009
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New Grassroot Soccer T-shirts Available From OneTribe.com
Looking for a stylish way to support Grassroot Soccer? GRS has recently partnered with One Tribe Creative, a newly launched apparel company where 50% of of every T-shirt purchase is a direct donation to Grassroot Soccer. These 100% organic cotton shirts are eco-friendly and incredibly comfortable, check out the new Men’s and Women’s t-shirts at [...]
Ticket Fund Bringing Ticket Dreams Closer To Reality For GRS Participants
Source: Fifa.com
Developed from plans announced by FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter at the Preliminary Draw in Durban in November 2007, the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ Ticket Fund was formally unveiled by FIFA and the 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee South Africa today (14 August 2009), exactly 300 days before the opening game.
In total, 120,000 [...]
Grassroot Soccer Team in Training for NYC Marathon And Needs Your Support
The Grassroot Soccer Marathon Team is training hard for the NYC Marathon on November 1st, 2009, check out the photo of their recent training run in Central Park. The GRS team recently featured in a news release by the ING New York City Marathon, which can be read below.
We have a total of 40 runners [...]
Women’s Day Brings Girls Together
Source: FIFA.com
As South Africa prepares to celebrate National Woman’s Day on 9 August, the voices of girl power could already be heard this afternoon at the Ncomu Road Urban Park in Khayelitsha as a girls-only football tournament took place in front of the construction site of the first of 20 Football for Hope community centres [...]