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GUYANA CHRONICLE Tuesday April 8, 2014
Former national football coach August `Cha Cha’ Wooter succumbs after car accident
FORMER national football coach August `Cha Cha’ Wooter of Suriname died last Friday in Paramaribo, Suriname, from injuries he sustained while holidaying in Guyana about six months ago. Speaking to Chronicle Sport via telephone yesterday, one of the former national coach’s prodigies, Lennox `Cross Eye’ Arthur, said that Wooter was in Guyana about six months ago on vacation and was involved in a motor vehicle accident “and apparently he suffered an injury to the head”. Arthur, a former national football coach himself, said on Wooter’s return to neighbouring Suriname, he - the head coach of the national youth team from 1967 to 1970 - complained of feeling unwell and was taken to the hospital in Paramaribo, Suriname but succumbed.. Arthur, who was a member of the 1967 national Under-17 team at the time, said
August Cha Cha’ Wooter stands at extreme left in this 1967 photo. Others in photo are: (standing) Donald `Casa’ Neblett, Julian Fernandes, Michael Pierre, Clyde `Farmer’ Brown, Andra Fields, Richard Clark, David Woolford and Terry Camacho. Stooping from left are Eric Phillips, Arthur, George Mitchell, Michael Hampden, Kenny Dyer, Dennis Humphrey, George Powdar and Jimmy Fung.
Wooter also had coaching stints in Suriname, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago. “He was a very experienced and knowledgeable coach, one who trained (physical) and coached the team himself,” Arthur stated, adding “he lifted the standard of Guyana’s football then. He was very good at physical preparation and was also a tactician”. Among the many local clubs he shared his expertise with are: Santos, Pele, Thomas United and the Georgetown Football Club. Players, namely Arthur, Michael Pierre, Earl O’Neil Donald `Casa’ Neblett, Julian Fernandes, Clyde `Farmer’ Brown, Woolley Forde, George Mitchell and Michael Hampden are some of whom have represented Guyana at the national level. Arthur has expressed his condolences to the family and relatives of Wooter who will be buried on Friday in Suriname.
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Riddim Squad, Santos, Buxton, Silver Shattas and GDF register victories
RIDDIM Squad, Santos, Buxton United, Silver Shattas and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) football teams all registered victories when the Guyana Football Federation/Banks Beer National Premier League continued on Sunday at different venues. Playing at the #5 ground, West Coast Berbice, Riddim Squad defeated Rosignol United by a 3-0 margin with the winning goals coming off the boots Jermaine Liverpool in the 50th minute and Amos Ramsay in the 73rd and 75th minutes. At the same venue, Santos beat New Amsterdam United 2-0 through a double from Jermaine Fraser in the 13th and 57th minutes. At the Buxton Community Centre ground, East Coast
Demerara, the home side beat Mahaica Determinators 2-0. Tyrone Harper and Aloysius Edwards netted the winning goals in the 27th and 55th minutes respectively. Also at the Buxton ground, Silver Shattas edged Grove Hi-Tech 1-0 through a Colwyn David goal in the 11th minute. Playing at the Guyana Defence Force ground, the homesters thrashed BV/Triumph 5-0. Dexford Williams led the way with a brace in the 53rd and 80th minutes, while Delroy Fraser, Tyson Carmichael and Selwyn Isaacs chipped in with one each in the 5th, 23rd and 87th minutes respectively. The win for the soldiers takes them to 34 points in the standing and are currently placed second after 15
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matches. BV/Triumph are 14th in the points standing with 14 points from as many games.
Riddim Squad are on 19 points from 15 games and currently placed 15th in the standing while Santos have 17 points
from 15 games and are placed 10th. Buxton United occupy the fourth spot in the stand-
ing with 29 points from 15 games and Silver Shattas are 11th with 16 points from 13 matches.
Indians dominate ICC Team-of-the-World Twenty20 MUMBAI, India (Reuters) Paceman Lasith Malinga was the only member of Sri Lanka’s World Twenty20-winning side to earn a place in the International Cricket Council (ICC) team of the tournament, as vanquished Indian players dominated the selection. Sri Lanka broke a finals-losing jinx to lift a maiden World Twenty20 title on Sunday with a comfortable six-wicket victory over 2007 champions India. However, only the blondmopped Malinga, who led the side after Dinesh Chandimal opted to keep himself out of the starting lineup,
Virat Kohli made the ICC team named yesterday. Four Indian players made the side, captained by wicketkeeper-batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni, with two from South Africa and West Indies, and one representative each from Australia and the Neth-
erlands besides champions Sri Lanka. “It was a very difficult task for the panel to pick a team of 11 from the exciting players who featured in this tournament,” former Australia batsman David Boon, the chairman of the ICC selection panel, said in a statement. “As the selection criteria for the team of the tournament are the performances of players in the conditions during the ICC World Twenty20 2014, some of the best players in world cricket had to be left out of the team. “Bowlers, in particular, performed strongly through-
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out this tournament and the side we have selected includes three of the most impressive bowlers in Dale Steyn, Samuel Badree and Lasith Malinga.” Team: Rohit Sharma (India), Stephan Myburgh (Netherlands), Virat Kohli (India), JP Duminy (South Africa), Glenn Maxwell (Australia), MS Dhoni (India captain), Darren Sammy (West Indies), Ravichandran Ashwin (India), Dale Steyn (South Africa), Samuel Badree (West Indies), Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka). 12th player: Krishmar Santokie (West Indies).
St George’s demolish New Campbellville Secondary
ST GEORGE’S Secondary, led by an Orin Forde hat-trick, mauled New Campbellville 5-1 when the Under-15 male edition of the Guyana Sports Development Foundation (GSDF) Pepsi/Scotiabank football tourney continued at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue last Sunday. Following Joshua Williams’ 24th minute opener,
Forde opened his account two minutes later through a powerful strike to the bottom right corner of the net and increased it to two goals for himself and three for the team, through a lob from 40 yards out - celebrating emphatically when the ball sailed over the custodian’s head and nestled into the back of the net. Marlon Bethel pulled one
back for New Campbellville in the 37th minute through a right-sided strike to the left side of the goal. However, Forde completed his hat-trick three minutes later, netting from a right-sided corner kick which settled into the back of the net after failing to make contact with any player within the penalty box. Melvin Smartt then com-
pleted the win as he found the back of the net in the 47th minute compliments of a strike to the left-hand side of the net. In the earlier matchups of the day in the same division, Christ Church and Bishops’ High played to a nil-all draw and Queen’s College earned a walkover victory from Chase Academy, who failed to show up for their fixture.