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Champions of over-55 football festival, Linden Masters Under the name Guyana Football Association of Masters (GUYFAM), the Masters football fraternity held an over-55s one day festival last Thursday at the GFC ground, where the Linden Masters triumphed over two other competing teams.
On a sunny Youman Nabi holiday, host team RastafarEye Patriarchs lost their 2 matches 0-1 and 0-4 to Club 45 and Linden Masters respectively, while the Championship-decider ended in a 2-all stalemate.
The 40-minute a match Festival was reduced to a triangular competition after Pele Masters failed to muster a team. In the decisive encounter, Christopher King gave Club 45 the early opening lead with a blaster, after breaking through the defense.
The Mining Town Masters replied almost immediately through Gavin Greenidge, before Gregory Griffith hit a powerful right-booter from the top of the box to give Linden the advantage after 15 minutes of pulsating action.
Led by former national midfielder Terrence ‘Old Head’ Lewis, who was here, there and everywhere, Club 45 launched attack after attack before King again broke free to level the score just before the half.
Upped to a sixty-minute affair, the match produced a 2nd half of near misses and solid defending at both ends, and the scoreline was not changed when the final whistle was blown. Linden with a +4 goal difference were crowned Champions over Club 45, who ended with a +1 goal difference.
Captain of the Linden Masters, Garfield ‘Snooker Shepherd, captured the Best Defender and MVP trophies as well as the top goal-scorer trophy, which he jointly shared with Christopher King, their each having 2 goals.
‘Old Head’ Lewis was named the Tournament’s Best Midfielder, while Linden’s Steve Retemiah was awarded the Best Goalkeeper’s trophy and team mate Steve Hector won the oldest player’s trophy, he being 66 years old.
A number of individuals contributed the trophies that were contested for, including Snoops Jewellery of Linden and Golden Smile of the capital city. Three former hockey players also made contributions towards the staging of the festival: Ivor Thompson, Dexter Wyles and Dr. Claude Gooding, as did former Western Tigers player Shawn Thompson.
