Young footballers across the coastland will show up and show out on Saturday as they commence the ExxonMobil Under-14 Schools’ football league.
The first of its kind, the competition was launched just a few weeks ago and would cater for both males and females.
Some of the participants at a team briefing last week
According to Petra Co-Director Troy Mendonca, the league will bridge the gap for school football between the pee-wee league and the secondary school league.
Although the 24 male teams will get down to business on Saturday, the eight female teams will have to wait a little before they are in competition mode.
The females will have the privilege of learning new skills before their games begin. As such, the male league will run for seven weeks while the females will go for five weeks.
It is the hope of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) that the tournament will identify and improve talent ahead of the Under-14 Caribbean Football Union (CFU) male and the Under-15 CONCACAF female championships slated for later this year.
The action is expected to kick off at 10:00h on June 2, at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.
