Oct 02 - GFA Ready for a Busy Season
As the new football season approaches, the Gibraltar Football Association have announced a selection of friendly matches and competitive fixtures for Gibraltar’s teams. The first of which will take place the Victoria Stadium on 5th March 2014, against the Estonian national team. A further friendly with the team will he held in Tallinn, Estonia on 26th May. A GFA statement today claims that ‘negotiations are also on-going regarding the possibility of two international friendly fixtures in Gibraltar in November 2013 and March 2014 against two fellow UEFA national associations. Further information on this will be issued soon’.
The Gibraltar Table Tennis Association has announced the team’s new allocations for the season. Monday’s session will be held at the Victoria Stadium from 8:30 to 11:30 pm, Tuesday’s sessions will be held at the Victoria Stadium from 6pm to 8pm and Thursday’s sessions will be held at Westside School from 6pm to 8pm.
This November will see Gibraltar’s first ever annual golf tournament, held here, on the Rock. 
The Minister for Sport and Leisure, Steven Linares, has today announced that, as part of the policy to develop tourism through sports and leisure events, arrangements have been completed for Gibraltar’s first Backgammon Festival.
The Gibraltar Sports & Leisure Authority is working in partnership with the Physical Activities Association for Mature Older Adults (PAAMOA) to provide a programme of activities aimed at ensuring that we ‘Look After Ourselves’ and continue to live a happy, healthy and active lifestyle into the future.
