This week we feature Coastal Spirit Rovers. Rovers are our Men’s Sunday League team and have been around for over 30 years. Originally New Brighton Rovers the team was one of the first Sunday teams to join a Saturday football club.
Player/Manager Ben McNabb who has been playing for the team for 20 years says:
“At present we are top of Division 2 and hopefully looking at promotion back to Division 1. We are a team of star studded internationals, with players from Brazil, Ghana, Thailand, Slovenia, Croatia, England and the Czech Republic as well as our local Kiwis. The highlight of the year is our Annual International where the Kiwis play the Internationals followed by some heavy refreshments”
The honours history of the Rovers is pretty impressive and records have been kept since 1973. The team has won 7 Division 1 titles and 8 Bolam Cups, all in a golden period from 1999 - 2013
Ben added “The star of the show is Dan Evans who travels up from Timaru every week to play for us. He’s been doing this for over 2 seasons which is pretty impressive loyalty”
Rovers play their home games at Linfield Park with a KO time of 2.00pm. This week the guys make the short trip to Avondale Park to play the Bower.
Good Luck Guys!
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