A capacity crowd that included even New Amsterdam Mayor Winifred Haywood, besides Guinness Brand Manager Lee Baptiste, Berbice Branch Manager Joshua Torrezao, and GT Beer Brand Manager Jeoff Clement, among others, witnessed the opening night of the Berbice Zone Guinness Greatest of the Streets soccer competition, which is being played at the New Amsterdam Stelling.
Commencement followed a short break after the conclusion of the East Coast Zone, but the increasingly popular street phenomenon once again enjoyed massive support from fans; and the teams that battled for Round of 16 spots did not disappoint, as they produced some exciting matches to crown a wonderful restart to this competition.
New Amsterdam Mayor Winifred Haywood doing the ceremonial kick-off to signal the start of competition on Friday evening
With a chance to compete in the national playoffs, and with prize money totalling in excess of $700,000 up for grabs, fans were treated to a sizzling exhibition of skill in the shorter version of the game of soccer.
Among the early winners were Hopetown, Dam Boys, Trafalgar, Tucber Giants, and Street Knights.
The competition was set to resume last evening with more action at the same venue, where another large crowd is anticipated.
Below are the night’s full results:
Guinness Goal-(GG)-2 Goals
Game 1
No5 ‘A’ vs Young Strikers ‘A’
Young Strikers ‘A’ won via walkover Game 2
Hopetown: 2, vs Young Strikers: 1
Hopetown Scorers: Cedric Osbourne – 4th,
Darren Douglas – 15th; Young Strikers Scorer:
Andrew Chisholm – 8th Game 3
Canje: 0, vs Dam Boys: 0
Dam Boys won 1-0 on penalty kicks Game 4
Goal-Last United vs Soccer Ville
Soccer Ville won via walkover Game 5
Trafalgar: 2, vs Tucber Stars: 1
Trafalgar Scorer: Adrian Price (GG) – 19th
Tucber Scorer: Colin Bowry – 5th Game 6
Rose Hall Town: 0, vs Tucber Giants: 8
Graham Thomas – 7th, 13th and (GG) -19th;
John Lyte (GG) -18th
Xavier Fraser – 5th
Rawle Caesar – 14th Game 7
Street Knights: 3, vs Ol Skool: 0
Kevin Dey (GG) – 18th
Reshawn Pilgrim – 6th Game 8
Young Squad vs Platinum Squad
Platinum won via walkover Game 9
City Ville: 0, vs Top-7: 0
Top-7 won 1-0 on penalty kicks Game 10
Prison: 0, vs Twenties: 1
Kevon Williams – 7th Game 11
Lichfield United: 0, vs Big Ballers: 0
Lichfield won 2-1 on sudden death
penalty kicks Game 12
Orealla Falcons: 3, vs NA Constabulary: 2
