Tonight is final night for preliminary round action

PRELIMINARY round action in this year’s fourth annual Mackeson ‘Keep Your Five Alive’ Futsal tournament, which is being played under the theme ‘Your Five, Your Style, Your Stout, Mackeson Keep Your Five Alive’, will kick off tonight at the Albouystown hard court at 20:00hrs.Five more matches will be contested tonight, from which the winners will move into next Saturday’s round of 16 clashes scheduled for the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) tarmac.
Tonight’s opening action will pit the hardworking Alexander Village against Vryheid’s Lust Champs in the opening encounter, followed by Upsetters of West Ruimveldt taking on King Street Ballers.
The third game will be an East Coast versus Georgetown affair, when Melanie who had a creditable showing in the East Coast Guinness ‘Greatest of de Streets’ competition in which one of their teams took home the top prize and another place third, will face Rasville, who will be coming to upstage their more illustrious opponents.
Charlestown and North East La Penitence will square off in the fourth fixture for the night, before Albouystown and Laing Avenue renew their rivalry in the final fixture.
Already, defending champions Sparta Boss, Sophia, Albouystown ‘B’, Broad Street, La Parfaite Harmonie, Back Circle, Tiger Bay ‘A’, Leopold Street, Texas and West Front Road, have all booked their spots in the next round.
The tournament’s coordinator Kevin Adonis is charging all teams, including defending champions Sparta Boss, to keep fit since the tournament will be played on a knockout basis. He warned the regular teams in Georgetown to expect some strong challenges from their out-of-town-based opponents.
“This year, I have decided to include teams such as Victoria, Vryheid’s Lust, Plaisance, Beterverwagting, Melanie and La Parfaite Harmonie, just to name a few, in the lineup and as you are aware some of the East Coast-based teams are coming off the back of a similar tournament.
“This means they are coming fit and have already presented a strong challenge to the other teams, so I am calling on the teams to be fit in order to ‘Keep Your Five Alive’,” said Adonis, who emphasised on winning as there will be no second opportunities.
Teams are asked to note carefully, that only those who have been registered on the registration form provided will be allowed to compete, with no alterations being allowed during the course of the tournament, only in the case of injury which must occur during the playing of the competition.
“In addition to the tournament, there will be an Axe halftime show compliments of that product’s main distributor in Guyana, DeSinco Trading, which is being dubbed the ‘Take and Shoot’ competition, for which fabulous prizes will be up for grabs, along with the regular Mackeson giveaways,” said Adonis.
Apart from Ansa McAl and DeSinco Trading, some other sponsors of the tournament, which has three playing days remaining after tonight, are: Colours Boutique, Clairan’s Boutique, Clear Water, Star Party Rentals, White Castle Fish Shop, and HJTV and its 94.1 Boom FM, just to name a few.

(Calvin Roberts)