… to play Berbice today
LETHEM defeated their counterparts from the East Demerara Football Association 1-0 when the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) Women’s Inter-Association League got under way on Wednesday at the Tucville ground.

Sonia Griffith registered the competition’s first goal in the 22nd minute but failed to convert many others.

The Lethem team, currently in Georgetown for the Amerindian Heritage celebrations, will be in action once again today at the same venue where they take on Berbice from 16:00 h.

In Wednesday’s match, the team from the hinterland dominated play for most of the 90 minutes duration and displayed better ball control than their East Coast counterparts.

So dominant were the Lethem players that they forced eight corners during the first session and four in the second half as against a mere one during the entire game by the East Coast side.

From the first whistle, Lethem took the attack to their opponents passing the ball nicely through empty spaces and putting together five and six passes at a time.

After raiding East Coast’s goal on six occasions, the Lethem team went ahead by counter-attacking down the right flank and the ball was squared to the centre in East Coast’s 18-yard box where Griffith took control and slotted it past the opposition’s custodian Ruth George.

As the battle for ball possession continued, East Coast had a few good moments but found it difficult to get past Lethem’s stout central defender Vowseima Michael who enjoyed a really good game.

So difficult was it to get past Michael that the Lethem custodian Leonie Robinson was only called upon twice throughout the game and on both occasions she displayed maturity.

Robinson was a member of the National women’s team that participated in the triangular tournament played in the Turks and Caicos Islands earlier this year.

After today’s game, the Lethem side will be in action once again on Sunday when they tackle Upper Demerara at the GCC ground from 16:00 h.

Sunday’s game is one on a triple-header card that will feature two GFF Senior League matches.

GFF General Secretary Noel Adonis had said earlier in the week that the idea of having the women’s game played on the same card was to give the local ladies some prominence.

He said also the women’s league is part of his Federation’s development plans for women’s football in Guyana.

During the women’s matches, members of the GFF’s Technical Committee will be talent-spotting in order to select a squad for training for a planned Goodwill series during the month of December right here in Guyana.

Adonis said invitations have been extended to Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago as well as the Guyanese Diaspora in North America.