Mayor’s Cup tournament postponed to facilitate Kashif and Shanghai preparations

The Guyana Defence Force will have to wait awhile to have a second crack at the nation’s number one football club Alpha United.

The two teams were set to meet today in a quarter final encounter of the annual Mayor’s Cup seven-a-side tournament.

But executive co-ordinator of the Mayor’s Cup competition Lennox Arthur, told Stabroek Sport last evening that regrettably, he has had to postpone the tournament until the New Year.

According to Arthur, teams have been requesting that the tournament be pushed back to allow them time to prepare for the upcoming 20th Kashif and Shanghai football tournament which commences this week-end.

In a press release sent to this newspaper the organizers of the Mayor’s Cup said that they “regret the inconvenience this situation may cause.”

“The organizing committee for the Mayor of Georgetown Hamilton Green’s 75th birth anniversary seven-a-side football tournament wishes to announce the postponement of the quarter-finals, semi-finals, third placed playoffs and final scheduled for December 8 and 11,” the release stated.

The release added that “the postponed matches will be played on a date to be announced later.”

The Guyana Defence Force football team was chomping at the bit to get at Alpha United after losing to the latter team in the final of the Guyana Football Federation’s Super League tournament recently at the Providence National Stadium.

That match, along with three other quarter final games, Pele against Uprising, Western Tigers against Crane and Conquerors taking on Riddim Squad were scheduled for this evening at the Tucville Playfield.

The winning team is set to receive $300,000 and the Macorp trophy while the losing finalist will receive $100,000 with $60,000 and $40,000 going to the third and fourth placed teams respectively.