Free Special: Liverpool Football College & The Dallas Cup

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🗓️ 13 February 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Liverpool Football College are trying to raise money to help let the local lads of Liverpool follow their dreams and get to the Dallas Cup. The Dallas cup is an annual international football tournament that offers youth teams the chance to experience playing in front of thousands of spectators. The tournament which was established in 1980 and begins every easter includes youth teams from under 13’s to under 19’s. Some of the most prestigious clubs in Europe have competed in the tournament from the likes of Liverpool to Man United to Real Madrid. Not just have some of the biggest clubs in Europe played in this cup, but some of the biggest names in football used to get involved as well. David Beckham, Michael Owen, Jermain Defoe and even local lad Wayne Rooney to name a few. Liverpool Football College are trying to raise 10,000 pound to help some of the boys be able to participate in the Dallas Cup this year, they will be doing some fundraising events shortly. They will be doing a number of events including a drag and boat race in March at the Albert Dock and they will be looking for sponsorships for players, a percentage of the proceeds raised will be going back into the local community to help others via the charity an hour for others. In a free TAW Special Gareth Roberts chats to David MacDiarmid and a host of Liverpool Football College students and graduates about the tournament and the work that Liverpool Football College do to help young men and women in the local community. You can support Liverpool Football College and their campaign to get to the tournament by visiting their Justgiving page on the this link - http://bit.ly/LFCDallasCup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's John Gibbons from the Amphibout with an insert courtesy of Spond and Spond
0:07.2	takes all the hassle out at organizing any group events and the app is 100% free and easy to use.
0:14.3	You can organize any team, so your football team,
0:16.4	five a size, rugby, crickets, whatever it is you play
0:19.7	from a quick friendly to your Sunday League team. It is there and we use it. I say
0:24.7	way I use it for the Manuel football team that I play in and find it really
0:29.6	really useful, very straightforward. And if you think about the dark old days
0:34.2	of having to ring around everyone saying,
0:35.6	can you play on Friday and making a note and things like that?
0:38.8	And obviously, it's moved on a little bit
0:40.6	to group chats and things, but it still can be quite hard I think to remember
0:45.2	who said they can do something who said they can't you know spreading any information out and things
0:49.8	like that this allows you to do that so every week I just go into respond, say if a can or can't play,
0:54.6	the captain's then got all that information, he knows how many players he's got, he knows what
0:58.8	formation you can pick based on that and it's really quick and easy. You can also create and share files, polls, schedules,
1:06.2	manage events, track attendance, make payments, send group and private messages and
1:11.3	it even sinks with your calendar as well.
1:13.8	So it is very easy to use and sometimes we'll do things outside of our usual weekly
1:20.6	organization, weekly games and organize things like walks and things like that and all that's the you've done through Spond.
1:26.0	And as I say, it's so quick and easy to say whether you can or kind of not attend and makes it for the organizers,
1:31.0	hire Chris Barber, really easy.
1:33.7	Spond because of its success has billions of monthly active users and if you're not one of them,
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