National Futsal tournament slated for December

WHETHER OR NOT SANTA COMES FOR CHRISTMAS 2021 Guyanese football fans
will relish the Futsal Tournament a brand to be launched nationally assured Culture, Youth and
Sport Minister, Charles Ramson Jr.

“We have already started a futsal tournament since May: one at Agricola, (on the East Bank),
and we will do another in Buxton, (on the East Coast) this coming weekend… we have had much
success from the two locations and we have expectations for a third location. We want to do a
national tournament in December similar to the Kashif and Shanghai tournament which we are
bringing back anyways,” Ramson announced.
The popular and lucrative Kashif and Shanghai tournament was hosted between 1990 and 2015.
The sports minister made the disclosure Sunday when he visited the Den Amstel Community
Centre Ground, in Essequibo Islands/west Demerara (Region Three).
He told the Den Amstel sports enthusiasts his ministry is prepared their efforts in any discipline.
“Now that I know that there are people who are willing to play sport, I can get you whatever gear
that you want to….so whatever gears you need whether it is football, basketball or even cricket
just tell us…once I continue to see or hear that you guys are participating and you are getting
good usage out of what we are trying to do then we will be here every third Sunday as long it
continues,” he promised.

Ramson said some $618M was budgeted in this year’s estimates to host tournaments, maintain
sport facilities and support selected sport associations. He said the Youth and Sport ministry will
focus on creating a path for its sportsmen and women to fulfil their talents.

As such, the sports ministry will back clearing and cleaning the community ground,
among other services which will allow hosting tournaments there every third Sunday,
Ramson said.