On 15 June 2013 BELhospice organised the 5th charitable 5-a-side football tournament in Kovilovo Sports Centre. This tournament is traditionally organised annually, and during this year’s tournament more than 11,000 Euros were raised for palliative care of terminally ill cancer patients. The winner of the tournament was football team from Telenor Company.
[separator top=“20″]Following companies participated in this tournament: Actavis, KPMG, Credit Agricole bank, UniCredit bank, SAGA, Telenor, Coca-Cola Hellenic, Executive Group, Moravcevic Vojnovic and partners in cooperation with Schoenherr, Roche, TeleGroup and 204th Air Force Brigade. The tournament was also supported by Nelt&Co Company, Birac Communications, Football Referee Association of Belgrade and Sports Centre Kovilovo, as the host of the tournament.
[separator top=“40″]The winner of the tournament was football team from Telenor Company who prevailed over TeleGroup team with 3:1 in the finals. KPMG Company won third place after being better in match with Roche Company. Winner cups were awarded by Zoran Purkovic, Director of BELhospice, while a special interim cup was awarded by Svetlana Stankovic Vujcic, a representative of the Kovilovo Sports Centre.
[separator top=“40″]Milos Popovic from Telenor team was named the best player of the tournament, having scored 13 goals. Moreover, an exhibition match was played between BELhospice female volunteer’s team and KPMG team, whose bid was the highest at a specially organised public auction. This match was very interesting to watch and ended with a tie of 2:2.
[separator top=“40″]Zoran Purkovic thanked the companies and players for participating in this event, as well as companies and institutions that supported this charitable tournament, for jointly supporting the of BELhospice centre in caring for terminally ill cancer patients. He highlighted that funds raised from this tournament will be sufficient to support the work of one of our medical teams for 6 months. This team will be caring for 30 patients at all times.
[separator top=“40″]See you next year in Kovilovo, at 6th Charitable 5-a-side football tournament „BELhospice 2014“.
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