Junior Lady Jags did very well – GFF Technical Director

THE country’s Under-15 girls’ side suffered its only loss in the finals of round 1 of League C in the CONCACAF championship played in Aruba to exit the tournament.

The young ladies loss their final encounter 2-1 to Aruba at the Guillermo Prospero Trinidad stadium in Aruba.
It was the local’s only blemish in four games after drawing the first and winning the next two matches.

The tournament was played in the Swiss format with the top four teams advancing, if Guyana had beaten Aruba they would have advanced into the final round set to be played on Sunday.

Technical Director of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Bryan Joseph, said the performance from the ladies was ‘very very well. I think in terms of their overall performance. When we looked at the other teams that we played against, we basically dominated all those teams but we just didn’t put away our chances. We would have created the most chances and dominated; only in the last game against Aruba we would have conceded, so I was feeling good; we would have made it into the final round.’

He said Aruba showed resilience to make a comeback. ‘They put in a performance in the last half of the final game and ended up winning obviously because we were not taking out chances; we didn’t have sufficient goals to qualify but tremendous effort from all the girls, the locals did exceptionally well along with the international girls and I believe we have a really good group going forward.’

On the opening day, on Tuesday last, Guyana drew with Turks and Caicos Islands nil all.

The local ladies led by a Sydney Glean goal secured a needle win over Guadeloupe 1-nil on Wednesday

They also showed their skills to secure a 3-nil victory against St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Thursday.

Guyana finished fifth in their group. Aruba top the group, ahead of St Lucia, Turks and Caicos, Guadeloupe who occupy the top four positions.