Sponsorship and Croesus Ladies Soccer

Sponsorships what a pain!!

I thought that sponsorship for a women's soccer team especially a developing side, would be easy to obtain. How wrong was I!! Sponsorships are a club you either belong to it or not. Take Nike for example, they love to sponsor celebrities. Their list consist of people like Tiger Woods, Oscar Pistorius and Lance Armstrong. Perhaps if our girls were into crime or drugs maybe Nike would consider sponsoring our team.

The criteria for sponsorship is that you have to either have a name like Kaiser Chief or Orlando Pirates. Then Vodacom will write out a cheque for R50 million, to develop the existing useless mens teams. Vodacom stop their sponsorship for the women's league, and I believe that women using that network should boycott it for 1 day. Unfortunately, women do not support women!

President Zuma emphasises his point that we must look after women and children. It's great to dedicate one day towards women, but what about the rest of the year? Do women only deserve 1 day of the year, are we that insignificant in the world? I suppose women never really make a fuss about what they achieve,  like men do, and how brilliant they are!

Sour grapes I call it on my side! Anyway I shouldn't be ungrateful. UMBRO decided to sponsor our kit for the season for the SASOL league, the one and only women's league in the country, how sad!!
Every year we come across the same teams, same look and same faces. The only difference is that we are all looking slightly older, perhaps a bit heavier on the hips. But life goes on Ce la Vivie!!

What can I say about SASOL, only their dedication towards women has been phenomenal. Please fill up at SASOL garages they deserve to get the business.

It's time to change situations, change the mind set. Men cannot seem to like the idea that women play a better game of soccer than they do.. OK our games are not as fast, but at least our technique is better and the game is not stopped every second of the time for fouling. I see so many ethnic kids and their delight to play the game and yet the facilities are non existent. Small observation, you cannot make money out of them, so throw them aside, see problem solved!!



Katrina Kat Maguire, (centre) Amanda and right Mantombi

What can I say, just keep playing and have faith. My dream for Croesus ladies to be invited to play overseas. Just the thought of this is enough to charge my batteries again and fight for these wonderful girls/ladies which deserve a very lucky break!

Croesus Ladies are just SIMPLY THE BEST!!