Guinness Greatest of the Streets Futsal Tournament…
― Sparta Boss show quality again
The Guinness Greatest of the Street futsal tournament continued on Tuesday night at the National Cultural Centre tarmac with eight tantalizing games in the round robin stage with the top 16 teams.
It was the second night of round robin action and despite it being cool and windy the action was very hot. Camp Street All Stars, who are enjoying their fairytale campaign have won again from the penalty spot. After a hard fought nil-all draw at the end of full time against the seasoned Broad Street Bullies, the Camp Street unit prevailed 3-2 shooting sudden death penalties. This follows a similar result in the opening night of the round robin stage when they came out on top of Stevedore also from the spot.
A heated battle for the ball was on at the National Cultural Centre tarmac on Tuesday night
Omallo Williams’ brace ensured that Leopold Street knock the wind out of the sail of Up Like Seven with a comfortable 2-1 win. Williams opened the scoring in the 4th and slot in another in the 15th to put Leopold Street two goals up and in firm control. However, Dwayne Lowe would score a consolation goal for Up Like Seven who have now suffered their second consecutive defeat of this stage. This is Lowe’s second goal is his side’s losing efforts.
Queen Street Tiger Bay also remained unbeaten in this stage after needling Channel Nine Warriors. James Meredith made the difference between the teams with a conversion in the 20th minute of the ding dong battle.
Stevedore lost from the penalty spot once again after holding Bent Street to a 1-1 stalemate after fulltime. Keifer Brandt put Stevedore ahead in the 10th minute but as they were entertaining thoughts of a second round victory Daniel Wilson replied in the 17th with a goal of his own to level things up until the time on the clock expired.
North East La Penitence produced a sterling performance and delivered a 1-0 blow to Festival City Warriors. Both teams were unbeaten heading into the game and it took some brilliance from Calvin Moore in the 21st minute to seal the deal in the tussle.
Moore’s goal proved to be the final one for the night as the remaining three games failed to produce a goal and had to be decided from the penalty spot.
North Ruinveldt who defeated West Back Road in their previous game could not replicate their brilliance against Tucville and after the nil-all stalemate went down 0-2 from the line.
After failing to score during regulation time, West Back Road were near perfect from the spot where the beat Back Circle 3-1.
Albouystown ‘A’ played a spirited game to hold defending champions, Sparta Boss to a scoreless draw. However, from the penalty spot the champions showed their class prevailing 3-2 on sudden death kicks.
The excitement returns to Demerara Park tonight with eight more games from 19:00h.
Teams in action will be; Bent Street against Camp Street All Stars, North East La Pentance tackling Up Like Seven, Stevedaore matching skills against Broad Street Ballers, Tucville coming up against West Back Road, Albouystown ‘A’ versus Channel Nine Warriors, Festival City tackling Leopold Street, North Ruimveldt challenging Back Circle and Sparta Boss coming up against Queen Street Tiger Bay.
The teams will all be vying for over one million dollars in cash and prizes with the first team taking home $500,000 while second, third and fourth will cart off with $200,000, $150,000 and $75,000 respectively.
