Guyana’s chances of being one of the Caribbean Football Union’s (CFU) representative at the CONCACAF Futsal Championship in May came to a crashing end following their nail-biting 4 – 3 loss to Trinidad and Tobago at the Caribbean Futsal Tournament in Cuba, yesterday.The Guyanese had already suffered 5 – 2 to Curacao on the tournament’s opening day and needed a win against Trinidad to stay in contention of being one of two teams coming out of their group which also features Antigua and Barbuda.

Antigua was also officially eliminated from the tournament, picking up their second loss to Curacao, going down 5 – 0.

Trinidad picked up their first win by defeating Antigua 7 – 1 and after day two results; it means that Twin Island Republic and Curacao would advance to next round of the tournament as the two teams from Group ‘A’.

Cuba is the only Group ‘B’ team that is certain of reaching the semi-final stage, since the host nation picked up two consecutive wins, leaving St Maarteen and Guadeloupe to battle it out for the other place.

Both countries had a win and a loss each and their third and final group stage game will determine Group B’s other team to advance.

Meanwhile, Guyana played their final Group ‘A’ match against Antigua last evening but up to press time, Chronicle Sport was still awaiting the result of the match.

At Guyana’s last outing at the tournament (2008), they finished fourth behind winners and hosts Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti (second place) and Suriname (third place).

The top two teams from the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) tournament will advance to the CONCACAF Futsal Championship. The 2016 CONCACAF Futsal Championship will be held in Costa Rica in May.

Same as previous editions, the CFU Futsal tournament acts as the CONCACAF qualifiers for the FIFA Futsal World Cup. The top four teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup in Colombia as the CONCACAF representatives.