Hosted By Southampton Legend
Matt Le Tissier
Matt Le Tissier Children´s Tournament 2012
Now in its 4th year, the tournaments have become firmly established as an annual event in the St Mary's Stadium calendar and clubs have found that these events are a great end of season treat for their players.
Our events provide young players with the thrilling and rare opportunity to play at top class venues and imagine what it must be like to be professional footballer on matchday playing in front of thousands of fans. This will be a dream-come-true football "experience" like no other which is sure to be the fondly remembered for years to come.
£45pp +vat
- U7's, U8's, U9's, U10's
- U11's, U12's & U13's
- All Matches On The Pitch
- Tunnel Line-Up & Matchday Anthem
- Visit To Dressing Rooms
- Names Announced Over P.A. System
- Certificates Signed By Celebrity Host
- Matchday Programme
Matt was born in Guernsey and played youth football on the island with Vale Recreation.
On leaving school in 1985, he had a trial at Oxford United but signed for Southampton instead. Matt played his first professional game on 2 September 1986 and went on to play 540 league and cup games for Southampton. He scored 209 goals for The Saints including a phenomenal 47 out of 48 penalties (the one save came from Forest's Mark Crossley). His top-scoring season was 1993-94 when he scored 30 goals which was made even more remarkable by the fact that the side were struggling at the time. The following season he won the Match Of The Day goal of the season award for his drifting 40 yarder against Blackburn Rovers when he scored against his long term friend and former Southampton keeper Tim Flowers.
As a Saints legend, fittingly, he scored the last goal in the final competitive match played at The Dell on 19 May 2001 against Arsenal. After being out for most of the season due of injury, he was brought on as a substitute near the end of the match to the delight of the fans and scored a spectacular left-footed volley from outside the penalty box to earn The Saints a 3-2 win. This was to be Matt's last goal for the club.
Matt could use both feet to pass or shoot, was very skilful, could do the unexpected and often scored spectacular goals. Combined with his loyalty to the club, it was no wonder the fans adored him and gave him the nickname "Le-God". In one famous incident, the television commentator responded to one of his most skilful efforts with the word "Unbelievable" which later became the title of a successful "video autobiography" of the player.
Matt has been honoured by receiving the freedom of the City of Southampton and has also had one of the luxurious hospitality suites at St Mary's Stadium named after him. An apartment block built on the old site of The Dell stadium is also named after him as well as one of the aircrafts in Flybe's fleet.
Matt is now a pundit for Sky Sports Gilette Soccer Saturday programme.
Thanks for the most fantastic day for the Boys they were treated to a day of how a superstar feels and they loved every minute of it, the tunnel they came out of, the playing on the actual turf, the whole sense of occasion was fantastic.
Thanks for the work you put in.
S.Eames - West Wratting Youth, West Wratting – Cambs
Just to congratulate you and everyone who made today run so well. Our boys had a fantastic time today and yesterday and look forward to coming back next year.
J.Roach - Cambourne Eagles, Cambridge - Cambs
Just to let you know everyone had a great day.
After a poor start we managed to sneak through all the way to the 2nd tier final but lost on penalties. My wife e-mailed me today and said my son was crying this morning and didn't want to go to school and wanted to go back to the tournament. That proves he had a fantastic day.
P.Cramer - Aztec FC, Dagenham - Essex
Just a quick note to say a big (enormous) thank you for such a great day out on Saturday. All of the boys and their parents thoroughly enjoyed the day. It was a fabulous day out. I'm still buzzing with excitement. Not only the opportunity to play at the home of football; winning all 4 games; and my boy scoring. It really doesn’t get any better !
J.Clarke - Stortford & Langley Hammers, Bishop's Stortford - Herts
