Kashif and Shanghai “One Guyana” futsal billed for Easter Sunday start

Thirty-two of the top futsal teams from Georgetown, West Demerara, the East Bank and East Coast of Demerara, Berbice and Linden will head to Georgetown pretty soon for the Kashif and Shanghai “One Guyana” Futsal Tournament.
The tournament is set to commence on Easter Sunday, April 9 and will see teams vying for a whopping million-dollar grand prize.
One half of the K&S Organisation, Kashif Muhammad, during Wednesday’s launch at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport’s Board Room on Main Street, Georgetown, spoke of the impact that the format could have on the sport and revealed some of their plans going forward.
“Futsal is an extremely important aspect of the development of football in the world. I read a book and they told you about Brazil, the number 1 futsal nation on the planet. The success to their entire story in manufacturing top-class and world-class players, is because they all start at the futsal level and this is something that we, the Kashif and Shanghai Organisation, will be doing, collaborating with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport,” Muhammad shared.
The renowned football organiser went on to disclose, “One of the things that we will be doing, we will be venturing big time into school futsal. So, very soon after this championship, we will see a nice inter-school futsal tournament being played.”
His business partner, Aubrey “Shanghai” Major went on to reveal the tournament prizes. With the eventual champions set to pocket $1 million, second place will receive $500,000. Third and fourth place will settle for $200,000 and $100,000 respectively.
As is customary, the Most Valuable Player (MVP) will receive a motorcycle, while K&S will be following the trend of rewarding fans. However, the organisation has upped the number of lucky fans to six, all of whom will win motorcycles.
In addition, Frank “English” Parris revealed the tournament’s format and teams to expect.
“We tried to be as diverse as we can with the selecting of teams for the One Guyana National Futsal championship,” Parris shared.
He went on to add, “The tournament will be a round-robin starting on the ninth of April, finishing on the 20th of May and the finals will be kept on the National Park Tarmac. Of course, we will have four to five games every night. We will also try to include a female section coming to the knockout stages of the tournament.”