Saturday, January 10, 2015 | 4:18 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s best street footballers are expected to heed the call to battle when the Guinness Street Football Challenge kicks off in February 2015. Teams from across the country will vie for the chance to become national champions and represent the country at the regional finals to be held in Jamaica in June.
Teams will play on a knock-out basis until a parish champion is crowned. From there the respective parish champions will face each other on the weekend of June 13 to determine which will emerge national champions.
Jamaica’s champion team will pit its skills against the Caribbean’s best teams in the Regional Finals set to take place on the weekend of June 20 at a venue to be announced. In last year’s tournament held in Trinidad, teams battled for a winner’s prize of US$4,000 cash and bragging rights. “This is the premier street football tournament of the Caribbean and in true Guinness style our consumers who are Made of More strive to be more than spectators, they live to play the game. They play for the pride of their community, the pride of their country, the pride of the Caribbean,” said Andrew Anguin, Acting Brand Manager at Guinness.
The Guinness Street Football Challenge is in its fourth year but will be played in Jamaica for the very first time. Jamaica’s champion team will face about nine other opponents from other Caribbean nations including Trinidad, Barbados, Guyana, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Antigua/Barbuda, St. Kitts, Dominica and newcomers Haiti.
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Guinness Street Football to kick off in February
