The gloves are off and the boots are on as the nation’s financial heavyweights go head to head in a charity soccer showdown today.
Aiming to raise at least $10,000 for the Children’s Cancer Institute of Australia, AFG mortgage brokers together with representatives from Citibank and ING DIRECT will join Allianz staff to battle it out in a four-team, round robin soccer tournament.
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With the average player pushing 40 years, and the average level of fitness pretty low, the team physio is sure to have his hands full by this afternoon.
AFG state manager NSW Stephen Doyle, match organiser and coach for the AFG team, was upbeat about the team’s chance of success.
“I would like to say thank you to everyone who has enthusiastically agreed to be involved by putting their money where their mouths are for a very worthy cause," he said.
“With limbs on the line I’m sure the pre-match enthusiasm, and perhaps some healthy trepidation, will translate to a highly contested game at Allianz Stadium.”