RECOGNITION
Alphonse Yombi Ayakan, a former Cameroonian footballer and member of the Cameroon squad at the 1990 World Cup in Italy, presented the Hologic trophy to the winning team.
Alphonse Yombi Ayakan is the founder of Deutsche Kamerun-Hilfe e.V.
Great Sport and Great Gestures During First Hologic Soccer Cup
Great sports could be admired on
the first day of February in the sports
hall of Kohlscheid, near Aachen.
For the first time, the A-junior football
women’s team from VSP Grenzwacht
Pannesheide was invited to the
Hologic Soccer Cup. Every team
with outstanding reputation in
women’s football followed the
invitation and so we shared in
thrilling encounters already in the
preliminary rounds.
In the semi-finals, we could admire
everything that makes women’s
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football brilliant: wonderful goals
and thrilling duels, as well as great
technical showpieces. We agreed
that all semi-final participants have
got what it takes to win the Cup,
but finally the women of Weimarer
FFC, who traveled the farthest, took
home the Hologic trophy, promising
to defend it next year.
Alphonse Yombi (pictured above),
gave a man’s shirt sewn in the textile
workshop of “Deutsche Kamerun
Hilfe” (German Cameroon Aid
Association) in Cameroon to
Mayor Christoph von den Driesch,
patronage of this match, who put
it on spontaneously!
No less important was the support
of Africa, especially the support
of Cameroon by the Deutsche
Kamerun-Hilfe e.V. Alphonse Yombi
Ayakan, ex-national football player
of Cameroon, founded Deutsche
Kamerun Hilfe in 2002 after ending
his professional career. He built
up a training and education center
for homeless young people, which
offers them the possibility to acquire
specialized knowledge in many areas,
like carpentry, metal works, art works,
sewing, etc. For the Hologic Soccer Cup event, he brought valuable
African crafts, handmade jewelry
and self-sewn textiles, which were
offered for a small donation at lovely
decorated booth at the hall.