GFC celebrate Copa Airlines sponsorship with double header
–Brazilian nationals looking for another victory
Georgetown Football Club has created history to become the first local football club to have an international airline sponsorship. This was disclosed by the club’s General Manager Faizal Khan during an interview with Guyana Times Sport.
Khan highlighted that the local ‘bourda blues’ as known in the local football futurity has secured the infrastructural deal which will see members of the technical staff, players and executives travelling internationally on football related assignments, courses and meetings which will be covered by Copa Airlines.
Nigerian David Chimda (left) and GFC’s General Manager Faizal Khan during their exclusive interview on RGI’s Sport Vybz with John Ramsingh
Khan noted that the club is now in a better position to seek international players’ tryouts to clubs and to have their technical staff attend qualifying and upgrades to their executional position in football in the club.
Lamenting that presently the club is in a position to see some eight young players upon concluding their Caribbean Secondary Examination Council (CSEC) exams go to clubs in the Caribbean and further afield for tryouts. “The technical staff can now seek to attend courses in development and upgrade in their football career within the club and not worry how this will happen” khan noted.
Not disclosing the full details of the sponsorship he explained that with the present status of operation of the bourda based club, there will be more of a developmental programme at GFC which is dubbed the Mecca of football in Guyana.
The celebration which he passions to be the beginning of a new era in football for the local club will see this Saturday commencing at 17:00h a youth encounter which will showcase boys and girls of the club’s youth programme before kicking off the featured match which will bring together the Brazilian nationals in Guyana against the GFC XI in a return fixture.
Khan said that the Bourda Blues will see the likes of locally based Nigerian and Trinidadian players who will be looking to revenge the southern neighbours and football giants after losing the first encounter 2-1 last December.
David Chimda, a Nigerian medical student studying medicine at the Texila American University in Guyana and plays for the local club is egger to take the field on Saturday evening to represent the local side.
Chimda said that his teammates are awaiting the time for the whistle and will be out to achieve at least a 3-0 win in revenge.
