The People’s Cup Rooftop has a brilliant Health and Wellbeing team who organise a huge range of events and activities, whatever age or level of fitness you have. Earlier this year we took part in the People’s Cup, a football tournament with a difference, as the participants are all over 50 and the match takes place with everyone walking.
The preparation started long before the day itself, with locker room talk, who was able to attend, what we would wear and how well we would do. The team spirit of this group of men is amazing. We all met up a few days before to try on our kits, set up a chat group so we could organize lifts, talk tactics and sort meet times out. The tournament took place in late February and was held at Goals at Birmingham Star City. We set off from Bromsgrove and Evesham then met to talk final tactics, which boiled down to just one…to score goals and leave the other team standing. 13:45 saw the 4 teams briefed on rules and respect, then after a final chat we kicked off. Each match is 20 minutes long; we only had one sub, but this worked out well as all the guys got a fair amount of time on the pitch. The teams we came up against were more professional than the Rooftop Rascals as they play 3 times a week, enter tournaments and play games weekly. A few of the players had played for Villa Development and football had been a big part of their lives.
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