A Bermondsey football club for teenage boys has been presented with a trophy from local MP Neil Coyle.
Rise United, who train at the City of London Academy (COLA) Southwark pitches on Lynton Road, won won the under-fourteen division of the London County Saturday youth football league with fifteen wins out of fifteen. The under-fifteen team came second in its division.
Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP Coyle and local councillor for the south Bermondsey ward Sunny Lambe handed the trophy to the winning side at a ceremony at COLA on Wednesday evening (July 20), as well as giving speeches.
Last season was Rise United’s first. Daniel Alfred, who helps run the club along with head coach Simone Bonfiglio and secretary Vincent Ikpefa, said the founders’ main aim in setting up Rise United was to “instil discipline in children within south-east London.”
‘We aim to instil discipline’: Bermondsey boys’ football club wins the league in its first season
