Football

The winner of Sunday’s New Building Society (NBS) limited overs cricket competition will be either Tamran Root or Young Warriors after the latter team  completed a comfortable eight wicket win over Hopetown United in the second semi-final recently.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Manchester City  striker Carlos Tevez completed a remarkable U-turn yesterday when he committed his future to the club a week after handing in  a written transfer request.

Tonight the Kashif and Shanghai Tournament continues and title dreams will continue to be dashed.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Cameroon and Inter Milan striker  Samuel Eto’o set a new landmark for individual success in  African football yesterday after being named the continent’s  Footballer of the Year for a record-breaking fourth time.

Four more teams will have their Kashif and Shanghai title hopes shattered tonight when the 21st annual knockout tournament continues with two double headers at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) and Blairmont Community Centre (BCC) Grounds.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s sporting weekend was decimated by heavy snow and sub-zero temperatures with today’s Premier League showdown between Chelsea and Manchester United among the hundreds of fixtures to be called off.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Caribbean football strongman Jack Warner says he will urge FIFA to add the Digicel Caribbean Cup to its international calendar.

Guyana’s Under-17 footballers suffered a humiliating 7-0 defeat at the hands of regional powerhouse Haiti yesterday in their second round Caribbean Football Union (CFU) World Cup preliminary match played in the Dominican Republic.

National midfielder Shawn `Bubbly’  Beveney was on  target for his club when the Trinidad an Tobago  Digicel Pro League resumed Tuesday night after a two-week break for the Digicel Caribbean Cup Finals which ended in Martinique on Sunday.

The current inclement weather is affecting the preparation of many of the teams that will be competing in the Kashif & Shanghai football tournament but their coaches are taking solace in the fact that all teams will be entering the competition on an even keel.

King’s Jewellery World once again granted a request of the Kashif and Shanghai Organization when it manufactured rings to honour Guyana’s football stalwarts Collie ‘Hitman’ Hercules and Charles ‘Lilly’ Pollard.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Shawn Beveney of Guyana and veteran Vincentian Kendall Velox were both on target for their respective clubs when the Trinidad and Tobago Pro League resumed on Tuesday night, following a two-week break for the Digicel Caribbean Cup Finals which ended in Martinique on Sunday.

Western Tigers vice captain and goalkeeper Derrick Carter says that the younger players in the team are quick learners and they understand their role in the defence of their Kashif & Shanghai title.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter has  rejected allegations of corruption at soccer’s governing body  after Russia and Qatar won the right to host the 2018 and 2022  World Cups, calling England “bad losers” for their reaction.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Football mogul Jack Warner gave the strongest hint yet that Trinidad and Tobago head coach Russell Latapy could be axed, when he said this week that coaches needed to secure positive results in order to preserve their jobs.

Five Trinidad & Tobago-based Guyanese players have been named in a 20-man Guyana All Star squad that will play Brazil’s Athletico Roraima in the feature game of the opening night for the 21st Kashif & Shanghai football tournament on December 12.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean and world football mogul Jack Warner said yesterday England’s 2018 World Cup bid had been undermined by British media allegations of corruption inside FIFA.

Western Tigers are enthusiastic about being in the 21st Kashif and Shanghai tournament, according to coach Kavin Pearce, who says that working with the tournament’s defending champions is a plus since they are a talented bunch.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France players involved in this  year’s World Cup farce should get lifetime bans, UEFA president  Michel Platini said yesterday.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport’s Inter-Block Football Tournament for Grove and Timehri ended last week and organisers of the sub-associations are calling on the business community for support.