… Players asked to report for three-day trials next week

GREGORY ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson and John ‘Brown Boy’ Waldron are among some of the country’s top futsal players, 40 of them to be exact, who were shortlisted by the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) to represent Guyana at the December 27-30 ExxonMobil/STAG Beer International Futsal tournament.

With Joseph ‘Bill’ Wilson as head coach, a select Guyana team will come up against Morvant Caledonia United from Trinidad and Tobago, ZV All-Stars of Suriname, a team from Sao Paulo Brazil, along with a team each from the East Bank, West Demerara and Linden sub-associations.

According to the organisers, six players will come from Linden, 23 from Georgetown, five from West Demerara, three from the East Bank and three from the East Coast.
It was explained that after the three-day (December 5, 8 and 9) trials the team will be selected, while those who were not lucky to make the cut for the ‘Team Guyana’ side, will head back to their respective sub-associations and make up their unit.

The winning team at the end of the tournament will pocket $1.2M, while second through fourth places will go home with $600 000, $300 000 and $100 000 respectively.
Linden: John Waldron, Deon Charter, Donovan Francis, Kennard Simon, Colwyn Drakes and Rudy Haley (GK).

Georgetown: Gregory Richardson, Jermain Junor, Eusi Phillips, Sheldon Shepherd, Jamal Pedro, Hubert Pedro, Randolph Wagner, Deon Alfred, Daniel Wilson, Kelsey Benjamin, Pernell Schultz, King Solomon Austin, Lennox Cort, Roy Cassou, Dwayne McLennan, Benjamin Opara, Kenny, Eon Alleyne, Andy Duke, Leon Yaw, Wickham Sancho, Orin Jones (GK) and Akel Clarke (GK).

West Demerara: Marvin Josiah, Stephen Jupiter, Kayode King, Dexroy Adams and Travis Bess (GK)

East Bank Demerara: Casey John, Baby Hope, and Dervyn Stewart
East Coast Demerara: Les Charles Critchlow, Phillip Williams and Kevon Garnett