The annual Church meet Streets football tournament will pit some of the country’s best church sides against community teams dueling it out for top honors as C & A unique in collaboration with South Quake Youth Ministry will on May 5 run off their second football competition at Tucville Secondary School ground.
This was revealed by organizer of the tournament, Carlos Griffith who added that this tournament is likely to surpass what was achieved the last time the event was hosted prompting a change in venue from the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall to the Tucville Secondary School ground.
Flashback! The victorious Titans display their silverware in the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall in 2016
Griffith noted that the venue is in superb shape for the event and fans can expect a nice day of riveting five a side futsal action.
Being officially launched on Friday, Griffith informed this publication that the prizes would have been doubled overall since the last time, moving up from $50,000 to $150,000 while second place winners will pocket 25,000 and third 15,000 dollars and trophies.
Not only has the purse increased but the competition will see the inclusion of various teams from Linden, Berbice, West Coast and West Bank Demerara as well as East Coast Demerara which is set to increase excitement.
The national holiday should provide futsal fans with plenty of action starting from 08:30h with 20 teams being involved in the exciting competition.
While there is no registration fee for teams admission to the venue is set at $400 per person.
Last year it was a Church team that captured the title as Titans got past Tucville Street side 6-5 on penalty shootout after the exciting 14-minute encounter end 1 all at full time in the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
After each of the five players from both sides had scored, Titan’s Dwayne McLennan netted the winning goal in a game with saw fast paced and aggressive football with neither team dominating the other.
By the seven-minute halftime whistle the score line was nil-all. The second half saw desperate attempts to score by both and just when it seemed the would end scoreless, Jermaine Tinch put Tucville ahead when he found the back of the net in the last minute.
But Amias Benjamin clung on to faith like Job in the Bible and scored the equalizer with 20 seconds remaining in the match.
