The innovative LIME Super Cup is being hailed as a grand spectacle by organisers and sponsors as the inaugural staging of the competition culminated yesterday with Jamaica College walking away with the $1-million cash prize.

It was not all glitter on the final day of the four-week-long competition at Sabina Park as the misbehaving crowd held up the start of the second half of the game which Jamaica College won 2-0 over Holy Trinity High.

Carlo Redwood, vice-president of marketing at title-sponsors LIME, expressed delight at the overall outcome of the final and the overall competition.

“Huge final, huge crowd, great entertainment, and a very competitive game. I think both teams played well… played hard, but obviously JC showing their calibre coming out on top. But overall we are very happy with the day and the quality and execution of the event that we put on today (yesterday),” he told the Jamaica Observer.

Redwood believes that the company outdid itself by organising such an innovative event and he disclosed that, looking forward to next year’s competition, they will be taking into account a few areas that need to be improved, more so crowd control.

“We have areas we could learn from in terms of improving, that a bigger stadium would have been better. But we know next year we are going to have to do that because it’s a huge competition. The crowd that came out to watch the games were certainly bigger than we thought.

“We wanted to make it exciting, we wanted to make it an attractive event for all football fans, not just schoolboy football fans, and I think we were able to achieve that based on the support that we got and we are very happy to be able to crown JC as the first champions of the LIME Super Cup,” he beamed.

He closed by acknowledging the sponsors and partners for their overwhelming support and is optimistic that, with their continued support, the competition will be even stronger next year.

Meanwhile, Mitchell Watson, marketing manager of Pepsi Jamaica, shared the sentiments of Redwood.

“I think next year we should call this the LIME championships. It is really bringing together the best schools from across the country and it has proven itself beyond expectation, and I think it has been a great partnership and we are looking forward to doing it again in 2015,” he said.

Damion Barnett, account manger of Huawei who were partnering with the telecommunications firm, awarded members of the winning team with the latest brands of their phones as well as gift bags to the crowd.

“This has been a great and exciting competition and definitely next year we will be partnering with LIME for this event. This is the sort of community spirit that we really cherish and we want to show the Jamaican people that Huawei is here to stay,” he said.

The competitionm, dubbed the champions league of schoolboy football kicked off in October with the eight best schools from the Manning and daCosta Cup competitions. All 16 teams that qualified for the prestigious competition were awarded cash prizes to assist with the sports development programmes at their schools.