Former St Mary's College standout midfielder Chad "Raul" Appoo scored the most goals and was awarded the Most Valuable Player for Bago Sports Beach Soccer Club, which won the Goodwill Beach Soccer Series, at the Christianburg Community Centre, Guyana, over the weekend. The technically brilliant Appoo helped, Bago Sports to two wins against Guyana's National Beach Soccer team, the "Red Jaguars", 6-5 and 6-5, in a three match series, on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday, Bago Sports lost its only match, 7-3, after already securing victory.
The team was led by the only FIFA Beach Soccer certified coach in T&T, Dane Bernard and was captained by former national defender Makan Hislop. It otherwise comprises of players, Victor Thomas, Lewis Forde, Jerome Dickinson, Shallum Bobb, Rodney Nelson, Stevon Stoute, Andre Reid and Gregory Simpson. The team will take to the North American Sand Soccer Championship (NASSC) from June 8-10, in Virginia Beach, USA. It is the only Caribbean team which has been invited to the massive event, that boasts of more than nine hundred teams.