Former national striker Roger Alphonso will be in action tonight at the Georgetown Football Club ground when the popular Masters Football Classic known as the Rastas versus Baldhead football series continues.
Alphonso made the national football team while in his teens before landing a scholarship to Clemson University one of three brothers to do so.
He will spearhead the Rastas side which will also include former national captain and another Clemson scholarship awardee Gordon `The Ultimate Warrior’ Braithwaite.
Four of Alphonso’s sidekicks in Senegalese Moussa Gueye, St Lucian brothers Quint and Nick Odlum as well as Mexican Jose Blanco who all reside in California, recently arrived in Guyana to add their combined wit to the Rastas side.
Throw in Lloyd Smith, Hector Forte, Terry Frank, Neville “Natty” Wiltshire, Derek Gritten, Floyd Campbell, Aubrey Adams, Leon Gordon, Terry Plummer, Junior Morgan and Allan La Rose and the Rastas seem to be a formidable unit.
The Baldheads too have decided to strengthen their team with the addition of an overseas player and former national Ossie Taylor will join forces with past nationals Marlon DeSouza, Adrian Forde, Ewart Grenville and Phillip Carrington.
The rest of the team will include Royston Erskine, Dennis `Chow’ Hunte, Peter Lashley, Kurt Alphonso, Eon Wills, Frank `English’ Parris, Shawn Nedd and Bill Wilson.
Tonight’s game will kick off at 19:00hrs and admission is free to children, ladies, and males over-50 years.
