Melbourne∙ The Kairali Brisbane All Australia Sevens Football Tournament named following Hegel Joseph, who galloped like a war horse in the Australian fields and made legends in the Australian football fields at a young age, will be held on Saturday, March 18, from 7:00 am at the Nathan Campus of Griffith University in Coopers Plains. Conducted till 7:30 p.m
16 inter-state teams compete in four groups, embracing all the beauty of football. The Kairali Brisbane Executive Committee welcomes all football lovers in Australia to this football wonderland run by Kairali, one of the largest Malayali organizations on Australian soil.
Loan House Lending Solutions, a well-known mortgage and finance broking company in Australia, is the title sponsor of this tournament.
With twenty-five matches across four pools, a handful of prizes await the winners of this tournament. 2501 Australian dollars and an ever-rolling trophy await the first place winners. The organizers have prepared a cash prize of $1,001 and a runner-up trophy for the second place, a cash prize of $501 and a shield for the third place, and a cash prize of $251 for the fourth place.
Title sponsors Loan House Lending Solutions along with property groups Century Twenty One, 8pm Properties, Smart Flooring, Moosapilly Caterings, Lemon Chillis, Aussie Net Real Estate, Orange Valley Resorts, Bris Accounts, Dosa Hut Restaurant, Elegance Shutters and Blinds, Inkkals Lawyers, Indian Spice Shop, Fly World Tours and Travels and Trinity Accounts are the alternate sponsors of the tournament.
Kairli Brisbane has also prepared several individual prizes like the Golden Ball for the best player of the tournament, Golden Boy for the best youth player, Golden Boot for the top goalscorer and Golden Glove for the best goalkeeper.
1. Sporting FNQ, Cairns
2. Tyrant Tuskers FC, Toowoomba
3. Gold Coast Storms, Gold Coast
4. Sunshine Coast FC
5. Meesha FC, Brisbane
6. Brisbane Blasters
7. Melbourne Sun Shine FC
8. Canterbury FC, Sydney
9. Brisbane Titans
10. Ipswich United FC
11. Coastal FC, Sunshine Coast
12. Socar FC, Brisbane
13. Southside Soccer Studs, Brisbane
On the 18th of March, Brisbane will witness a highly competitive football competition where sixteen teams from 13 interstate clubs from Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Queensland will compete in four pools.
Four Under-15 exhibition matches to encourage promising future kids to step onto the football field. Best of all, the players and spectators who are hungry will be able to enjoy Idiyappam – egg curry, Thatt dosa – chammati, Porotta – beef, biryani, fried rice & chicken curry and snack items like Pazam Pori, Paripupavada and Ullivada from Natan Thattukada at the ground. Also, the ice cream stall offers a variety of ice creams and the drinks booth offers shakes, sorbets, fresh lime and various fruit juices.
Chinese lion dance and various Indian dances will be performed between the matches to make the tournament festive.