5-A-SIDE 2010 WORLD SOCCER TOURNAMENT, 26 September 2009

Dear all,

As you all know our country will hold the World Cup next year. What an exciting time for us all. Here is a great invite from the embassy to take part in a 5 a-side tournament. If we have enough teams we can think of trying to organise some special transport to take everyone.

Let us have your ideas and we hope you will be interested. It would be great to have a South African team and/or a Luxembourg team.

Thanks

SA TEAM

Attached is a proposal for your kind consideration.

We look forward to an enjoyable day of football. It will be nice to have a team or two out of Luxembourg too.

Regards
Thivhilaeli Makatu
Counsellor (Political)
South African Embassy
to Belgium and Luxembourg
and the Mission to the European Union

Click Here to Download the Proposal (MS Word Document)

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