… Santos confident of win over GFC

IT IS anticipated that tonight’s final in the Joshua Denny Memorial Under-20 football tournament will be very strongly contested when Santos FC confront Georgetown Football Club (GFC) at 20:30hrs.

Coach of Santos, Calvin ‘Flu’ Allen, while expressing confidence in winning,, cited the ‘respect for the family of a very humble and talented footballer, who unfortunately lost his life is of equal importance’.

His opposite Akedo Softley, stated that his players are mentally ready and he expects a solid performance from them in the feature game of the double-header, set for the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

The spearhead for the ‘Bourda Blues’ side will be National U-20 Ravi Coates, with main support from Mikkel Mills who missed the opening game. The powerful Santos line-up will include Junior and Senior National Darren Niles, along with National youth goalkeeper Ronaldo Blair and another former youth national, Solomon Austin.

Preceding the final will be a battle for third- place honours between losers of the first round, Fruta Conquerors FC and Camptown FC, beginning at 18:30hrs.

The inaugural competition in memory of the late Denny, who was robbed and gunned down a year ago, is organised by the Petra Organisation in tandem with,Aferya Denny, mother of the former Camptown FC and North Georgetown Primary Pee Wee player.

According to Mrs Denny, ‘the objective of the competition is to sensitise the public and, moreso the youths, about working to achieve their goals instead of crime’, while the theme is ‘Mothers against Crime’.

In the opening two games played on September 23, Santos swamped Camptown 6-1 and GFC eked out a 2-1 victory over Fruta Conquerors.