On Saturday Kandy’s Old Sylvester’s Soccer Union held their annual nine-a-side football tournament for their under 12, 14, 16 and 18, teams which was played at their grounds at Asgiriya where sixteen teams were seen in action.
In the under12 event Ivory were number one and second place went to Crown. Then in the under 14 Ivory was number one and Maroon number two then in the under 16 Maroon became number one and Ivory number two, in the under 18 number one was Maroon and number two Blue. Then an exhibition under18 game was played between St. Sylvester’s and St.Anthony’s in which Sylvestrians scored 3 goals against 1.
One of the top class footballers to come out of St. Sylvester’s College Manjula Gunasekara who has given his best for football in coaching and refereeing handled the event as the organizer. He was supported by the 1981 and 2020 batch and according to him old boys like Rukshan Mohamed who is the Soccer Union president Ifthikar Hashim and Kapila Dissanayke gave a helping hand in sponsoring the event.
This was the fifth tournament, and the young up and coming players did well.