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JUBA - 7 Jul 2017

PoC1 football team defeats UN peacekeepers 2-0 in Juba

UNMISS football team lost its final match against PoC 1 team at PoC3 Football Stadium last week by 2-0, in a week-long tournament between internally displaced persons and UN peacekeepers.

The PoC 1 team won the final game after scoring two goals in the second half of the game against the UNMISS peacekeepers of Rwandan battalion team.

The head of the UN Mission in South Sudan, David Shearer, presented the PoC1 team with a trophy for winning the game.

The tournament included female players from both the displaced people and the UN peacekeepers.