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New Amsterdam United avenges loss to Cougars FC to clinch U-19 football friendly

Sep 04, 2015 Sports

New Amsterdam United FC (NAUFC) had suffered an earlier defeat to Cougars FC during the preliminary stages but rebounded to avenge the loss with a 1 nil victory when the two teams clashed in the finals of an U19 football tournament organized by football lovers in New Amsterdam at the All Saints Scot’s Church Ground, Princess Elizabeth Road New Amsterdam Berbice, last Sunday afternoon. Jamal Butts was on target for the winners in the 15th minute after dribbling past the opposition’s defense. Both teams then tightened their defense and goals were difficult to come by with the final whistle handing the honours to NAUFC.
In the semi final affair between NAUFC and Monedderlust Football Club (MFC), the former team got the better of the latter, 3-2 on penalty kicks after the game ended 1-1 at the end of regulation time.
Cougars Football Club (CFC) also won on sudden death penalty kicks over Hopetown United (HU) after that game also ended in a nil all stalemate with the initial 5 penalty kicks failing to decide a winner.
During the preliminary stages NAUFC and HFC played to a 0-0 draw, MFC won from HU 1-0 while the game between RU and CFC ended in a 0-0 draw. HU then defeated Santos 1-0 with CFC taking the honours over NAU 1-0. Santos and MFC then drew their game 0-0 while the game between HFC and RU also ended in 0-0 draw with the encounter between CFC and HFC ending in a similar stalemate. NAUFC then rebounded with a 1 nil victory over RU to book their place in the semifinal.
In all, seven teams vied for honours in 20 minutes duels and were placed in two groups; Monedderlust Football Club (MFC), Hopetown United (HU) and guest team Santos football club of Georgetown (Group A) while Group B consisted of New Amsterdam United (NAU), Hope Football Club (HFC), Rosignol United (RU) and Cougars Football Club (CFC). The games were 20 minutes duration each.
The presentation ceremony followed immediately afterwards and NA United collected the winning trophy and 15 gold medals while Cougars received a trophy and 15 silver medals for their second place position. Monedderlust was awarded third place and copped a trophy and 15 bronze medals. The MVP award and accompanying trophy went to Raymond Emmanuel of Cougars. The day’s activity was coordinated by former national footballer, Neil ‘Grizzly’ Humphrey.

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