Newcastle U-15s in action now in the Lion City Cup!

This is my first time writing an article, so for those who don’t know much about me I'll give you some background.

I am a regular visitor here, a Singaporean NUFC supporter since the age of seven. The first Newcastle match I ever saw was the 8-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday which was Sir Bobby Robson's first game in charge of Newcastle. I remember jumping up and down on my sofa like a madman. Argh, memories…

Okay, enough of the short introduction of myself. Basically the main purpose of the article is to let all of you know about my country holding this Cup Competition from 18th June 2011 - 26th June 2011. Newcastle United U15s, Everton U15s, Flamengo U15s, Juventus U15s, and my own country, Singapore U15s - the Singapore U16s.

The Lion City Cup is one of the oldest and most prestigious youth football competitions in the world with the first tournament organized 34 years ago. The tournament has unearthed Singapore football stars such as Fandi Ahmad, V. Sundramoorthy, Indra Sahdan and more recently Hariss Harun who is the captain of the current U-23 team. Since the inaugural tournament in 1977, involving U-16 teams, the Lion City Cup has become one of the premier youth tournaments in the region and has been credited for being the inspiration behind FIFA’s introduction of the World Youth Under-17 and Under-19 Championships.

The six teams will be pooled into two groups of three teams and will play in a single round robin format, with the top two teams from each group progressing to the knock-out stages where they will play for a place in the final which will be played on 26th June 2011 at the home of Singapore football, the Jalan Besar Stadium.

Newcastle are playing their first group match against my country Singapore U-15 right now although I am not sure there will be any available stream. Eurosport have delayed coverage scheduled for Monday at 9am (UK time) with the game against Juventus being broadcast live at 1:45pm (again UK time) on the same channel.

Feel free to support the young Magpies. Who knows, one of them might be the next Alan Shearer?

As for me, with Singapore and Newcastle, I'm in a dilemma as to who to support :mrgreen:


Note from Toonsy - A big thank-you to Angel of Death for writing this up for us. Hopefully the lads can learn from their experience.