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‘Golden Jags’ performance propels Guyanese to support football

Nov 28, 2011 Sports

With strings of positive results from Guyana’s National Football team, ‘Golden Jaguars’ in the CONCACAF FIFA World Cup 2014 Brazil Qualifiers, Guyana will now be able to compete against the bigger guns (Mexico, Costa Rica and El Salvador) next year in the third stage of the qualifiers with their first match set for Mexico.
The historic slaughter of the Twin Island, Trinidad and Tobago at the Guyana National Stadium on that Friday (11.11.11) saw Ricky Shakes (10th) who plays for Ebbsfleet United in the Conference National and Leon Cort (81st) who plays for Charlton Athletic Club, registering the two ‘blood drawing’ goals for Guyana.
Kashif and Shanghai’s organizer, Kashif Muhammad who collaborated with the Guyana Football Federation in urging the football lovers and supporters to sport the golden colour, yellow, on the day of play said that the Golden Jaguars win against Trinidad and Tobago’s Soca Warriors was a God sent situation for Guyana since it is years Guyana have not been able to climbed to this level in Football; “It was a David and Goliath situation,” he said.
Muhammad further added that the players received just what they requested for, the twelfth man’s presence and with that win they have replenished Guyana in a solid way in positioning football back into Guyana’s world as it used to be years ago.
The Kashif and Shanghai Organiser, speaking on the twelfth man’s presence at the Guyana National Stadium said that they (crowd/twelfth man) believed in the players and they knew that they (Golden Jaguars) would have won.
He added that the twelfth man turn out at the World Cup Qualifiers was an excellent start for Guyana and it would be great to continue witnessing a momentum like that in the future as football prevails in our country.
After defeating Trinidad and Tobago on habitat soil, the Golden Jaguars lost their first match in the qualifiers in Twin Island on their return game fielding an under strength team.
Guyana will face Mexico, Costa Rica and El Salvador in the final qualifying stage of the CONCACAF World Cup Qualifiers starting June. (Juanita Hooper)

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