THE Guyana Football Federation (GFF) will benefit from approximately $100M, compliments of football World governing body FIFA.

This disclosure was made by GFF president Christopher Matthias who spoke to Chronicle Sport exclusively. Matthias said FIFA’s Development Committee met recently and made a decision to hand out funds to the lesser developed football nations to assist with their development of the sport.
He said the money will be forthcoming after the 2014 Brazil World Cup tournament.
The GFF head also said once his Federation receives the money each of its eight affiliates will receive funding for infrastructural development within their association.
He said each of the eight associations across the country will receive $1M to bolster their bank accounts and each will receive 10 footballs and one set of playing uniforms.
Matthias, who has been the target of allegations by some section of society and also former GFF executives, said he is here for football development and the one year since he has occupied the head seat of the Federation a lot has been done in this direction.
He also said apart from the uniforms, balls and money each association will receive, it is his intention to also provide each of them with one 15-seater minibus so that they can transport their players to matches.
The GFF head said he would also encourage the associations to use the buses to garner an income by transporting passengers in each of their communities and the cash raised from this will go towards the development of their respective associations.
In a recent article in another section of the media, coaches from various clubs in Georgetown, Linden, East Coast and West Coast Demerara were asked to give their opinion on Matthias’ leadership over the one-year period that he has been president, and each of the coaches felt that he has been doing an excellent job, given the in-house cleaning he had to do and the debt he went into office and met.
According to Matthias, when he took over, the GFF had owed about $25M to various businesses and to date that amount has reduced significantly.
One coach said football should be the winner, because it is the players who will suffer.