By News Source Guyana on January 1, 2014
Sports
By Rawle Toney Georgetown, Guyana – After spending 22 years as President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Colin Klass was banned by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) for 26 months and fined US$5,537 for his involvement in the Bin Hammam “cash for votes” scandal. Since August 11, 2011, Klass could not be close to […]
By News Source Guyana on December 30, 2013
Sports
Heavy rainfall over the past week coupled with a soggy ground has forced the Georgetown Football Association to postpone the finals for its GFA/Banks Beer tournament which was scheduled for January 1 at the GCC Ground Bourda. The development clears the way for one major senior football finals on New Years day and the Upper […]
By News Source Guyana on December 30, 2013
Sports
“So far so good, but we have a job to do still, which is to win on January 1” exclaimed Charles ‘Lilly’ Pollard, coach of the Slingerz Football Club who will take on Santos in the finals of the 3rd Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Banks Beer Knock out tournament on New Year’s Day. Slingerz got […]
By News Source Guyana on December 21, 2013
Sports
President of the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA), Regional Chairman Sharma Solomon says that the people of Linden will have football on January 1, contrary to what the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and its General Council has instructed. Under the newly launched Banks GT Beer, 14 clubs from Linden are doing battle to see who […]
By News Source Guyana on December 21, 2013
Sports
The USA’s Major League Soccer (MLS) Super Star Dwayne De Rosario is expected to arrive in Guyana tomorrow and will conduct a coaching clinic with 52 children between the ages of 10 and 18 years at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground on Sunday December 22. De Rosario, whose parents are Guyanese, has never visited Guyana […]
By News Source Guyana on December 16, 2013
Sports
Upon granting the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) the permission to host its GT Beer Knock out tournament, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has instructed that the Finals cannot be held on New Year’s Day (January 1). The UDFA partnered with Banks DIH under its newly launched beer to stage a return of year-end football […]
By News Source Guyana on December 14, 2013
Sports
“Wednesday December 11, 2013 marks the rebirth of Region 10 football…OUR football…OUR players…OUR fans…OUR ground…OUR thing. For too long Linden has suffered without its beloved game occurring at a time to which we have grown accustomed. For too long, this MSC Ground has stood silent…its stands empty…at the beginning of each year” The words of Regional Chairman and President of the Upper Demerara Football Association […]
By News Source Guyana on December 1, 2013
Sports
To be the best, you have to beat the best; it’s one of the most common saying in sports and according to famed National Player Walter Moore, Slingerz Football Club can easily beat the best Football team in Guyana – Alpha United. For the past five years, Alpha ‘the Hammer’ United is ‘the’ team to […]
By News Source Guyana on November 1, 2013
News, Sports
It had all the fanfare as customary for the past 23 years; all the various media houses were present, sponsors and Government, but only this time around, it’s for school’s football as Kashif and Shanghai launched its inaugural Secondary School tournament at the Pegasus Hotel on Thursday. Twenty Four teams, drawn from across Guyana will […]
By News Source Guyana on November 1, 2013
Sports
By Rawle Toney Could this be the end of a 23 year-old tradition, or the dawn of a new era for the Kashif and Shanghai Organization? Once considered the ‘Holy Grail’ of local football, the Kashif and Shanghai Football Tournament stood alone and was Guyana’s premier sporting event, but just like time, things changed. A […]