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| Flow’s brand manager Nasha Douglas (fourth right) hands over the Flow Champions Cup trophy and symbolic cheque to Tivoli Gardens captain Edsel Scott (centre) during the awards presentation at the JFF offices on Monday. JFF Competitions Committee chairman, Michael Ricketts (left); club president Edward Seaga (second left), team manager Brian Rose (right), and players of the team share the occasion. (Photo: Lionel Rookwood) |
NATIONAL and Tivoli Gardens midfielder Keammar Daley was named 'Star Baller' of the 2011 Flow Champions Cup Knockout competition after the curtains came down on the season with the presentation of awards at the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) offices yesterday.
Daley, who scored and was also MVP of the final and currently away with the senior team in Brazil preparing for the CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament, received $300,000 from co-sponsor Red Stripe for winning the award.
St George's SC's Romeo Parkes was voted the competition's MVP and was also the joint-topscorer with Monymusk's Michael Dixon on three goals each.
Parkes collected $70,000 for being the MVP award and $25,000 for the topscorer honours.
Tivoli walked away with the $1 million winning purse, while St George's took home $400,000 for finishing in the runner-up spot.
Tivoli coach Glendon 'Admiral' Bailey was named Coach of the Year.
Meanwhile, a special cheque presentation for $236,000 was made to the Youth Upliftment Through Employment charity.
Flow's brand manager, Nasha Douglas said her company was proud to be associated with the event and is looking to continue its title sponsorship at least through to 2012.
"We thank you all for a wonderful three years and for helping to create in my mind the best knockout football championship on the island," she said.
"I believe as we continue along this journey we will continue to play a significant role in helping to facilitate a renaissance in Jamaican football," Douglas added.
Chairman of the Premier League Clubs Association and the Professional Football Association of Jamaica, Edward Seaga, noted that he was somewhat disappointed that the top-brass of the various sponsoring company were not in attendance at yesterday's function.
"Flow came on last year as the chief sponsor for the competition and demonstrated that they could handle it... and this year they repeated with better funding and once again demonstrated the interest they had in this all-island knockout," he said.
"But when you're building a brand, you must put the top shoe forward and I thought we would have seen the top people from Flow and SportsMax," Seaga argued.
He saved special congratulation for champions Tivoli, of which he is club president.
"The Tivoli team has been enormously successful this year and not only in football, but in basketball and netball," he said, referring to their 'B' League netball and South Conference basketball titles in recent weeks.
"My 'obeah man' has taken us through the league, knockout, basketball and netball and we are putting ourselves in a position to win the national basketball title in the next few weeks," he joked.
JFF Competition's Committee chairman, Michael Ricketts, was also full of praise for the West Kingston community for the way they have rebounded on the field of sports following the military incursion into the community last May.
"And that is why I say congratulations, not only to the club, but to the community as well as this is a part of their therapy for what the community has gone through," he said.
Source: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sports/Tivoli-roll-with-the--Flow--at-KO-awards_8926933#ixzz1OUOGBFeM
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