FUTSAL football-loving fans in the Capital City of Georgetown are expected to swarm the Albouystown-based Punt Trench and School Street tarmac tonight, for the penultimate night of action in this year’s third annual Mackeson ‘Keep Your Five Alive’ tournament.

Forty-eight teams started the tournament in the hunt for the top prize of $300 000, but only the six – favourites Albouystown ‘B’ and Sparta Boss, along with Riverview, Alexander Village, Festival City and West Front Road – kept their five alive.
Certainly, tonight’s encounters will be mouth-watering for fans of the sport, who have been turning out in their numbers to cheer on their favourite teams, especially Albouystown ‘B’ and Sparta Boss, two teams who are expected to collide in Saturday’s final, unless an upset occurs along the way.
The opening fixture for tonight will see the Shem Porter-led Alexander Village lineup which includes Quincy Jerome and Dion (only name given), up against a formidable foe in West Front Road, who will be looking to brothers Wendell and Hubert Pedro and Nathaniel Nagaloo, to see them through to the semis.
There will be two exhibition matches between teams that are to be decided upon by the organiser of this tournament, Kevin Adonis, and following the completion of the first exhibition contest, the home team Albouystown ‘B’ will match skills with Festival City.
Shaka Jones, Roy Samuels and Devon Forde are three of the players who will be looking to steer the home team into the semis, against the wiles of Mark Williams, Odell Williams and Paul Bobb, who no doubt would have the same ideas in mind for Festival City.
Following the final exhibition matchup, the Devon Millington, Dennis Edwards and Jerome Weekes-led Sparta Boss lineup will go head-to-head with a defiant-looking Riverview side who will be looking to spring a surprise on their more illustrious opponents and will be relying on Quincy Weekes, Rolex Smith and Kenneth Jackson to achieve same.
Adonis has planned to use the 2013 Pepsi Indian Premier League qualifying method to arrive at the two finalists who will compete for the top prize Saturday night at the National Cultural Centre tarmac, since three teams will be going forward from tonight’s action.
In this regard, the winner of the first matchup (which is virtually a semifinal), will automatically book a place in the final, while the losing side will play the other qualifying team, giving that side another chance to make the final.
Two exhibition matches, one of which will see the Rasville lineup in action, will be used to whet the appetite of the fans who are expected to throng the venue Saturday night and help bring another successful Futsal football tournament to an end.