THERE was a high percentage of passes at last weekend’s FIFA Referees’ Fitness Run despite humid conditions at the Eve Leary ground as the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) prepares to submit nominations for the 2014 FIFA List.

The Fitness run, supervised by MA Fitness Instructors Anson Ambrose and Trevor Beckles, saw a 100 percent pass rate for men’s international officials.
It was Beckles’ first outing as a Fitness Instructor following a training stint in Jamaica last month at the CONCACAF MA Instructors Course.
The successful referees were Sherwin Johnson and Sherwin Moore and assistant referees Dion Inniss, Venton Mars, Trevor Porter and Rollin Tappin.
Guyana’s lone women’s international referee Nicola Joseph was also successful.
There was only one failure in the national men’s referees’ pool while, in the men’s national assistant referees category there were three failures out of nine starters.
The successful referees were Gladwin Johnson, Colin Bowry, Micah Erskine, Delroy Henry, Dwayne Johnson, Christopher Joseph and Roland Persaud.
The assistant referees who completed the course were Vere Watts, Kleon Lindey, Patrick December, Lenval Peart, Keith Roberts, Marwin Layne and Kevin Stephens.
Maurees Skeete and Monica Welcome, the only two women’s national referees to participate were both successful.
Skeete who recently officiated at the CONCACAF Under-15 championships in the Cayman Islands was recommended by CONCACAF Referees Instructors to be shortlisted for the 2014 FIFA list following her outstanding showing.
Meanwhile, the FIFA Referees Assistant Programme (RAP) will take place October 1-5 in Guyana with FIFA Instructor Jamaican Peter Prendergast due to conduct the programme with assistance from local referees/instructors.
At least 25 referees from around the country will benefit from the training.