Overseas lady Jaguars race past locals
The overseas-based Guyanese team was way too much for the locals to handle as they sank them five goals to nil when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Women’s International Goodwill tournament kicked off yesterday. Playing at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence, Maria El Masri just 37 seconds into the game netted the tournament’s first [...]
Overseas-based players raring to go
After months of preparation, the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) Women’s International Goodwill tournament will kick off today at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence. The tournament will feature two Guyanese National teams, one locally based and one comprising overseas-based players, along with arch rivals Suriname. The aim of the tournament is to jump start Guyana’s [...]
‘It’s like I won the gold medal’
- King Pele on Brazil winning the right to stage the 2016 Olympic Games over the USA and other countries On October 2 this year in Copenhagen, Denmark, the world was stunned when President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) IOC Jacques Rogge announced that the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil had won [...]
‘Jackie Chan’ stars as Pele open title defence in style
- Grove Hi-Tech stun Milerock When Pele and international striker Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson told Stabroek Sport last week that he was going to put on a show at the National Stadium, this writer and I suppose many ardent readers of the sports pages were wondering just what he was going to do. They should [...]
Overseas and local coaches exited about Women’s tournament
Technical Director of the Women’s football programme for the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Mark Rodrigues, along with coach of the local female team Wayne ‘Wiggy’ Dover and overseas coaches Edwin De Rosario and Rohan Narine are all expressing their optimism for a successful Women’s Friendly International Tournament.The event which is set to commence Thursday with [...]
`King Pele’ – a treasure to the World
-Dr Frank Anthony Yesterday was a red-letter day in Guyana’s rich sporting history. It was the day when 69 year-old Edson Arantes de Nascimento, known to the world as `King Pele,’ touched down at the Dr. Cheddi Jagan International Airport at Timehri. Pele arrived at around 14:50 hours to fittingly, a red carpet welcome from [...]
Red Carpet welcome for ‘King of Football’
Known to world as ‘King Pele’ Brazilian football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento will receive a red carpet welcome to Guyana today when he arrives at 13:30 hours at the Dr. Cheddi Jagan International Airport. The 69 year-old Pele is here as the guest of honour of the Kashif and Shanghais Organisation which will stage [...]
GRFU did not adhere to protocol
-Says Minister Anthony Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony, says the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) did not adhere to protocol by informing his ministry of the success of the national men and women’s rugby Sevens sides at the recent North American and Caribbean Rugby Association tournament in Mexico but left it [...]
Lethem lady footballers appeal for tangible support
Talk about female football in Guyana and the conversation invariably drifts to the game in the Lethem, Rupununi area but conditions are not so bright and beautiful for the hinterland ladies as it relates to them playing the game which they call ‘their everything’. Seven ladies from Region Nine – Lorian Toney, Roxanne Stephens, Lioni [...]
Sports Ministry award contracts for $28.75M Racquet Centre
- facility to include two squash courts Three contracting companies were yesterday awarded separate contracts for building a Racquet Centre on Woodford Avenue, Georgetown which is expected to cost the Government of Guyana some $28.75m. The centre will include two squash courts which will cost $20.35m to build. Romell Jagroop’s General Construction Services has been [...]
`You are really lucky to have Pele here’
– TV Globo producer Special events producer of Globo Communicacao e Participacoes S.A (TV Globo) Francisco Trigo who, along with a three-man production team arrived in Guyana yesterday told local reporters that having `King’ Pele here was probably one of the biggest thing right now not only for Guyanese but for the millions of Brazilians [...]
It’s impossible for associations to operate independent of gov’t contribution
- says Colin Klass President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Colin Klass (CK) recently sat down and spoke exclusively with Stabroek Sports’ Rawle Toney (RT) about his satisfactions and certain misconceptions relating to football in Guyana. Of course they were several issues raised which the GFF boss chose to speak off the record but [...]
‘Jackie Chan’ takes a kick at Guyana’s football
On February 27 this year, Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson became the first Guyana footballer to play in the US Major League Soccer competition (MLS) when he signed a US$75,000 contract with the Colorado Rapids. Richardson though, for several reasons however, only appeared in one league match, playing 11 minutes as a substitute in the Rapids [...]
LABA and GABA call on GABF to hold elections
The presidents of the country’s two most active basketball associations Trevor Rose and Abdullah ‘Zico’ Hamid yesterday told Stabroek Sport that it was time that the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) holds elections. Since the passing earlier this year of former president Godwin McPherson, who had been at the helm of the sport since 1991, [...]
Cordis takes GFF, NAMILCO and Fruta Conquerors FC up the High Court steps
- Suing trio for in excess of $1,000,000 Former president of Riddim Squad Football Club, Eton Cordis has slapped the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Fruta Conquerors Football Club and the National Milling Company (NAMILCO) with a lawsuit in excess of $1,000, 000. The lawsuit comes in the wake of injuries sustained by Cordis who was [...]