The Football Association have officially launched – England Football Day.

fa_fd_logo_date.jpgAnybody with a passion for Football
in the Sheffield & Hallamshire FA region will be pleased to hear
that The
Football Association have officially launched England Football Day.

 

England Football Day is timed
perfectly to coincide with the World Cup Finals in South Africa. The
nations will be
gripped with excited for the competition and the start of the England
teams World Cup campaign.

 

England Football Day will
take place on Saturday 12th June 2010 to coincide with England’s first
group game against the USA.  To celebrate this national occasion The
Football Association and Sheffield & Hallamshire FA are encouraging
affiliated clubs, schools, groups and organisations from across the
region to
get involved and hold a festival or event to celebrate England Football
Day and
attract more people into clubs.

 

Festival
organisers can hold an event on any day
that they choose or if you already have an event planned why not make
England
Football Day part of these arrangements! 

 

James
Hope-Gill, Chief
Executive for Sheffield & Hallamshire FA said “England Football Day
is a
great opportunity to bring the game of football and the community
together to
celebrate the beautiful game.  Hosting
festivals and events across the county will hopefully encourage more
people to
play and get involved with football.

 

If you would like to hold a
festival you can download a toolkit and register your Festival to appear
nationally on the following website:

www.TheFA.com/EnglandFootballDay
  

There are already a number of
events being held within the Sheffield &
Hallamshire FA that are posted on the above site.

All festivals registered
onto the England Football Day website will be automatically entered into
a
prize draw to win £500 of equipment for your club/organisation.

There will be a total of 8 winners, 1 from each region.

Clubs/organisers have to uploaded their event onto the website to be
entered
into the draw

Do we have the people with the passion and ability to make this happen locally? kevin@futsal.org.uk It could be futsal or football based.

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