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Following thorough preparation, confident beach footballers leave for world cup qualifiers
Mark Xavier
Rollin Tappin
Guyanese premiere football team, the Golden Jaguar has inspired the hopes of local football authorities and the nation as a whole following several top performances at the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers.
Despite this, the team was ousted at the quarterfinals stage after losing to Mexico in the USA.
Now, less than one year after that unfortunate turn of events, local footballers, this time those that play the beach format of the sport, will once again attempt to bring glory to this nation when a 15 man team that consists of 12 players and 3 officials depart Guyana on May 5th next to participate in the CONCACAF beach football world cup qualifiers scheduled for Nassau Bahamas, May 8-12 next. The twelve players are: Michael Wilson, Darrel George, Travis Bess, Jarmaine Grandison, Claude Dennis, Keon Sears, Ron Fiedtkou, Marmarlaque Davidson, Odil Allicock, Omeion Wills, Gerald Blair and Colric Beckles.
The Manager/Team Administrator is Mark Xavier, while Abdulla Hamid and Rollin Tappin are the coach and assistant coach respectively.
Last Friday morning Mr. Xavier and Mr. Tappin visited our Saffon Street office and exuded confidence in the team. They said that the squad of players have been working extremely hard and are fit and ready to represent Guyana.
Mr. Tappin told Kaieteur Sport that the team has been christened ‘Golden Sand Jaguars’ and they will be going all out to win their respective matches and go on to represent Guyana at the World Cup tournament.
The locals will be thrown into the deep from their very first game, two days after arriving in the Bahamas, on May 8, when they oppose CONCACAF champions, Mexico. That game commences at 17:00hrs (local time). The local ball weavers will then play Canada on April 9 starting at 14:00hrs before opposing Trinidad and Tobago one day later, starting at 12 noon.
Guyana is making its debut at this competition as well as Trinidad and Tobago.
They will join several other countries in the tournament and are attempting to qualify for the Beach Football World Cup Championships scheduled for Tahiti in September.
The other participating countries are Canada, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Bahamas, Guatemala and the United States of America. Two teams will eventually qualify for the Tahiti tournament.
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