In the red

Mia Mottley. (FP)

By Ezra Stuart | Fri, December 07, 2012 - 12:13 AM

This year’s LIME Pelican Football Challenge was a financial loss for the organizers.

This disclosure has come from Mia Mottley, who heads Pelican Ventures Inc., the entity behind the just ended September 9 to November 30 tournament, which featured 12 franchises split into two groups.

In an interview with WEEKENDSPORT, the long-serving parliamentarian pointed to the below par attendance this year of under 2 500 paying fans nightly for the majority of group matches, which were all held at Kensington Oval.

While pleased with the crowd for the semi-finals and last Friday’s final between Akademiks and Phoenix UFO Toyota Fire House on Independence Day, Mottley said the increase in numbers only marginally compensated for the high overall cost of staging Barbados’ richest sporting tournament.

Please read the full story in today’s WEEKEND NATION, or in the eNATION edition.

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Posted by Frank Husbands 5 months, 2 weeks ago: The only way to offset this loss, is by allowing people to bet on the games.You can stay here in Barbados and bet on football games played in England.