Richardson, Junor highlight ‘understanding’ in IGG futsal win

Legendary Golden Jaguars forward Gregory “Jackie Chan” Richardson and renowned player Jermin “Pankey” Junor pulled off a first over the past weekend, coaching Guyana’s futsal team to an overall win at the 2025 Inter-Guiana Games (IGG).
With futsal a discipline that Guyana struggled in during the last two editions of the tournament, the inclusion of the renowned coaches and Team Manager Randy King clearly did the trick this time around.
In an interview with <<<Guyana Times Sport>>>, after receiving their gold medal, Richardson and Junor both discussed the preparation work they were able to execute with the team.
“Well, it was a lot of work. First of all, we want to big up the Guyana Football Federation; National Sports Commission; Ministry of Youth, Culture and Sport for putting together some initiatives long before this tournament. So, that made it easy on the coaches to put together a team to come and compete in these games,” Junor shared.

Richardson added, “Yeah, I also wanna thank the GFF and the Sports Minister. We put together the right team for this tournament this time and ya’ll will see, next year we’ll put together a good team again for the next tournament and we’re going to be strong in futsal from now on.”
Quizzed on the key aspects that they tried to pass on to the youngsters, both Coaches agreed on ‘understanding the game’ being a major takeaway.
Richardson divulged, “Some of the things I tried to pass on to the guys: understanding the game. Understanding how futsal is played from field football, it’s a different game, it’s more faster, more intense. So, that’s what I try to teach them and they adapt quick.”
Junor further elaborated, “As you know, we’ve been playing futsal for a long while for Sparta Boss and it’s one of the most dominant teams in the country, in terms of futsal. So, basically, we teach the fellas the understanding of the game. Once you know, once you understand the game, it’s going to be easier to play it and it was a good group. They listened to us, put in the work and we came out with the gold medal for the first time. It’s a historical something that we pull off.”
Chiming in on the importance of the futsal version of the game, Junor agreed that it can help in their field football development.
“It’s a more intense game, like Coach said, it’s a more quick-thinking game. So, basically, once you understand futsal, you could make it in any football,” Junor explained.
Guyana drew 6-6 with French Guiana on Saturday before turning it around to pull off a 6-4 win against Suriname to clinch the gold medal.