Team Guyana firm favourites to win inaugural Caribbean Guinness Street Challenge

Jun 23, 2012 Sports

Now that the inaugural Caribbean Guinness Street Challenge Futsal Tournament has begun, local fans after witnessing first night action at the National Park are even more convinced now that Team Guyana have an excellent chance of keeping the lucrative first prize right here in Guyana.

Guyana cruised past Antigua and Barbuda 5-1, before squeezing past Trinidad and Tobago 1-0, but that was after missing a few golden opportunities to widen their advantage.

However, it was clear that Guyana, the original exponents of this particular format in the sport in the Caribbean, was the best team on show and barring over confidence or a below par performance should be able to hold off the visiting teams and grab the US$4,000 1^st prize, 1^st runner-up collects US$2,000, 2^nd runner-upUS$1,500 and 3^rd runner-upUS$1,000.

Also, Guinness Brand Ambassador and Trinidad and Tobago Captain and Stoke City star Kenwyne Jones arrived in the country on Thursday evening and met with Banks DIH officials, Acting President of the Guyana Football Federation Franklin Wilson, Permanent Secretary within the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport Alfred King and teams during the proceedings.

The points table after the opening round is as follows:

Teams               GP     W        D         L         GF       GA      GD      Points 

Antigua                          2       –          –           2          0          5          –           0

Guyana                           2       2          0          –          6          0          6          6

St Vincent                      2       2          0          0          1          0          1          6

St Lucia                          2       0          0          2          0          3          -3         0

Trinidad and Tobago    2       1          1          –           2          1          1          3

Meanwhile, in the night’s full results:
Game 1   St Lucia 0 versus St Vincent 1
Goal Scorer
Juma Jilkes 3rd min
Game 2   Guyana 5 vs. Antigua 0
Goal Scorers
Daniel Favorite 5th and 14th
Bertie Pedro 8th and 19th min
Vincent Thomas 10th min
Game 3 Trinidad and Tobago 2 vs. St Lucia 0
Goal Scorer
Antonio Belfour
Game4   Antigua 0 vs. St Vincent 0
St Vincent won 2-1 on penalty kicks
Goal Scorers
Antigua
Omal Henry
St Vincent
Teon Gordon
Kirk Williams
Game 5 Guyana 1 vs. Trinidad and Tobago 0
Goal Scorer
Bertie Pedro 13th min