Saturday, November 7, 2009

Longest 5-a-side football game-Surrey County Council sets world record

  CAMBERLEY, UK--Two teams from Surrey County Council ran around Collingwood College's indoor pitch, in Camberley, for an exhausting 27 hours and 15 minutes (final score of 536 - 362) to raise cash for charity-setting the new world record for the Longest 5-a-side football game .

   The players raised more than £1,000 for the Esher hospice, a portion of which will also go to the NSPCC. ( enlarge photo )

    Aaron Guiver, 19, who works in the council’s contact centre said: “It was a lot of fun although the players resembled the living dead as the hours passed.
    "It really was a case of willing minds and failing bodies by the end but we made it and broke the record.

   Denise Saliagopoulos, Surrey County Council
    "Both teams should be congratulated for their fantastic efforts in raising money for two such good causes. Well done to everyone involved."

  The previous Guinness world record holders, 16 members of a central London church, played for 26 hours.