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Stag Beer Inter-Village 5-aside football kicks off tonight…Top city teams to invade the West Side

Aug 22, 2014 Sports

After being postponed for over a week, the Ansa McAl/Stag Beer Inter-Village 5-a-side football tournament is set to kick off tonight at the Vergenoegen Rice Mill Tarmac from 19:00hrs and some of Guyana’s best street football players will take center stage.
The tournament will see teams from outside of the West Demerara competing since according to the organizers, the overwhelming response has forced their hands to make a change.
“With the inclusion of teams from Georgetown, the tournament is now more interesting and will surely add more than flair and excitement. We were basically bombarded by those teams to be part of it, so, we had to postpone from our initial start to accommodate them” said coordinator Collin ‘BL’ Aaron.
Aaron pointed out that the tournament will feature over 16 teams, though not giving an exact amount noting, “We’ve received more teams that we expected but we’ll chose enough which will allow us to finish within the stipulated playing dates”.
Apart from the opening action tonight, the tournament will continue on August 22, 27, 29 and 31, along with September 3, 5 and the grand final on September 7. While the winners will pocket $200,000, second through fourth places will go home with $100,000, $75,000 and $25,000 respectively.
This is first time an event of such nature is being held on the ‘West Side’ and the organizers are optimistic of a successful tournament, with Aaron pointing out, “nothing much is happening in football, especially on the ‘West Side’ and people are hungry for some action, especially the players, so I believe this is a great start for something we hope will be an annual feature which will grow into something big.”
The Vergenoegen Rice Mill Tarmac and Pouderoyen Basketball Court are the two venues that are slated to host matches. Slingerz Family will provide nightly entertainment and apart from the games being free for the football loving public, lucky patrons will have a chance to cash in on several give-a-ways.

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