Fruta Conquerors U-20 and Georgetown Football Club (GFC), two teams that have high quality youth players, will go head-to-head for championship honours in the Turbo Energy Drink Football tournament on Sunday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.
On Friday, Petra Organisation held a press briefing for the two finalists and it was little words said by players and coach.
Conquerors U-20 Head Coach, Wayne St. Jules: “We are not underrating GFC; it is a good team. From what I saw, they have been playing good football, but we are coming with our A-Game and I hope they come with a triple A because we are coming all ‘guns’ blazing.”
GFC Head Coach, Dellon Cadogan: “I think the victory will go to the team with least mistakes. From time to time we having been working to make the least mistakes because as you know in a final there is no room for mistakes. Let’s leave the talking for the field and let’s watch football to the highest.”
GFC Captain, Kelsey Benjamin: “Sunday won’t be an easy game because we are coming against old teammates, schoolmates. We play together and know each other and it won’t be easy, so may the best team win.”
Conquerors U-20 Captain, Nicholas McArthur: “We are coming to play the football we know to play. Everyone knows GFC is a good team, that is a club that I came from but they have to do their best to beat us because we beat them already and they have to come very hard to beat us.”
The main objective by sides are to just bring their best and leave it all out on the pitch with a $400,000 championship prize at stake. For the sponsors, they firmly believe their objective has been achieved this tournament.
Turbo Energy Drink Brand Manager, Raymond Govinda: “So far as a company we are very pleased with the tournament. This tournament would have met its purpose in the sense that we would have seen some young talents coming out and we are very happy and at Guyana Beverages Inc. we will continue to invest in football.”
Pouderoyen and former champions Northern Rangers will do battle in the third-place playoff, which commences at 19:00h.
Second to fourth will pocket $200,000, $100,000 and $50,000 respectively. Individual prizes will also be awarded to the Most Valuable Player, Highest Goalscorer and Best Goalkeeper.
