By Rawle Toney

JALADE Trim, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) junior female football player-of-the-year for 2017, will be joining players from 211 countries in Russia as one of Guyana’s representatives at the 2018 Football for Friendship.

The 10-day event (June 5-15) will see the young and aspiring football players being divided into groups, forming 32 teams, in the programme which encourages them to play the game while upholding the values of friendship, equality, peace and respect.

Organised by official partner of FIFA and major sponsor of the World Cup Russia 2018, Gazprom, Football for Friendship will climax in Moscow, as an exciting curtain-raiser to the World Cup.

Meanwhile, yesterday, Managing Director of Mohamed’s Enterprise, Nazar Mohamed, made a contribution to Trim’s mother, Finola, to assist in her travel to accompany her daughter to the prestigious event.

Mohamed encouraged the budding player to keep working hard and stated that he was happy to play a part in helping to allow her mother to accompany her to Russia so that she could see her daughter live her dream.

Trim (Jalade), is touted as the future of women’s football in Guyana and had represented the ‘Lady Jags’ in the CFU U-17 women’s tournament, as well as playing at the Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) in Suriname.

The GFF will make known the other details with regard to Guyana’s representation at the Football for Friendship programme in Russia.

The Football for Friendship programme is described as the perfect example of how football can be used to open doors for girls and boys from all backgrounds – a mission that FIFA supports actively.

The Football for Friendship tournament features 32 international teams of friendship, named after endangered animals, featuring players from different countries, different gender and different physical abilities.

Players are 12 years old and will be trained by young coaches aged 14-16. The tournament will be covered by global media including Children’s Press Centre of 12-year-old journalists.