Alpha Vice President disappointed with team’s performance

Apr 26, 2012 Sports

Vice President of Alpha United, Steve Ninvalle, yesterday revealed to this publication that he was disappointed with the team’s performance which was below par of his expectation in the recent Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championship Group II action which was held in Guyana at the National Stadium, Providence.
The team which gained recognition as being the first Guyanese football club to qualify for the CONCACAF Champions League (2011), North America’s premier continental club tournament, earned their berth into the Champions League by finishing in third place in the sub continental tournament.
The 2012 CFU Club Championship (14th edition) saw Alpha squandering a lot of opportunities against their opponents in the Championship. Because of their squanders, Ninvalle stated that the club is still ambivalent about their qualification into the next round despite researching on Wikipedia to discover the team’s name in a group with Caledonia from Trinidad, Islanders from Puerto Rico and George Town from Cayman Islands. “We have not received any official word as yet to whether we are/ are not into the next round of the CFU Club Championship.
I was perusing the internet yesterday (Monday) and saw on Wikipedia that Alpha is in a group which includes Caledonia, Islanders and George Town.”
Although there is no official word from the Caribbean Football Union about the team’s qualification into the next round, the Vice President unveiled that the team is still preparing for the next round of the Championships which commences May 1st and concludes May 6th.
“As it is now, we are still preparing for the next round despite not receiving any official declaration. We are keeping our fingers crossed that we are into the next round.”
Ninvalle, who declared his dissatisfaction of the team’s performance, stated that Alpha can play much better as a unit, “I think I saw the individual skills but as a team we could have performed better.”
He further added that Alpha should have not been defeated by Inter Moengotapoe of Suriname, “We should not have lost to Inter Moengotapoe. We should have defeated them at least by four goals.”
Ninvalle who referred to Inter Moengotapoe’s win as ‘luck’ said that Alpha is only to be held responsible in their present situation.
Asking about future expectation, he stated that they are looking at all options once into the next round, “Alpha is a team that digs deep into any reserve that it has. We expect to even better our game because as the competition goes on it only becomes much more difficult as your opponents will be of a much higher level.” (Juanita Hooper)

Group 2
Matches played April 17–21 at Guyana (host club: Alpha United).
Team   Pld   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD   Pts
Inter Moengotapoe   3   3   0   0   11   3   +8   9
Alpha United   3   2   0   1   5   2   +3   6
Hubentut Fortuna   3   1   0   2   5   7   “2   3
Milerock   3   0   0   3   2   11   “9   0

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