3 July 2009
Windhoek — The Ramblers Sports Grounds in Windhoek this weekend will be the scene of this year's Top Score 7-A-Side tournament. There will be eight teams competing for the grand prize of N$10 000 when the festivities kick off at 14h00 on Saturday 4 July.
Excitement was in the air at the tournament's media launch in the capital this week. The eight remaining teams were represented in large numbers with rivalries being renewed off the pitch and fans being promised more fierce ones on it.
This year's road to the finals began with 70 corporate teams trying out their luck at the crown. This weekend, the number is down to eight and before it ends there will only be one team still standing.
The teams still in with a shot at glory and N$10 000 are MTC, Spes Bona, Nedbank, Plascon, Standard Bank, Game, Top Score and Namcor.
MTC and Namcor are being tips are the main contenders to collect the cheque and the trophy, but other teams will be sure to make them sweat for it.
For the first time since the tournament's inception, all final eight teams will receive prize money. The prize money will be as follows: the champion team will receive N$10 000, the runners-up N$6 500, third place N$5 000, fourth place N$3 250, and all losing quarter-finalists N$1 000 each.
Ample entertainment apart from the main showpiece is lined up to keep spectators glued to their seats.
Some of this will include a goal shootout involving some well-known former and current premier league players like Samson John, Ivan Makina, Gerry Geisler, Klaas Blom and Enrique Afrikaner.
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