GFF soon to fulfill promise of national youth leagues

Dec 23, 2017 Sports, https://www.kaieteurnewsonline...ional-youth-leagues/

The future of the Golden Jaguars, Guyana’s senior men’s football team, is dependent on the development of locally based players and more importantly the youth players. Being cognizant of this fact, the current Guyana Football Federation (GFF) executive committee (Exco) that had made it one of their mandates to develop a solid youth programme during pre-election, are making strides to realize this dream.
The current GFF exco had promised if elected to office that they would’ve oversee the running off of youth leagues in four age groups in the under-13, under-15, under-17 and under-20 age groups. And, now, almost at the end of the 2017, two years after the current exco were elected to office, the organizing of successful under-17 and under-15 national leagues have been unveiled with the sponsors of each of those leagues committing to five-year contracts. In addition, during an interview with Kaieteur Sport, head of the GFF, Wayne Forde, noted that 2018 will see the launching of the critical under-13 and under-20 national leagues.
Currently, the sponsor of the under-17 league is the National Milling Company (NAMILCO), while the Pele Football Club Alumni sponsors the under-15 league. However, Forde didn’t disclose the sponsors of the under-20 and under-13 leagues since negotiations are still undergoing.
Technical Director of the GFF, Ian Greenwood, reiterated the importance of solid youth development programmes and noted with Kaieteur Sport his intention of working with the under-13 squad to have them be the best players Guyana has ever seen. “The current u-13 team put together this year will be the best when they reach the senior level, not only because of the work we will put in with them but we intend to keep the squad together,” Greenwood shared.