After three nights of fierce rivalry in the round-robin segment of the Guinness Greatest of the Streets Exhibition Competition, the business end of the tournament kicks off tonight at the National Cultural Centre tarmac.
Tonight’s knockout stage of the tournament will see each of the eight teams fighting to book their places in the semi-final and final on Friday night at the same venue.
Tonight, Alexander Village tackles D’Urban Street at 20:00hrs, Broad Street will take on the unbeaten Albouystown team at 20:45 hrs, West Front Road will face Island All Stars at 21:30 hrs and Back Circle will look to bounce back from their loss against Albouystown on Saturday night when they take on Tiger Bay at 22:15 hrs.
Admission to the event is free. The winner of the competition will take home $200,000 and a trophy while the second place team will receive $100,000, third place $50,000 and fourth place $25,000. The remaining four teams will take home $15,000 each. Admission to each game is free. Team Guyana (Back Circle) is using the five-night exhibition tournament as a warm-up for the lucrative Caribbean Street Football Challenge which commences on June 21 on the National Park tarmac.
Team Guyana (Back Circle), which won the last Guinness Greatest of the Streets Football competition, will tackle other winners of the same tournament from Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, St Lucia, St Vincent and Antigua during the three-night event.
The winner of the Caribbean Street Football Challenge will receive US$4,000, a multi-purpose playing facility and bragging rights as the best street football team in the Caribbean.
After a round-robin preliminary format, the top four teams will qualify for the semi-finals. The winners will do battle in the final game which will be staged on June 23. The first, second and third runners-up will receive US$2,000, US$1,500 and US$1,000 respectively.
