THE Institute of Sports, (INSPORTS) last week kicked off its football festival for primary schools in St Catherine, featuring 16 teams.
Teams are placed into four zones of four with the top two advancing to the quarter-finals where only the winners advance thereafter.
Matches will be played every Friday at the Jamaica Broilers Sport Complex in Spring Village, while the final is set for February 14.
The top teams will receive medals and trophies.
The competition has been significantly scaled back due to a lack of sponsorship, but the agency remains adamant in the execution of its mandate of developing sport and healthy lifestyle practices at the grassroots.
All general rules apply for this age group except that matches are played for 20 minutes per half, so as to reflect its ‘festival nature’.
The competing teams are Friendship, Point Hill, Old Harbour Bay, Eltham, St John’s, Horizon Park, Barton, Simon, McAuley, Planters, Ensom City, Homestead, Marlie Mount, Tredegar Park, Mount Moreland and Spring Garden.
In matches played last week, St John’s defeated Horizon Park 4-1; McAuley stopped Planters 6-1; Marlie Mount edged Mount Moreland 2-0; Old Harbour Bay blanked Point Hill 3-0; Homestead and Ensom City ended goalless; Simon and Barton ended 1-1; Tredegar Park lost 0-4 to Marlie Mount; McAuley beat Homestead 2-0; St John’s hammered Simon 5-0; Ensom defeated Planters 3-1; and Tredegar Park stopped Mount Moreland 2-0.
The competition continues this Friday at the Jamaica Broilers Sport Complex.
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INSPORTS kicks off football festival in
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