00:00Vesni taking on Princestown in green and white in the final of the South Intercol reunion
00:06match.
00:07The final of the 10-team competition took place at the Mahica Oval.
00:11Eldorado Secondary was the only team involved via invitation.
00:15Both teams boasted of players that graced the national team and participated at the
00:20club level, as seen here with footage and interviews done by CCN TV6's Rondell Renwick,
00:25who is also a goalkeeper and a coach.
00:28Organisers of the tournament, Libyan McGregor and former national player Andre Tuse, shed
00:33some light on the initiative.
00:34As you guys would know, we came here to Mahica Oval three years ago.
00:39Since then we have seen a significant increase in the players, teams.
00:44Actually this year we have a guest team that came from East Eldorado Senior Comprehensive.
00:48It's a family-oriented event.
00:51It's definitely centred around football, but I think the heart of it is the reunion aspect
00:56of it.
00:57It's people that you haven't seen in 10, 15, 20 years and it's always a welcoming
01:02feel to play with.
01:03And I feel people like Andre Tuse, Vijay Samaru, Kendall Nick Davis, Lee-Anne Poulis-Brung,
01:08players that were really, really awesome in our era.
01:11So that's pretty much it there.
01:13Well, the preparation was simple because most of us are friends with all the teams and the
01:19connection we have with most of the players from South and, well, as you see, we are guest
01:24teams.
01:26It's like brothers.
01:27We are like family.
01:28So the preparation wasn't all that.
01:29It's just that we have more people in the ground now preparing for the event because
01:36we live abroad.
01:38So to me, it was a little tough in certain places, but the preparation went through good.
01:44MP for Point 14, Kennedy Richard, shared his thoughts on the event.
01:47It's very refreshing to have something like this in Point 14, I'll tell you why.
01:52Point 14 has always been sport and culture, football in particular.
01:56You know about all the greats that have come from Point 14, you know about all the greats
02:00that have come from Mahika.
02:01And what I'm seeing here today is the entire Southwestern Peninsula, South, and all the
02:07inter-culture teams here represented.
02:09The respective teams were placed into two groups of five with the top team from each
02:12group qualifying for the finals.
02:15After full time, the score was nil-nil and it went to penalties.
02:19Goalkeeper Davidson Hector was on point for Vercini as he denied Princeton on two occasions.
02:24Former W Connection standout Andre Pacheco saw his attempt denied.
02:29Former national player Hewton Hector was on target though, and he put some confidence
02:33in the Vercini team as they went on to score all their remaining attempts.
02:37They would eventually win the final on penalties.
02:46Davidson Hector would get the Player of the Tournament award for his skills between the
02:50uprights as Vercini take the South Inter-Culture Reunion title.
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