Football: Standard Chartered 5s tournament on Saturday

The International 5-a-side Football Tournament played for the Standard Chartered Trophy – ‘The Road to Anfield’, leveraging on its sponsorship of Liverpool Football Club, will kick off this Saturday (7) at Campbell Park in Borella.   The kick off time will be 9.30am.   Teams from some leading organisations as well as the Go Forward teams will be in action, and all football enthusiasts are welcome to enjoy a day of soccer and competition.   The team emerging victors will fly to Mumbai to compete against the regional winning teams.   Leading corporate teams such as MAS Intimates, KPMG, MAS Capital, MAS Linea Aqua, MAS Legato, Walkers Tours, WNS, Aitken Spence, Hirdramani, Hemas, SGIT, Courtaulds and Expo as well as teams from Standard Chartered and Go Forward will take part in this tournament.   The match duration will ten minute with only five players allowed to take the field from a team at a time.   Altogether 24 teams which will be split into four groups of six teams each will compete.   Winners of each group will qualify for the semi-finals.   Referees and officials from the Football Federation of Sri Lanka will officiate.   For South Asia regional representation, teams from India and Sri Lanka will participate and vie for the chance to represent South Asia region at the finals to be held in Mumbai on March 1.