One Life Charity» One Life Charity http://onelifecharity.org Celebrating fifth successful year of helping children Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:54:40 +0000 en hourly 1 One Life Charity 6-a-side football tournament http://onelifecharity.org/archives/113 http://onelifecharity.org/archives/113#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 13:00:03 +0000 onelife http://onelifecharity.org/?p=113 One Life Charity is organising 6-a-side football tournament on 20 June 2009. The venue for the tournament will be at National Sports Academy (NSA) in Sofia.


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We are hoping to attract 16 teams and run the competition along the lines of the Champions League with four divisions of four teams.

The teams should consist of 6 players (5 on field plus goal keeper) plus max. 2 substitutes. The teams will play a round-robin and the top two from each group to the quarter-final stage. (3 points will be awarded for a win and 1 point or a draw). Rules of the tournament in English and Bulgarian language.

The participation fee for each team is 500 BGN. The teams are encouraged to wear their own (or companies’) t-shirts.

  • Registration start: 10:00 am.
  • Kick-off time: 11:00 am.
  • Expected finish about 6:00 pm.

Prizes will be awarded to the winners and runners-up.

All proceeds help to alleviate children’s disease and disability in Bulgaria.

For further details, please contact us.

Please note that we need players names by 16:00 on Wednesday, 17 June 2009.

]]> http://onelifecharity.org/archives/113/feed 0 Rugby Tournament http://onelifecharity.org/archives/80 http://onelifecharity.org/archives/80#comments Tue, 01 May 2007 09:52:42 +0000 onelife http://onelifecharity.org/?p=80 The rugby we held was the brainchild of James Flint. The charity was lucky that James had some good connections in the UK rugby world. Through his contacts James was able to bring together a team of ex UK professional rugby players (The Purple Nasties) which  was captained by Will Greenwood MBE, a member of the England World Cup winning team.

Other teams were from Russian (The Moscow Dragons) and from Bulgaria (Valiaciate from Pernik, The National Sports Academy, Murphy’s Misfits) Will Greenwood gave coaching sessions to the Bulgarian rugby team, from the town of Pernik, which was featured on SKY Sports and Rugby World.

The day competition featured a round-robin event for the two divisions and the top teams played in the final of the day. The final was contested by The Purple Nasties and Valiacite (“Steam-Rollers”), with the Purple Nasties running out winners in a close fought game.

The evening was spent in the grandeur of the Military Club where we hosted a dinner and auction. The memorabilia on sale included items signed by Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Maradonna, George Best, Robbie Williams and Will Greenwood himself.

Naturally, we were extremely grateful to Will Greenwood for giving up his time and to Ben Richardson for organizing the UK side of things with James. It was a most tremendous day. To follow things through Will Greenwood wrote a wonderful article for The Daily Telegraph centred around his activities in Bulgaria.

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