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Turbo Football Tournament Coach Bess upbeat about Pouderoyen’s chances
Head Coach of Pouderoyen Football Club, Travis Bess, is optimistic about his team’s chances heading into this Sunday’s semifinal clash of the Third Annual Turbo Energy Drink knockout football tournament against the pre-tournament favourites, Fruta Conquerors U20s, citing his team’s great fighting spirit as the X factor for the last four meetings.
Pouderoyen will be looking to make their first Turbo Knockout football final when they clash with Fruta Conquerors in Sunday’s semifinal.
Bess, who has been in charge of the West Bank Demerara based outfit for a few years during an interview with Kaieteur Sport, noted that he is not fazed with his team’s underdog status because football has to be played on the day.
“No it doesn’t bother us that we are seen as the underdogs and we have so far fought against all odds to be in this weekend’s semifinals. We actually had it tougher since we had to play an extra game against Eastveldt in a qualifier to make it into the last 16 of the tournament before we were up against a very youthful Pele FC team”, Coach Bess expanded.
Coach Travis Bess
Bess, who works as a Goalkeeper Coach for the national Under-20 male team that will be travelling to Nicaragua next for U20 Boys Concacaf Championship, posited that his team, “Have shown that we are willing to fight and we have fought hard to be at this stage.”
En route to the semifinal, Pouderoyen proved their mettle against Eastveldt in the qualifier winning 2-1 courtesy of goals off the boots of Quessey Alleyne and Ej Mars. In the round-of-16, an own goal a
nd a goal from Stephen Jupiter allowed them to beat Pele 2-0 while last Sunday’s quarterfinal against Buxton Under-20 was won via kicks from the penalty mark after full and extra time were deadlocked 1-1.
Pouderoyen’s fixture against Fruta Conquerors Under-20s is scheduled for 18:30hrs at the Ministry of Education (MOE) ground on Carifesta Avenue according to the latest release from the promoters of the tournament, Petra Organisation.
The feature match this Sunday will see Georgetown Football Club (GFC) matching skills with defending champions Northern Rangers at 20:30hrs. This has quashed the protest made by Santos FC contesting GFC’s quarterfinal win against them, noting in a letter seen by this publication that Gregory Stevens and Paul Fields of Grove Hi Tech and Deon Alfred of Beacon FC were not legally transferred to contest for GFC in last Sunday’s quarterfinal match.
However, Co-Director of Petra, Troy Mendonca in an invited comment shared that while at the promoters’ level he believes GFC should play the semifinal, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) that governs all football in Guyana, can still step in and make a final ruling.
The champions of this tournament will pocket $400,000 with second place bagging $200,000, third place $100,000 and fourth place $50,000.
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