Hosts Fruta Conquerors will go into action tomorrow as play in the fourth annual Fruta Conquerors Knockout Football Festival sponsored by the National Milling Company (Namilco) continues at the Tucville playfield under lights.
The host team will square off with BV Football Club of East Coast Demerara in a Group ‘A’ fixture the feature match of a double header.
The first match will bring together Camptown against Mocha Champs of East Bank Demerara at 5.30pm.
The tournament opened last Friday and two Georgetown teams have already been sent packing following defeats in contrasting fashion.
West Demerara side Pouderoyen scored a convincing 5-1 win over Georgetown’s Flamingoes while the Guyana Defence Force scored a 4-1 win over Santos in a penalty shootout after the two teams were deadlocked 2-2 after extra time.
The soldiers took the lead in the 26th minute through Shawn Hector, but Santos equalised in the 70th minute from the boot of Quacy Price.
Delon John sent Santos further into the lead during the first half of extra time and when, it looked as if Santos would pull off the victory, Stellon David netted for the GDF one minute before the final whistle forcing a penalty shoot-out.
The soldiers, as expected, were better marksmen hitting their target four times while Santos converted only once.
Clement Brown scored a hat-trick as Pouderoyen made light work of Flamingoes scoring in the 26th, 70th and 77th minutes of play with Ron Austin and Clevand Walcott scoring the other two goals for the winners. Eion Singh netted for Flamingoes.
GDF will now play the winner of the Pele versus Monedderlust (Berbice) encounter, while Pouderoyen will be up against the winner of the Western Tigers/Rosignol United clash.
Before the start of the tournament there was an official opening ceremony attended by top executives of Namilco including its General Manager Bert Sukhai and Operations Manager Ralf Hemsing who kicked off the ball to start the event.
Fruta Conquerors president Colin Howard and vice president Andrea Ash as well as secretary of the George-ytown Football Association Marlan Cole were also in attendance.
Sixteen teams faced the starter and come tomorrow night with another two teams expected to exit the competition, only 12 teams will remain in the hunt for top honours.
The teams have been divided into two groups with Group ‘A’ comprising Alpha United, Georgetown Football Club, Fruta Conquerors, Camptown, Uprising, Silver Shatters of Linden, Mocha Champs of East Bank Demerara and BV Football Club of East Coast Demerara, while the teams in Group ‘B’ are Rosignol United and Monedderlust, Santos, Flamingoes, Western Tigers, Pele, GDF and Pouderoyen.
The winners will collect $400,000, with the runners-up taking home $200,000, third place $100,000 and fourth place $50,000.
There will be other incentive prizes including awards for the most valuable player (MVP), highest goal scorer, best goal keeper and young promising players (2).
The final is set for December 9 at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground.
