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Congratulations go out to our Chief Executive Shane Ward who is the player manager of Pele's Pearls over 50's walking football team. In the space of 5 weeks the talented team won the FA People 's Cup with a 2-0 victory over Wakefield in the mixed Walkng Football over 50's catergory. They won the group with 4 wins and 2 draws without conceding a singe goal on finals day. which took place at St Georges Park the FA headquarters. On the the back of that victory the team were asked to represent England in the inaugural Internation Walking Football Federartion World Cup,which took place at Leyton Orients ground in London. They finished as runners up in a group of 7 which meant they qualified for the semi finals where they beat Belgium 1-0 before going on to beat France 2-0 in the final to lift the World Cup .