Mo­ka Boissiere Strik­ers (MB2 Strik­ers) are the cham­pi­ons of the Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion ‘Cham­pi­ons of the Bor­ough Cup’ foot­ball com­pe­ti­tion, which con­clud­ed at the Care­nage Recre­ation Ground on Haig Street, Care­nage on Thurs­day.

MB2 Strik­ers met Pe­tit Val­ley/Co­corite in the fi­nal and emerged with a 2-0 win.

Cap­tain and cen­tre-back of the Strik­ers, Rahim Jarvis, said af­ter the match that, “The tour­na­ment brought his com­mu­ni­ty (Mo­ka/Boissiere) to­geth­er and al­lowed the play­ers to show­case their tal­ents.”

Strik­ers got its open­ing goal from Keeron Ben­i­to, fol­lowed by a penal­ty to seal the ho­n­ours to spur the team in­to cel­e­bra­tion for the team, which proved to be an in­spi­ra­tion for their fans and the com­mu­ni­ty. The cap­tain added that the per­for­mance re­flects the im­por­tance of per­sis­tence, dis­ci­pline, and col­lab­o­ra­tion in achiev­ing goals, and to be cham­pi­ons of the in­au­gur­al Bor­ough Cup is an ho­n­our, and the MB2 Strik­ers have set a high stan­dard for fu­ture teams.

Strik­ers pock­et­ed the win­ning prize of $50,000, while the run­ners-up, Pe­tit Val­ley/Co­corite, col­lect­ed $20,000, and Care­nage Sharks got $15,000 for com­ing out on top 2-0 against Bagatelle/Blue Basin Li­ons in the third-place play­off.

Fol­low­ing the fi­nal night of com­pe­ti­tion, Her Wor­ship The May­or of the Bor­ough, Akeil­i­ah Glas­gow-Warn­er, ex­pressed her heart­felt thanks to every­one who made the Cham­pi­ons of the Bor­ough Cup a re­sound­ing suc­cess on its ini­tial stag­ing. 

The may­or al­so ap­plaud­ed the fans from the 10 dis­tricts that par­tic­i­pat­ed—Pe­tit Val­ley/Co­corite, Mo­ka/Boissiere, Bagatelle/Blue Basin, Morne Co­co/Alyce Glen, Ch­aguara­mas/Pt Cumana, Di­a­mond Vale, Glen­coe/Good­wood/La Puer­ta, St Lu­cien/Cameron Hill, Covi­gne/Rich­plain, and Belle Vue/Boissiere—for their un­wa­ver­ing sup­port and en­thu­si­asm, which brought un­matched en­er­gy to every match, cre­at­ing an at­mos­phere of uni­ty and pas­sion from when the tour­na­ment start­ed on Oc­to­ber 18 to the night of the fi­nal.

 The may­or al­so praised the Sport Youth De­vel­op­ment & Ed­u­ca­tion Com­mit­tee and ad­min­is­tra­tion of the bor­ough that co­or­di­nat­ed the smooth run­ning of the event, to­geth­er with CEPEP for their ef­forts in main­tain­ing the grounds at Care­nage and Mar­aval, which pro­vid­ed the play­ers with a good play­ing sur­face to dis­play their skills dur­ing the tour­na­ments.