WITH just a few days to go before the start of the 11th Annual Courts Optical Pee Wee Under-11 Football tournament, participating teams attended a briefing exercise yesterday at the National Library on Church Street. The tournament will kick off on Saturday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Schools from Georgetown were in attendance while participants from the other administrative regions took part via an online platform.
International drilling company, Stena Drilling Guyana Inc., was introduced as a co-sponsor.
Troy Mendonca, Co-Director of Petra Organisation, organisers of the tournament, disclosed that 36 teams will compete, representing eight of the ten administrative regions.
Teams will be divided into nine groups of four to compete in a round with the top teams
advancing to the playoffs.

“Stena Drilling Guyana Inc. will provide support to several of the regional teams, and we welcome their commitment to come on board joining our premier sponsors Courts Optical this year”, Mendonca added.
Alberto Lener, Operations Engineer of Stena Drilling, said his company is thrilled to be supporting the tournament as part of its corporate social commitment responsibility. Also in attendance on behalf of the Company were Craig Gordon – Logistics Controller and Christina Ramroop, Local Content Officer.

Richard Simpson, Courts Optical Manager, said the tournament has grown over the past decade producing many players who would have gone on to represent Guyana.
“Unicomer Guyana Inc. is proud to be part of the exciting journey and celebrating the young talent on show.

The tournament was approved by the Ministry of Education with other sponsors being Sterling Products Limited, MVP Sports, Igloo Ice Cream and the National Sports Commission.
There will be the traditional march past of teams at 09:00 hours on Saturday before the action starts at 10:00 hours. The tournament will run until November 2.
St. Pius Primary School of Georgetown is the defending champion.