WOMEN footballers would soon take their pent-up skills to the pitch when a Development League for Member Associations (MAs) of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) gets underway.Each respective MA will run off its competition to determine the winner who will advance to the grand finale of the tournament, which is being partly funded by the world governing body FIFA.
GFF PRO Debra Francis told Chronicle Sport yesterday that “the plan is to kick off the tournament before the end of this month”.
Additional sponsorship is currently being sought by the GFF for this inaugural competition.
Meanwhile president of the Women FA (WFA) Charmaine Wade, in an invited comment, said that while she has heard of the plans nothing official has been sent to the WFA. Wade added that since being voted into office, last year November, her executive tried to get an audience with the former Technical Director of the GFF on the way forward for women football but all attempts proved unsuccessful.
According to Wade, a proposal plan for 2016 has been sent to the GFF and “hopefully we can sit with the GFF at some point and solidify a plan for women football”. (Ras Wadada)