Indoor 5-A-Side Football Youth Club Tournament

21st March 2009

An indoor 5-A-side football Youth Club tournament last Saturday organised by Keiss Baptist Church Youth Club came to a dramatic conclusion with a 'Golden Goal' play-off to decide the winner.

Primary school age teams from Keiss, Wick and Canisbay Youth clubs competed in the tournament which was played at the Wick High School Games Hall. The tournament was played in a league format with each team playing each other once. In the last game Keiss scored with virtually the last kick of the game to beat Wick 'A' 2 - 1 and force a 3 way play off between Keiss, Wick 'A' and Wick 'B' who were all tied on the same points.

The 3 teams played each other once with a 'Golden Goal' format, i.e. the first goal scored in normal time would win the game. The tournament came to an exciting and dramatic conclusion in the last game between Keiss and Wick 'A' with Liam Niness scoring the 'Golden Goal' to win the game and the tournament for Keiss. Liam Niness also won the overall 'Player of the Tournament' trophy which was decided between all the coaches and the referee. There was some good football played with great goals and some excellent goalkeeping on display.

Everyone that took part in the tournament received a copy of 'The Marvin Andrews Story' DVD, which tells the story of ex-Glasgow Rangers player's football career and faith in Jesus Christ. Marvin visited Keiss, Canisbay and Wick and helped out at various events in 2006 and 2007 at the request of Keiss Baptist Church Youth Club and has kept in contact since then via his church in Kirkcaldy. The DVD's were sent north by his church for the tournament. Marvin is currently playing with Raith Rovers and hoping to play his 100th international game for Trinidad and Tobago against either Honduras or the USA in the upcoming World Cup qualifiers.

Report by Kenny Cormack