DLLT representatives win inaugural Duncan Edwards Peace Field Trophy
A team made up of local footballers who represented Denis Law Legacy Trust has won the inaugural Duncan Edwards Peace Field Trophy.
Hosted on May 22 in Dudley, Birmingham, the football festival included players who represented four projects that have been twinned with Peace Field, Flanders.
Aberdeen was one of them after Cruyff Court Denis Law became the first football pitch in Scotland to be twinned with Peace Field in November.
The other three competitors were made up of players from Belfast due to its twinned Cregagh Green; Preston and its Sir Tom Finney Preston Football Club; and Dudley with its Duncan Edwards Peace Field site at the Dell Stadium which was home to the tournament.
Each project is both synonymous with being twinned with Peace Field but also for having iconic footballers from yesteryear attached to them with Denis Law, George Best, Sir Tom Finney and Duncan Edwards all represented and remembered.
A team comprised of players from Burntwood Dragons, a community club in the area that also help to make football affordable through local partners, represented Aberdeen’s twinned Cruyff Court and went on to win the tournament.
They were presented the winning trophy by Aston Villa legend and 1982 European Cup winning Captain Dennis Mortimer.
You can read more about the tournament and its background via the official programme here.
The twinning of football pitches with Peace Field is an initiative between partners to promote the use of sport as a tool to bring people of all backgrounds and differences together.
The site in Flanders is famously where rival troops came together in 1914 to play football during a pause in World War One hostilities.
Thank you to Jim Cadman, Chairman of Duncan Edwards UK, for his work and organisation involved in creating this tournament.
Thank you and congratulations also to Burntwood Dragons and all of those involved who helped Denis Law Legacy Trust be so well represented in England, it’s much appreciated by all up here in Aberdeen.
