President of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Troy Mendonca said yesterday he vividly recalled eating rice flour as a member of the national team during Colin Klass’s tenure as head of the governing body for football in Guyana.

“As a player I was in the national team under coach Edwin Joseph training in 1992 in Hopetown, Berbice when we were abandoned by the then Guyana Football Association under Mr. Klass.

“The residents of the Hopetown Community had to pool their resources to support us (we ate rice flour porridge with molasses in it) and after 16 years it’s the same thing,” Mendonca wrote in a letter to Head Coach Jamaal Shabazz.

Mendonca said he had managed to get a copy of Shabazz’s report and said judging from that report the situation was still the same.
“You must realise that Guyana Football is bigger than all of us and it’s time for you to speak,” Mendonca urged Shabazz.

Mendonca said that Shabazz’s report had been withheld from the General Council of the GFF which he said was in itself a travesty.