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Milo 18 and Under Schools Football Competition…Fight for final berth today
-Parents, guardians, scouts, fans urged to attend
By Rawle Welch
After weeks of action over the weekends, the Milo 18 and Under Schools Football Competition is in the homestretch and heading for the finish line.
Part of the action in this year’s Milo 18 and Under Schools Football Competition.
Today, at the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue, the semi-finals will be played featuring Morgan Learning Centre versus Masters Academy and Chase Academy vs. Sir Leon Lessons, starting at 17:00hrs.
The opening encounter between Morgan’s Learning Centre and Masters Academy should be the perfect precursor for the feature clash.
Morgan’s, a team that usually brings a large number of supporters, are favoured to win this one and advance to the final.
They have a cadre of outstanding players including the prolific David Coates, Osafo Matheson, Chris Macey, Adrian Adolph, Daniel Clarke and Orin Moore and they should prove to be too much of a handful for Masters Academy to contain.
However, Masters Academy, not known as a high scoring team will rely on defence and a swift counter-attack to bolster their chances of winning and the two players who will most likely be the spearhead of their quest for victory are the in-form Calvin Peters and Akeem Giddings.
The feature between defending champion Chase Academy and Sir Leon Lessons is a football fan’s dream matchup and fireworks are expected to fly in this one.
No doubt, the champs will be heavily favoured to advance to the championship round, but Sir Leon Lessons have been waiting one whole year for this game and could be fired up for the engagement.
Chase Academy is loaded with an abundance of young talent, most of who have already been playing at the First Division and Elite levels and clearly has the superior element of experience.
Reshawn Ritch, Job Caesar, Nicholas McArthur, Jeremy Garrett, Malachi Adonis, Rondell Peters and Ryan Hackett are the key players in their lineup, all of who are in magnificent goal-scoring form so it will be a difficult ask for Sir Leon Lessons backline to contain them throughout the duration of the match.
Sir Leon Lessons on the other hand, have been a bit inconsistent and only survived to this stage through a heart-stopping penalty shootout against a determined Bishop’s High unit.
However, Omari James, Tyrese Forde, Richard Rayside and Adrain Aaron are all players with rich talent and they will not want to be embarrassed so on determination alone they are expected to put up a good fight.
The race to play in the final is truly on this afternoon and fans, scouts, parents and guardians are being asked not to miss the action.
Winner of the tourney will collect $500,000 towards a school project and the championship trophy, while the second, third and fourth placed sides will receive $300,000,$200,000 and $100,000 respectively towards a similar endeavour and trophies.
The event is also being held in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health.
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