AFTER TONIGHT, eight teams will no longer be a part of this year’s sixth edition of the Georgetown Guinness ‘Greatest of De Streets’ Futsal football tournament, as the round of 16 action kicks off at the National Cultural Centre tarmac from 19:00hrs.Over 50 teams registered to enter this competition which got underway two weeks ago, forcing the organisers to play a qualifying round for some teams’ entrance into the main frame, with one of those teams, West Back Road earning the tag of ‘giant killers’, following their first round win over ousted champions Queen Street-Tiger Bay.
Two other teams in North East LaPenitence and Broad Street Bullies were given the red card out of the tournament for un-sportsmanlike conduct, even though they had already qualified for tonight’s round of 16, phase, of the tournament.
Tonight’s action will see Leopold Street with Okenny Fraser in their lineup, taking on Festival City Street Fighters, one of the teams that was asked to compete in the qualifying tournament, followed by Cross Street with players such as Ronaldo Dover and Samuel Hunte opposing West Back Road, that will be looking to Akeem ‘Too Cute’ Fitzpatrick and Keon Caesar for their victory.
Hope Street-Tiger Bay will need to pull out all stops, if they intend to get past Gerald Gritten, Joshua Browne and Travis ‘Zorro’ Grant of North Ruimveldt when the two sides meet in the third fixture of the night, which can be a humdinger.
The fourth game of the night before the Guinness break brings together West Front Road ‘Gold is Money’, with a lineup that includes Hubert and Wendell Pedro and Stellon David, facing up to the Paul Port and Devon Hyman led Island All-star team.
After the break, Albouystown ‘A’ with Shaka Jones and Stefan McLean meet Globe Yard, even as Andy Duke and Vincent Thomas will look to lead 2012 national champions Back Circle past Albouystown ‘B’, followed by the penultimate clash of the night involving Alexander Village and Festival City Warriors.
The curtains will come down with Sparta Boss for whom Dennis Edwards, Cleyon Forrester, Eusi ‘Boneyman’ Phillips and playmaker Devon ‘Don Don’ Millington is set to appear, clashing with South Sophia who will have in their lineup, Shemroy Arthur and Sheik Kamal.
Both South Sophia and Cross Street will want to prove to the organisers that they belong in the competition which has a first place prize of $600,000, after they were given the lifeline as the two best third placed teams out of the preliminary rounds, following the expulsion of the two teams.

(By Calvin Roberts )