“June Madness” Futsal Championships: “We came to win” – Road Warriors

Though not from around these parts, Guyana has a new futsal champion in Road Warriors, who sojourned all the way from neighbouring Brazil to Guyana’s capital city for the recently concluded ‘June Madness’ futsal championships.
The month-long event received the support of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport (MCYS) and distribution giants Ansa McAl and was organised by the renowned Kashif and Shanghai group.

In a riveting final against Sparta Boss in the wee hours of Sunday morning, the Brazilian team triumphed in a 4-2 victory to claim championship status of the inaugural tournament.
Road Warriors were dominant throughout the competition, being the team to score the most goals (40) across the one-month tournament and also producing the highest goal scorer, Luis Da Silva, with 10 goals.
After celebrating their dominant victory, Road Warriors player Peter Atkinson explained the surreal feeling of lifting the trophy.

Atkinson relayed to this publication, “Well, I never expect to win a final, but my teammate, we came from a long way; we put in some work, and we had to win this final, as we said in the last interview I did. We won, that’s it.”
About the final against Spart Boss, he shared, “Yes, they were nervous at first, but when my teammates started knocking around the ball, they started being more relaxed, and we passed the ball around and scored.”
Dubbed favourites from the competition’s onset, given their exploits in last December’s National Futsal Championships, the Road Warriors player explained that their intention to win was always clear.
“This win means a lot to me and my friends from Boa Vista. We came far, and we came to win,” he noted.
Meanwhile, similar emotions of hard work paying off pulsated through the Lady Canaimas camp, who defeated Iconic Ballers in the Women’s Championship final, 5-0.
Lady Canaimas’ leading goal scorer, Sandra Johnson, had a brief chat with this publication regarding their win.
Johnson expressed, “First of all, I would like to thank God. It was really tough; although we had one sub, we had to play and give it our all through the final whistle.”
“Well, it feels really good. I think we deserve it because we trained really, really hard, and yeah, I’m grateful for this,” the women’s champion went on to share.
Both teams carted off massive cash prizes for their exploits on the court.