The introduction of lights at the Providence facility would solve any venue woes, especially in the rainy season
According to a social media post by the Federation, work has begun at the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) National Training Center (NTC), East Bank Demerara (EBD), to install FIFA standard floodlights at the astro-turf facility.
Back in May, it was first revealed that the project would be rolled out over the subsequent 6 months to the tune of US$1.1M, fully funded by the FIFA Forward project.
Fast forward five months and the four poles for the game- changing project have been offloaded at the NTC venue at Providence this week.
The Light poles that will soon be installed at the GFF’s NTC
The project will be executed by US-based lighting company ‘Musco Sport Lighting’, and is expected to include an energy-efficient floodlighting structure designed to produce the appropriate lighting quality and standards for international matches, and to withstand a wind speed of 85 mph.
Another part of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Forward project, the astroturf facility, was first commissioned back in 2019, and has been utilised by the local Federation for trainings, tournaments, youth team camps, and hosting foreign youth teams.
Most recently, the facility was utilised, with artificial lighting, to host the GFF/KFC Elite League season five, when the rainy season had inundated other grounds around the country. While the artificial lighting had posed initial challenges, the soon-to-be-introduced FIFA Standard floodlights are expected to maximise the use of the Providence facility, especially in the rainy May/June and December seasons.
