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Female footballers benefit as corporate entities donate much needed gears
One of the players, Jennel Brown, receives the gift from Mr. Shabazz on behalf of the team
Sports administrators, cognizant of the importance of support towards the effective implementation of developmental initiatives, are constantly appealing for corporate intervention to achieve projected aims and objectives. It was with this in mind that members of the football fraternity expressed deep appreciation to the management of the Guyana Sports Development Foundation (GSDF), Scotia Bank and Demerara Distillers Ltd when officials from those institutions donated gears including footballs, boots and water bottles to participants of the Scotia Bank/Pepsi School Football Academy Female All Stars Football Team at the Georgetown Football Club Ground, yesterday morning.
Head coach of the Golden Jaguars, Jamal Shabazz handed over the gears to the female players on behalf of Colin Baker of the GSDF and the two other sponsors and expressed gratitude to his benefactors for having faith in the programme. He also commended the players for their receptiveness to his directives during training while advocating that they can only get better. He urged them to always be disciplined, punctual and attentive to the coaches while implementing the strategies learned. The national coach implored the players to care the equipment which could encourage additional gestures from the corporate community.
Mr. Shabazz noted that females have always been excellent custodians of equipment, citing experiences with female players out of Trinidad & Tobago as classical examples. “You must aspire to emulate the Trinidadians,” he urged.
Mr. Shabazz also expressed gratitude to the management of the GFC for acquiescing to the use of their ground to facilitate training sessions. He further thanked the parents for allowing the girls to be a part of the programme while expressing the hope that by 2013 a large percentage of them would comprise a part of the squad representing Guyana in the CFU U17 Female WC Qualifier.
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