South Africa: Cape Town to host international football tournament

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's city of Cape Town on Wednesday announced that two leading international football teams will challenge two local teams in a two day double header tournament in July.

The inaugural Cape Town Cup will see locals teams Ajax Cape Town and Supersport United welcome Portuguese team Sporting Clube de Portugal as well as Crystal Palace FC on 24 and 26 July.

“Our support for the tournament is part of the city’s strategy to position Cape Town as the events capital of Africa. Events play a pivotal role in generating visitor expenditure and growing our local economy. Football is a unifying sport and events like these bring citizens from all walks of life together,” said Councillor Garreth Bloor.

Ari Efstathiou, the CEO of Ajax, said “we hope to grow this tournament in the years to come and host other big name football clubs in Cape Town”.

Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew said his Barclays Premier League team will field a full first team squad.
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