GFF Grassroots Festival aimed at finding new talent

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) on Wednesday launched their Grassroots Festival which is aimed at unearthing new talents in the country’s nine football associations.
Speaking at the launch which was held at the federation’s secretariat, Technical Director Ian Greenwood explained that “the idea of the festival is to design a brand new programme for kids 5 to 12 years old since what we want is to get new boys and girls players into federation’s system.”
The kids are expected to be thought the fundamentals of the game, dribbling techniques, passing techniques among other football concepts. The Englishman is hopeful that he can empower the various associations so that they can take up the mantle and be in their respective programmes.
Greenwood explained that this is a long term goal of the federation to get talents from young age and place them into academies with the aim of them donning national colours in the next five to ten years and also being a part of the Elite League system.
The Technical Director also explained that though funding is an issue for the federation, they will be seeking to give the youth players more international experience at the various international age group tournaments.
Meanwhile, Technical Development Officer Lindon France explained that they are formulating plans to get players from interior locations but will need the support of government to help fund them to have them housed and schooled so that they can be linked with city clubs.
The long term of goal of the project is to create leagues at the under-13, under-15, under-19 level for boys and under-15 for girls to run nationwide.