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Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition

Jun 15, 2012 Sports

 

All systems in place for today’s start; New age limit suits Bygeval

All systems are in place for today’s opening of the Second Edition of the Annual Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition which takes place with a single match between Buxton and Bygeval Secondary schools at the GCC ground, commencing at 15:00hrs.
This year has seen a significant increase in the amount of schools participating in comparison with last year’s tournament which saw 122 teams from across the country in attendance with Government Technical Institute (GTI), being crowned inaugural champions after defeating Linden Technical Institute in the final.
This year the Organisers have changed the age of eligibility after complaints from most schools about the distinct advantage that the Technical Institutes have over them in terms of the quality of players that represented them as against those from the Secondary Schools that fielded much younger players with lesser experience.
The concerns were taken on board and Digicel made the decision to change the age of qualification to 18 years and under thereby making the playing field level.
It is expected that Minister of Sport Dr. Frank Anthony, who kicked off the tournament last year will once again be present to perform a similar task, while Minister of Education Priya Manickchand and or representatives of the Ministry will be there to participate in the proceedings in addition to Digicel’s CEO Gregory Dean, Head of Marketing Jacqueline James and other top Management staff, will be on hand to witness first day’s action.
Meanwhile, Physical Education teacher of Bygeval Raymond Daw in comments to the media said that despite the lack of a proper facility to train, he expects the team to do well simply because of the new age limit.
“Due to the inclement weather we’ve had a setback in our preparations which forced us to use the tarmac because the multipurpose centre was being used for exams”.
Bygeval Secondary is the current defending champions for Region 4, they were knocked of the competition last year by the Government Technical Institute who later went on to win the tournament. Bygeval will be captained by Samuel Charles.

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