Vice-chairman of the Barbados Invitational Masters Football Classic’s (BIMFC) organising committee Trevor Thorne, has reiterated his call for more financial support following the conclusion of this year’s tournament on Monday.

Speaking during an interview with Barbados TODAY, Thorne said while the BIMFC remains the Caribbean’s biggest Master’s Football Festival, it is under pressure from rival regional tournaments, some of which are being played at the same time.

“The islands, all of them are picking up on stuff that BIMFC does, and of course they get massive support from their governments. Then let’s say we’re slow in moving in that direction, then there could be a threat of BIMFC being exported and the product even becoming better because it has much more resources to deploy,” Thorne said.