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Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>It will be a historic moment in the Southern Region Football Association (SOFA) when it\u2019s first ever women\u2019s division one league starts February 11 in Jwaneng.<\/b><\/p>\n

The region has seven women\u2019s teams.<\/p>\n

Three of the teams, Zodiac Collabo Girls, Bonto FC and Extension Gunners Ladies are from Lobatse.<\/p>\n

Gangwaketse United and Kanye Swallows represent Kanye while the other teams are Jwaneng Galaxy and Taipei Babes.<\/p>\n

SOFA executive committee chairperson, Matthews Mmono, said he was delighted that the region had finally managed to have a women\u2019s football league.<\/p>\n

Speaking recently during a meeting aimed at sensitising stakeholders about the league in Lobatse, Mmono said each weekend fixtures would be played in a \u2018football bonanza\u2019 arrangement, where games would be held in one town or village and move to the next place the following weekend. He said the opening weekend fixtures would be played in Jwaneng.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn that way, we will be able to enjoy and love our regional football. All stakeholders around will be invited to come and showcase what they have. We want to build lifelong partnerships,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mmono said the objective of his committee was to accelerate growth of women and youth football in the region. He said their long term objective was to have all teams affiliated to the SOFA region establishing women and youth development teams. \u201cWe want players to be developed from a young age and given all football skills,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mmono said Meat Girls was the last women\u2019s football team from the SOFA region to participate in an official league. He said that was eight years ago when it played under the ambit of the women\u2019s national league. The women\u2019s national league was later replaced by women\u2019s regional league.<\/p>\n

SOFA executive committee additional member, Mpheme Mmolai, said the region would promote women\u2019s league by working closely with the community and bringing stakeholders to the matches.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur strategic approach is to have many engagements with stakeholders to come to our games and provide their services to the community. Coming together with them will help us achieve our objective of empowering the girl child not only in sports, but in other aspects of life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She said Debswana had committed to sponsor the league. She said details of the sponsorship would be revealed at the launch of the league in Jwaneng yesterday.<\/p>\n

The opening weekend fixtures on Saturday will see a heavy weight clash between Jwaneng Galaxy and Zodiac Collabo Girls played at Galaxy Stadium at 9am. Bonto FC will square off with Gunners ladies at 4pm at Galaxy Stadium, while Taipei Babes will lock horns with Kanye Swallows at Jwaneng Rugby Stadium at 4pm.<\/p>\n

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