Kingston, Jamaica – The Institute of Sports, on Friday, kicked off its football festival for primary school 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 hereon.
Kingston, Jamaica – The Institute of Sports, on Friday, kicked off its football festival for primary school 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 hereon.
Matches are 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 today, there were double victories for St John’s, Marlie Mount and McAuley.
See complete results below.
ABBREVIATED RESULTS:
St John’s 4 – 1 Horizon Park
McAuley 6 – 1 Planters
Marlie Mount 2 – 0 Mount Moreland
Old Harbour Bay 3 – 0 Point Hill
Homestead 0 – 0 Ensom City
Simon 1 – 1 Barton
Tredegar Park 0 – 4 Marlie Mount
McAuley 2 – 0 Homestead
St John’s 5 – 0 Simon
Ensom 3 – 1 Planters
Tredegar Park 2 – 0 Mount Moreland
The competition continues on Friday, February 7, 2014 at the Jamaica Broilers Sport Complex.
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