{"id":54298,"date":"2022-03-08T06:02:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T04:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/womens-sport-need-uplifting-20220307\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T19:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:13:19","slug":"womens-sport-need-uplifting-20220307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/womens-sport-need-uplifting-20220307\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s sport need uplifting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The women\u2019s football team in Lavender Hill has made a comeback after a hiatus in 2010, with the recruitment of women football players currently underway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark Nicholson, a director from the Lavender Hill Sports and Recreation Foundation, said a women\u2019s football team has started up once again this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou know women\u2019s sport is always on the low so I am trying to uplift women\u2019s sport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPreviously we had a women\u2019s football team between 2008 and 2010 and then we had to stop but we started a football team again now in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicholson said the Lavender Hill Football club has nine different divisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have junior footballers from under 8 to seniors. So we have nine different divisions. And I decided because of my daughter playing soccer and her sister playing for Spurs Ladies, I decided to start a women\u2019s soccer team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs soon as I put the word out suddenly we found ourselves with 17 women wanting to play soccer. There will be more joining. Women\u2019s sports need to be uplifted as well in our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that more women\u2019s footballers are needed if they are willing to commit to the sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are definitely inviting more, the way we do it, we want committed women\u2019s footballers, we know the times are tough as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf they are in a stage of being unemployed and they think that they won\u2019t be able to support themselves, they are most welcome to come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe try to support them as far and wide as we can, like giving them a meal before training and after training if they want to take a meal home. Because we also have a feeding kitchen here on this very field.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every day the feeding kitchen assists with meals for 300 children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo the ages of the women\u2019s football team is between the ages of 10-years-old up to 52, which is the age of my wife, and she is also part of the football team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicholson says sport is a healer to many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor me football is a healer, sport is a healer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou know you will find a child being depressed coming to the sports field, and as soon as they pick up the soccer ball they just forget the stresses they have and that they are going through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut they have to go back to their homes you know, so what we do is, we do motivational speeches, we do life skills programmes with them. For us sports is definitely a healer and sports can take them to the next level, especially where there schoolwork is concerned. They come from school and go straight to the soccer ball and start kicking the ball, enjoying their football and that is also part of therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The women\u2019 football practices takes place on the field in Blode Street or at the nearby Primary School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are using Blode Street as our training facility so that we can actually draw more young females to come and join our Football Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor the past few years that we\u2019ve been doing our sports, we have been doing it in Lavender Hill, we are currently registered with the South Peninsula Local Football Association, we are playing in a structured league. The women will play in the regional women\u2019s league which is a semi-professional league for them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_d69d53b7\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/3276\/35c66491332b42fdb353357c828b808f.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/bd5ae888b69d4c169947c404b24d8319.jpg\" title=\"The Lavender Hill women\u2019s football team practice takes place on the field in Blode Street.\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">The Lavender Hill women\u2019s football team practice takes place on the field in Blode Street.<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/3276\/fa205d26cecf4f3f82c2b51859cbab88.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/57edbddb85d949de93e7e0b1a9855086.jpg\" title=\"The women\u2019s football team in Lavender Hill consists of 17 players ranging from the age of 10 to 52.PHOTOS: supplied\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">The women\u2019s football team in Lavender Hill consists of 17 players ranging from the age of 10 to 52.PHOTOS: supplied<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>With the growing team however there are more kits needed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne of the main things we need is actually a microbus or a minibus taxi for transportation purposes, we need soccer balls, we need soccer kits as well. 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