00:00United by football, there's no beating around the bush capital for these young players.
00:09How many goals are you going to kick this week?
00:13A thousand.
00:14Winning all the games.
00:15Taking corners and pretty much destroying kids.
00:18Drawing more than five and a half thousand children to Canberra,
00:22it's enough to almost rival last year's World Cup.
00:26The Kanga Cup is the biggest junior football tournament in the southern hemisphere.
00:31We've got 355 teams in total.
00:33130 ACT teams, 223 interstate teams, two international teams.
00:38We will be playing approximately 1,250 games in the coming week.
00:44It's an annual highlight on the family calendar.
00:47It's awesome. We've been looking forward to it just as much as the kids.
00:50They're excited, so are we. We're not sleeping.
00:52It gives them the bonding experience with all the girls
00:55and to help female football get bigger in Australia.
00:58With many travelling far and wide, it's a welcome boost for local tourism.
01:03We try to finish our games by four so they have the evening to just relax, go out, explore Canberra.
01:08We are expecting anywhere more than $10 million into the ACT economy.
01:14While most are looking forward to getting onto the field...
01:17I'm going to play Kanga Cup and I'm going to score more than two goals.
01:20Go to play with your friends.
01:26Passing to my teammates and scoring bangers.
01:28..others have different priorities.
01:31We're going go-karting and we're having a team lunch.
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