Pepsi U-17 football final kicks off today at GFC

The final and third place play-off in the Guyana Football Federation/Pepsi inter-association under-17 football tournament will be played today at the GFC ground.

In the first match scheduled for a 10am start, Berbice will come up against Bartica in the third place play-off, while from 3pm, Georgetown will face Upper Demerara for the championship trophy.

The Berbice attack will be spearheaded by Sherlone Edwards who was a member of Guyana’s under-16 team which toured Trinidad and Tobago in last year’s CFU under-16 tournament. He also captained Guyana’s squad at the CFU Under-15 tournament in 2005.

Bartica on the other hand will have in their line-up Dwayne Blake and Sylvester DaSilva who were both members of Guyana’s under-16 team last year as well as the under-15 team in 2005.

Georgetown’s line-up includes Andrew Murray, Manasseh Primo, Frank Dover, Bevon Moseley and Lumumba Hinds, while the Upper Demerara team will feature its stars Kevin Beaton, Clifton Halley, Clive Vickery, Jason Cobena, and Alwyn Adams who captained the Guyana team in the CFU Under-16 tournament in 2006.

The presentation of prizes will be done immediately after the final in the upper pavilion of the GFC.