Even before the winter Saturday soccer season ended, training started for national soccer championships. The trials to select the top 15 players in each age grade for the Nelson area had taken place in June and Niall was selected to play as one of the top 15. The 14th Grade, South Island tournament this year was in Dunedin and Nelson were defending the title they had won last season (13th Grade) in Queenstown. As the boys are getting older the competition is getting tougher. There were less teams in the competition this year than in previous years but this meant that the real elite players were concentrated in fewer teams. This also meant the standard of football was higher and great to watch. Unfortunately the pressure of defending their title proved too much for the Nelson team and although they won 5 (out of 6) of their games, they were beaten by the team from Christchurch so came runners-up this year. The weather was very mixed from sunny warm days to sleet and snow on the final day. We had a good time though and stayed on in Dundedin for a few more days. Dunedin is 2 days driving from here so it was good to have a bit of a holiday too.
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