DISTRIBUTOR giant Ansa McAl Trading Limited through its Stag Beer brand yesterday celebrated another milestone in the company’s 20th anniversary celebration when they concluded the 2012 WDFA Stag Beer Football League presentation of prizes to the winners at a simple ceremony at the company’s boardroom.

Den Amstel Porkknockers FC were crowned the 2012 League champions by defeating Uitvlugt Warriors FC on penalty shootout and saw Young Achievers FC and Stewartville United share the other top spots.
The teams also will receive monetary awards of $200 000, $140 000, $90 000 and $50 000 respectively while the individual prizes saw ace forward and National U-20 player Andre Hector awarded the Most Valuable Player (MVP) honour, Jefferi Perreira winning the Highest Goalscorer prize and former national youth goalkeeper O’Neil Heywood copping the Best Goalkeeper award.
John Maikoo, Stag Beer Brand Manager in his brief remarks thanked the clubs for an incident-free league and pledged his company’s commitment in continuing the support of the league in the new year. He noted that this league was the best for football in Guyana and saw teams qualifying for the Kashif & Shanghai tournament which he highlighted as a success for the association.
He urged the clubs to increase their support to the association in the new year so that more corporate sponsorship programmes can be implemented.
O’Neil Heywood, on behalf of the WDFA and the participating teams thanked the sponsors for the timely support and pledged on behalf of the teams to continue to win under the Stag Beer brand.
Under the Stag Beer brand, Ansa McAl has sponsored two football associations’ senior football league and the results are satisfying that today the major tournament sponsored by the company under the brand, the Kashif & Shanghai Football knockout tournament, was won by one of the two association clubs.
On the West Side the league saw a resuscitation of football after a five- year period and overwhelming support from fans and supporters of the nine participating clubs.