TWO staff members of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) participated in the October 25-26 FIFA Connect workshop which was held in Bridgetown, Barbados.

Competitions Director Ian Alves, and Coaching Education Officer Lyndon France represented the GFF at the seminar, which sought “to explain the FIFA Connect programme to the invited FIFA Member Associations and allow them to participate in the testing and training on the FIFA Connect Platform registration system.”

The FIFA Connect Programme is a virtual database, which helps every Member Association to register all their stakeholders in a systematic way including players, coaches and referees wherever they are in the world. It provides each registrant a unique identification code to enable easy management while aiding issues relative to receiving compensation for international transfers and ensuring protection of minors.

Among the areas to be discussed at the seminar are: FIFA Connect programme concept and principles, training and testing sessions on the FIFA Connect Platform, presentation of the support and user guides, and handover of the access to the system.

According to a FIFA correspondence, at the end of the workshop each participating member association will receive “dedicated access to its registration system enabling registration of clubs, players, coaches, referees and officials.”

The programme, being facilitated by FIFA Connect Support and Implementation Officers, Mitchell Woods and Edison Gomez, is featuring participants from Aruba, Barbados, Curacao, Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Turks and Caicos and Trinidad and Tobago.