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Apr 26, 2016 Sports
They Mayor’s Cup Football tournament is set to start on May1, that’s Sunday, at the Victoria Ground
on the East Coast of Demerara with a doubleheader. That will kick off a tournament that has run for 22 years under the guidance of former national player and coach Lennox Arthur.
This year the tournament is being coincided with the country’s 50th Anniversary Jubilee celebrations.
Teams have been preparing and are ready for the impending contests. Despite the tournament being scaled back from its originally planned 32 teams to its current 20, the competition promises to be fierce.
Sunday’s play kick-off at the Victoria Ground with an East Coast versus Linden match up as Mahaica of the East Coast face Eagles United of Linden to be followed by home side Victoria Kings playing Milerock, another Linden team.
Action continues Monday May 2 at the same venue with Golden Grove versus Grove Hi Tech of the East Bank Demerara, while in the nightcap Ann’s Grove go against fellow East Coast team Buxton Bakewell.
Action moves to the Den Amstel ground on the West of Demerara on Thursday May 5 with Uitvlugt versus Herstelling and Pouderoyen against Kuru Kururu.
Friday May 6 will see Eagles playing Agricola, then Den Amstel challenge Soesdyke at the Den Amstel ground.
The other playing dates are Saturday May 7 at Victoria, Sunday May 8 at GFC, Friday May 13 at Den Amstel, Monday May 16 at GFC, Friday May 20, Saturday May 21, Wednesday May 25 and Sunday June 5 all at the GFC ground.
As indicated the tournament concludes on June 5 at the GFC. Several changes had to be made to the original fixtures.
While being optimistic, Arthur had earlier stated that due to the lack of sponsorship he was forced to reduce the number of teams participating and the prize money. The prizes will now stand at $700,000, $300,000, $200,000 and $100,000 for the top four finishers.
The prizes were reduced from the original $1,000,000, $500,000, $300,000 and $200,000 respectively for the first to fourth place finishers.
Arthur is still hopeful of sponsorship and is encouraging potential sponsors to come on board in the short time left. Interested persons or Companies can contact the Coordinator on telephone 626-9351.
He expressed gratitude to a few who have supported in the past and presently. Among those that have pledged support are Banks DIH, Cummings Electrical, TCL (Mark Bender), Clinton Urling and German’s Restaurant and Muneshwar’s. The Government of Guyana is also on board.
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