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Dewa United U-17 soccer team wins Tranmere Rovers local competition
A number of Tranmere Rovers Academy coaches came to the tournament to scout the two best players throughout the games to take them for a two-week training session at the club’s academy in the UK.
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Goals: Players of Dewa United Under-17 (U-17) soccer team celebrate at the Uni Jebreeetmedia Arena in Bandung, West Java, on May 10, 2024, after winning the Tranmere Rovers Goes to Bandung 2024 U-17 soccer tournament. (Courtesy of JM Media/-)
The academy team of South Tangerang soccer club Dewa United came out as the winner of the Tranmere Rovers Goes to Bandung 2024 tournament on Friday, beating fellow clubs’ academies in the process.
The Under-17 (U-17) tournament was held by Tranmere Rovers, an English soccer club currently sitting in League Two, a fourth-tier United Kingdom soccer league three levels below the internationally heralded Premier League. This year marks the tournament’s second edition in Indonesia after the first held in Jakarta last year.
Like last year, a number of coaches of Tranmere Rovers Academy, including Mathew Hunter and Daniel O'Donnell, came to the tournament to scout the two best Indonesian players throughout the games to take them for a two-week training session at the club’s academy in Birkenhead in the northwest of England.
Eight soccer clubs from various cities participated in this year’s tournament, hailing from Bandung to Purwakarta. All the games were played on Friday at the Uni Jebreeetmedia Arena in Ciwastra, Bandung, West Java.
Dewa United Academy beat the academy team of its League 1 rival Persib Bandung 2-0 in the semifinal and won the tournament by beating Bee Bold 1-0 in the final.
“Of course I’m happy. Usually, the tournaments we join last for days or even months. But now it was only a day and we could come out as winners,” Dewa United Academy’s captain Reyvan Rezqi Ilahi said after the final, kompas.com reported.
