The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) will participate in the second edition of the FIFA Executive Summit scheduled for Lagos, Nigeria on February 20, 2018.
President Wayne Forde will represent the Guyana football fraternity with a
GFF President Wayne Forde
presentation on the impact of the FIFA Forward programme on Guyana’s Football development. The presentation will highlight the progress of the Providence Forward programme and the efforts being made by the GFF to align its Governance and compliance policies and strategies with that of FIFA. “For Guyana to be afforded an opportunity to showcase its programmes and strategies at such as global football forum is inded remarkable and humbling. I am very proud of the fraternity and the progress we have made as a Federation in the implementation of a solid development strategy, which has spawned this opportunity. This truly is a proud moment for the football
family,” Forde said in an invited comment before departure. According to a FIFA correspondence, among the key topics for discussion, as proposed by the Member Associations are: FIFA Forward Programme – Looking ahead to the next cycle; The Future of FIFA’s Youth, Women’s and Club Competitions; How to Improve the Transfer
System and The International Match Calendar and FIFA’s Priorities. There will also be small
group discussions “to give Member Associations an optimal platform to make their voice and ideas heard on FIFA’s strategic topics, which will shape the future of both FIFA as an organisation and football as a Sport.” The summit, aimed at strengthening dialogue / bridging the gap between FIFA and its Member
Associations, will be attended by FIFA’s President, Gianni Infantino; FIFA Council members, the FIFA Secretary General and representatives of the FIFA administration and Presidents General Secretaries from Member Associations.
This is the second occasion that President Forde will be presenting Guyana’s Development
Strategy to the football world, the first being the youth development strategy at the XXXII
Ordinary CONCACAF Congress held in Aruba in 2016. (GFF Media)
