The quality of futsal tournaments being staged recently will certainly guarantee a high standard of play when the inaugural Guinness Cage Competition is held in collaboration with Three Peat Promotions — commencing on August 24th at the National Gymnasium.
A release from the organisers predicts that the new and exciting format would produce a brand of football never seen before, and choosing a winner will prove to be a difficult undertaking.
With thirty-two of the top teams in the indoor format scheduled to compete, including a team made up of Brazilians, one of the world’s most powerful nations in the sport, fans could expect eight nights of riveting action for prize money totalling in excess of $800,000.
The winning team is set to receive $400,000; while second, third and fourth placed finishers will take home $200,000, $100,000 and $50,000 along with trophies.
A source close to the organisers pointed out that with the dip in form of Sparta Boss, the most successful team in the small-goal format, the door is now open for another team to step up and assume superiority.
Teams such as Linden’s Dave & Celena All Stars, who’re the current Guinness National champions; Future Stars, West Front Road ‘Gold is Money’, the Brazilian combination, Tucville, Back Circle, Albouystown and Bent Street must be thinking of replacing Sparta Boss, undoubtedly the most dominant team over the past two years.
The National Gymnasium has become home to exciting futsal action, and the upcoming tournament will be no different
Another compelling reason for any team to win the tournament is the fact that they would go down in history as the winners of the inaugural event, a feat that will be etched in the annals of the competition’s history.
Teams have been engaged in serious preparation ever since the tournament was announced, and it is anticipated that from Day One the excitement will begin, as they seek to make it through the knockout phase over the two opening nights.
Among the stars on show are Future Stars’ Akeemo Anthony, Keiron Solomon and Jeremy Garrett; Broad Street’s Jimmy Gravesande and Lenox Cort; Sparta Boss’s Devon Millington, Gregory Richardson and Sheldon Shepherd; Tucville’s Jermaine Junior and Delon Williams; Dave & Celena’s Rawle Gittens, Keon Sears, Kenard Simon, Randolph Wagner, Hubert Pedro and Jamal Pedro.
The other playing dates for the championship are August 29 and 31; September 2, 5, 7, 9; with the final set for September 16, at the same venue.
Some of the teams invited so far are: Georgetown — Sparta Boss, West Front Road ‘Gold is Money’, Back Circle, Future Stars, Leopold Street, Broad Street, Queen Street Tiger Bay, Albouystown, North East La Penitence, Tucville, Sophia, North Ruimveldt; East Bank Demerara- Champion Boys; Linden – Dave and Celena’s All-Stars; West Demerara – Showstoppers, Hustlers, ESPN; East Coast – BV, Melanie, Plaisance.
