Year one of restructuring, progress

Members of the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) junior teams being put through the paces by team manager Faizal Khan (left) during a training session at the club’s Bourda locale

Georgetown Football Club (GFC) team manager Faizal Khan believes the elevation of younger players to the senior ranks alongside the hard-work deployed by first team coach Vurlon Mills, are the main reasons behind the club’s rise in 2014.

Speaking in an exclusive interview, he said “We have given youth a chance and on many occasions ahead of some senior players at times. Sorry to say but GFC has a number one rule, if you don’t train, you don’t play.”

Khan, who is currently out of the jurisdiction said:” I think in Guyana for too long we have been accustomed to a club football culture where our more talented ballers don’t train all week and then turn up five minutes before the game and start. We are never going to develop a league environment here in