England and Cyprus win the Arsenal Soccer Schools 3 v3 World Cup

On Saturday 15th May 2010 Arsenal Soccer Schools held its annual soccer school operator tournament on the pitch at Emirates Stadium. The tournament had 160 children from seven countries and ten regions around the UK competing to be the 3 v 3 World Cup champions.

The 40 teams who entered the tournament were split into two age groups, eight and nine year olds and ten and 11 year olds any number under and including ten is written no matter what the sentence structure for info. Each of the teams competed in a group stage with four team in each age progressing to the semi finals and two into the big finals.

The teams came from as far as Bahrain, with the team from Cyprus making their long journey more than worthwhile by winning what was a very competitive final 2- 0 against the team from Holland in the years ten and 11 category, with goals from Stefanos Charalampous and Michalis Pekris.

Arsenal Soccer Schools Kent, Surrey, Sussex led by manager Barry Jeffreys won the eight and nineyear old category for the second year running, narrowly defeating the team from Spain by virtue of scoring the first goal in a hard fought 4– 4 draw, the goal scorers were Paris Patten and Marcus Simon.

The tournament was filled with excitement and entertainment with some fantastic passing moves, lots of goals and plenty of noise made by an exuberant crowd of supporting family and friends in the Emirates Stadium seats.

Arsenal Soccer Schools would like to congratulate the winners and thank everyone who played their part in making this such a successful event.

Eight and nine year age group
Final	Group Stage
Kent/Surrey/Sussex v Spain Winner: Kent/Surrey/Sussex	Aldenham Bedfordshire Southbury Holland Wales Kent/ Surrey/ Sussex Hertfordshire Spain Wiltshire Lincolnshire Gloucestershire Northamptonshire Devon/Dorset/Somerset London advanced Haverstock Greig City St Aloysius
Semi finals
Kent/Surrey/Sussex v Northamptonshire Spain v London advanced

Ten and 11 year age group
Final	Group Stage
Cyprus v Holland Winner: Cyprus	Aldenham Bedfordshire Southbury Holland Wales Kent/ Surrey/ Sussex Bahrain Hertfordshire Spain Wiltshire Lincolnshire Greece 1 Greece 2 Cyprus Gloucestershire Northamptonshire Devon/Dorset/Somerset London adavnced Greig City
Semi finals
Cyprus v Bahrain London advanced v Holland