Nov 14 - High Morale Within GFA Futsal Team as They Head Off to Poland
This morning the GFA Futsal National ‘A’ Team set off for Poland to participate in their second tournament since joining UEFA. The Friendly Four Nations Tournament will see them play Poland this Saturday, Belarus on Sunday and Turkey next Tuesday. Kick off times are set for 7pm, 4:30pm and 3:30pm.
Speaking to YGTV as the team gathered at the Gibraltar International Airport this morning, Head Coach Mario Prescott explained that the team was relatively new, with most of the players coming from 11 a side football teams. The two remaining players from the earlier futsal team that played in France earlier this year are Jansen Prescott and Joseph Chipol. Mario insisted that this is the first time many of the players are playing futsal. ‘They’re going to learn a lot there. These three teams are of a very high standard’.
The Opposition says it is concerned at the increase in tobacco smuggling activity in certain areas in Gibraltar which is now, according to them, “clearly getting out of control.”
The GSD says that it notes the “stark refusal by the Government to come clean” on whether changes to the Nature Protection legislation will allow Spanish Fishermen to fish with nets in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters without them actually having to apply for a licence in Gibraltar (e.g. by virtue of their existing membership of one of the Algeciras or La Linea Cofradias).
During the Chief Minister’s recent visit to Washington DC, he was the guest of honour at the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars' (TWC) headquarters where he met the first group of 11 students to be participating in the Gibraltar Innovation and Entrepreneurship International Training Program. Over lunch with the interns, the Chief Minister said: “You are the pioneers, and I hope you can look back and see that you broke ground on something really special.”
