Football is already looking promising this year-end, as the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) have announced three tournaments to be staged in and around the Christmas season.
GFF President, Wayne Forde
As if that were not enough to appease them, local football fans will now have the opportunity to witness some of Guyana’s biggest clubs vying for a spot in the Super 16 Cup, which is being hosted in collaboration with the Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) Organisation.
This was announced by GFF President Wayne Forde, who shared that the Elite League teams will have to go back to the Regional Member Association level in order to qualify for the event.
“What we’re going to be doing that year is that all of the Elite League clubs will be migrating back to the Associations from which they came, and they will be part of the qualification,” the GFF President shared.
He went on to explain, “The reason for making that decision is because the truth of the matter is that no-one has been playing any sort of football, so there isn’t any club that can claim they have any particular advantage, no-one has had any meaningful leg hours,”
Advancing another reason why this decision was taken by the Federation and organizers Kashif and Shanghai, Forde opined that it would add some exciting value to the tournament. He said, “We believe it would add an element of excitement if those big clubs, like the GDF, the Conquerors, have to go right back in Georgetown and fight their way through.
“It would be interest to see if the Elite League clubs will be able to fight themselves out of the qualifier,” he later added.
Also, on the topic of the Elite League clubs, Forde revealed that the Federation’s ‘Vaccination push’ has been well received thus far. “10 elite league clubs have received notification of our vaccination push almost 6 weeks ago, because we were hoping to do some preliminary friendly matches among those clubs in preparation for the league, not knowing what will happen in 2021,” Forde informed.
He added, “So far, we have positive response from 9 of the 10 clubs. Everything, of course, is time sensitive, so we’re hoping the vaccination initiative is really taken on board by our members, and we can get this going.”
There are no fixed dates as yet for the year end events.
