Courtesy: Daily Express


Mayor's Futsal Cup on Feb 13

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Kota Kinabalu: City Hall is organising the 3rd Mayor's Futsal Cup Championship, which would be held on February 13 at the KK Futsal Arena here, this year.

The Championship would be held in conjunction with the 10th City Day celebration and are among other programmes City Hall has organised for the anniversary celebration.

According to its organising chairman, Alijus Sipil, City Hall is targeting more teams to take part, this year than previously.

"Due to the popularity of the game, City Hall is targeting more teams this year than last year. We anticipate this to be a hit event among those who play the game.

"We call on all teams to register for this tournament to win our fabulous cash prizes. Our target is to have 40 teams taking part.

Last year there were 30," said Alijus.

He also said that teams this year would be allowed to have only two former state or former national players on their squad, while current state or national players are not allowed to play for any team. A total of RM9,600 worth of prizes will be given away.

The winner of the championship will receive RM2,000 and runner-up will get RM1,500, while third and fourth placed teams will receive RM1,000 and RM800 respectively.

There will also be prizes for losing teams in the plate event. The winner in this category will receive RM1,500 and runner-up RM1,000, while third and fourth placed teams will receive RM800 and RM500 respectively.

An additional cash prize of RM500 will await the winner of the Challenge Trophy event where the winner of the main pool will play against the winner of the loser's pool for the overall winner's title.

Registration will close on February 8. Those interested to join can get entry forms from City Hall or KK Futsal Arena. Registration fee per team is RM250.

For more information please call City Hall at 088-521864 and look for Taiming Susun (013-8813373) or Rosla Saaban (016-8173780) or call KK Futsal Arena at 088-249002 and look for Ferdah Maing.


Posted by Luca Ranocchiari --> luca.ranocchiari@futsalplanet.com