FIFA’s Primo Corvaro to preside over GFF Constitutional reform process … Urling plays down political affiliation as an issue
FIFA’s Head of Member Associations, Primo Cavaro
FIFA’s Head of Member Associations, Primo Cavaro

THE Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Normalisation Committee, the first of its kind in the country’s football history, is getting closer to fulfilling one of its mandate set by the sport’s world governing body FIFA. “The GFF reform process started a few weeks ago with the Normalisation Committee inviting all the member associations of the GFF to submit recommendations to the constitution reform process of the GFF statutes,” Clinton Urling, Chairman of the GFF Normalisation Committee told Chronicle Sport yesterday.

According to Urling, a meeting was held on Friday January 30 with the aim to solicit similar views from the GFF’s members and other interested football stakeholders.
Urling said that FIFA’s Head of Member Associations, Primo Corvaro, will facilitate the February 4-5 sessions with the selected Constitutional Reform Committee at the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) Headquarters on High Street in Georgetown.
Though the Normalisation Committee did not name the persons selected by FIFA to help reform Guyana’s football constitution, Chronicle Sport was informed that A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of Parliament and Attorney-at-Law James Bond, president of the GOA and Attorney-at-Law K.A. Juman-Yassin, along with Alexei Ramotar, son of President Donald Ramotar, are among those who will preside over the process.
“The Normalisation Committee and FIFA (who made the final call on all participants) selected the committee members for the two-day engagement.
The members of the committee were all selected based on their professional background and ability to contribute to the process and not based on which Guyana political party they may be affiliated with,” Urling said.
Urling, who himself has a place in Guyana’s political arena, pointed out that “affiliation to a political party does not preclude one from engaging on a professional level.
“However, if that was to be used as a barometer, there are members on the committee who can be identified as supporting all the major political parties. Nevertheless, the entire programme for the two days will be facilitated and managed by FIFA, who will have the final say on the amended document”.

(By Rawle Toney)

 

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