Haiti withdraws from Guinness Street Challenge Tournament

Jun 18, 2012 Sports

– cites flight problems

As the start of the inaugural Guinness Street Football Challenge Tournament draws near, the media was reliably informed via telephone yesterday that Haiti, one of the teams favoured to do well in the competition have withdrawn due to flight problems.
The tournament which was originally scheduled to be competed among six Caribbean nations from June 21-23, at the National Park will now see just five territories vie for total prize money in excess of US$9,000.
The remaining countries in the competition are hosts Guyana, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada.
According to one of the co-ordinators Troy Mendonca, the draw for the tournament will now be done when all the teams arrive, adding that one team will now have the luxury to await the winner s of the two matchups, before they take to the field.
The winner walks away with US$4,000, runner-up- US$2,000, 3rd place- US$1,500 and 4th place- US$1,000.
T&T and Stoke City international Kenwayne Jones will be present in the country during the period of the tournament where he is expected to interact with the teams and fans as the Brand Ambassador.
Meanwhile, National Futsal Head Coach Joseph ‘Bill’ Wilson has been drafted in to assist in the preparations of Team Guyana (Back Circle) as they attempt to win the inaugural title on home soil.
Wilson is a qualified Futsal Coach, who was the Head Coach of the national team when they competed overseas sometime ago.
Full details will appear in a subsequent issue.

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