By Rawle Toney

AFTER failing to advance past the group stage of the CONCACAF Olympic Qualifier tournament, Guyana’s female National football team, popularly known as the ‘Lady Jags’ are now eyeing a clash against Argentina in May.Head coach Mark Rodrigues made the revelation after the team’s 5-1 defeat to Trinidad and Tobago at the BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston, Texas when Guyana waved goodbye to the tournament that was eventually won by the USA.
According to Rodrigues, he has already begun preliminary discussions with Argentina to host the match in Guyana as the country celebrates its Golden Jubilee Anniversary celebration.
Should the Lady Jags get to pull off the game against Argentina, it will be there first match at home since 2010 when they defeated Cuba at the GCC ground, Bourda to take the home-and-away series and become the first team from Guyana to qualify for the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
The Lady Jags, after their participation at the 2010 Gold Cup in Cancun Mexico, went on a five-year hiatus, with the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) being embroiled in controversy and the team was neglected.
It was not until the FIFA-installed Normalisation Committee was in place, that Rodrigues and his troops went back into battle in September of last year (2015) and began their journey to the Rio Olympics through the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Qualifiers.
“The new federation is working hard to ensure that the proper funding goes towards the women’s programme to continue and not let it die like it did in it 2010. They’re working feverishly to ensure that we play a few international friendly each year and possibly have some camps on a more regular basis so we will be a lot more prepared, ” Rodrigues told reporters.
Argentina are ranked 35th in the world by FIFA. Unlike their men’s national team, the women are not known to be as dominant and, given the fact that they haven’t played a match since March 2015, they could be a perfect match for the Lady Jags.